•PPP leaders insist that BISP data is best suited for flooding
•Maryam says Punjab is working, while other provinces are busy criticizing it
• 2,200 investigation teams, with 10,000 people from the Army, and other departments are deployed in the province
•Azma Bokhari threatens to sue Nadeem Afzal Chan for loan claims
Islamabad/Lahore: Punjab government launched an investigation on Saturday to assess losses caused by recent floods, and PPP announced Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif accepts his acceptance Require Provide immediate relief to people affected by floods through the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP).
Centre and PML-N and PPP-COALITION partners in Punjab Odds In the case of how to help flood victims, the former Punjab government insisted on using its own resources, while the last insisted on guiding assistance through BISP.
PPP Secretary General Humayun Khan, Senator Palwasha Khan and the party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa leader Muhammad Ali Shah Bacha spoke at a press conference in Islamabad, saying that BISP already has the data needed and is the most effective. Assisting flooded families.
Humayun Khan said people were suffering the highest hardship due to flooding, recalling PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari visited the flood-affected areas in Punjab and reiterated the immediate need through BISP.
Palwasha Khan expressed regret for some PML-N ministers’ “unfortunate remarks” about the PPP, albeit a coalition partner. “It is regrettable that the Punjab government has already used this language for its alliance partners. The Punjab government said it would not bow to anyone. Then why go to the IMF? The impression of Punjab belonging to a political party is that no province is the exclusive area of any political party.
She offered, waving the electricity bills of flooded families until they fully recovered. She said the scale of damage caused by the flood is huge and cannot be fully estimated.
She recalled that BISP funds had previously paid for the legs during Ramazan Holy Month and asked, “Why does Bisp’s name cause so much pain?”
She did not elaborate that when the chief minister of Punjab faced a challenge, “the most supportive voices came from double Raval Bhutto Zardari and PPP”.
Ali Shah Bacha criticized not only PML-N, but also PTI’s Khyber Pakhtunkwa government for calling it ruled in the province for the past 12 years, but said it failed to help flood victims. He said flood On KP, it is essentially different from those in Punjab and Sindh, as they are caused by cloud outbreaks that eliminate entire villages and kill hundreds of people.
“The Prime Minister and the Chief Minister had only one day, distributed the checks and left,” Bacha said.
He added: “The Chief Minister of Punjab said they don’t need the advice of PPP. But when the PML-N government is in trouble, it remembers PPP and its leadership. When PML-N wants a bill, it becomes Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.”
He said: “If Maryam Nawaz is the daughter of Nawaz Sharif, then don’t forget that Bilawal Bhutto is the son of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and the grandson of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.”
Flood Loss Investigation
The Punjab government has launched an investigation to assess the losses suffered due to recent floods, but avoid giving any timelines to complete exercises or start paying compensation to over four million affected residents.
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“We will make sure every flood victim is compensated and relocated. These investigation teams are my eyes, ears and hands,” she said.
The Chief Minister indirectly responded to PTI and PPP’s criticism of what they called “flood photo/video shooting”, and the Chief Minister said: “If someone is working, the camera should show it because the public should know what its CM is.
She said Punjab was working, while other provinces were busy criticizing it. The chief minister said she was often asked how to deal with criticism. “I say Punjab is progressing, which is why there is criticism. We have closed our ears of negativeness and kept our eyes on our targets,” she said, adding that people from other provinces want to live in Punjab.
She thanked Pir Pagara for thanking the flood management in Punjab.
CM criticized PPP for recommending the use of BISP databases to help people affected by floods. “It is not good to allocate Rs 10,000 to everyone affected by the flood through BISP data,” she said.
PPP leadership, including MNA Aseefa Bhutto-Zardari, urged the Punjab government to use BISP data instead of conducting a large number of investigations to provide immediate relief to flood victims.
Tensions in loans
As the dispute between the two alliance partners on the BISP issue continues, PPP senior leader Nadeem Afzal Chan said on X: “Punjab has become the largest borrower of all provinces, receiving a loan of Rs 4,050 crore from the state bank in the first 38 days (July 1 to August 8, 2025) (2025-26) (2025-26).
Punjab Information Minister Azma Bokhari responded to the claim and threatened to prosecute Mr. Chen under the Defamation Act and the Electronic Crime Prevention Act (PECA).
“Chan Sahib, you are a decent person, but over the past few days you seem to be under mental stress or intentionally falsely hype about Punjab,” she said. Ms. Bokhari added that under the Punjab Defamation Act, Mr. Chen had to provide “fabricated news” in court.
Posted in Dawn on September 28, 2025
