Turkish people have raised funds to help their flood-hit Pakistani brethren and a sum of US $138 million would be spent to construct 4,620 homes in the flood-hit parts of the country in South Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan. This was stated by the officials in a briefing to the Prime Minister, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani after the PM formally opened construction work of New Muzaffargarh City Project and similar initiatives for Jampur and Fazalpur areas of district Rajanpur.
The three projects are part of the Turkish humanitarian initiative for Pakistani flood-hit people. The Prime Minister pushed a button to activate heavy construction equipment that started preparing concrete to initiate the construction work. Turkish ambassador to Pakistan Mustafa Babur Hizlan was also present in the ceremony.
The New Muzaffargarh City project would comprise 1274 houses over a 432-kanal piece of land in the city's suburbs. 500 houses would be built in Fazalpur and another 346 in Jampur areas of Rajanpur district. The cost of the projects in Rajanpur, and Muzaffargarh districts was estimated at US $65 million.
Another 2,000 homes would be built in Shikarpur (Sindh) and 500 in Dera Allah Yar (Balochistan) and the overall cost on the five projects being undertaken in Muzaffargarh, Rajanpur, Sindh and Balochistan was estimated at US $138 million. The work on the initiative was launched in March 2011 and it would be completed in 700 days by February 2013. Each residential unit would have two rooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, a courtyard and a veranda.
The Prime Minister thanked the Turkish government and its people for extending help to Pakistan's flood-affected communities and added that the two nations were tied in a historical friendship. He said that Turkey would build 4,620 residential units for the flood-affected people of Pakistan.
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