RAWALPINDI: President Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami AJK, Sardar Ijaz Afzal Khan, has said Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA) is adding insult to the injuries of quake affectees.

Talking to various delegations of the quake affectees here, he said that ERRA was more complicating problems of the affectees and torturing them instead of facilitating them. He said that demanding submission of applications for third and final installment of aid for construction of houses is tantamount to deriding the affectees.

He said all the money should have been paid in one installment so that the affectees could have constructed their houses with ease. On the contrary such a method for providing the aid was adopted that has been deemed as a severely torture to the affectees, he added. The MMA leader said that ERRA and SERRA first proposed a design and then changed it; as a result the affectees had to demolish the newly constructed houses and then reconstructed these in accordance with the changed designs.

Mr. Khan urged ERRA not to demand bonds of the affectess for getting the aid as it would manifold problems of the helpless people, many of whom are widows and children. He warned ERRA to change its behavior otherwise the affected people would have no option other than staging protests and JI will join them for corrective action.