The Ministry of Finance has opened an account for the Gaza-Lebanon Relief Fund.
According to the report of Dawn News, the Ministry of Finance has issued a letter to open an account for the Gaza-Lebanon Relief Fund, in which it is said that funds under the fund can be deposited in all scheduled banks including State Bank and National Bank.
According to the post, the Gaza-Lebanon Relief Fund will be managed by NDMA.
It should be noted that yesterday the Federal Cabinet approved the establishment of the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund to help the victims of Israeli atrocities in Palestine and Lebanon.
The approval was given in a federal cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad. The cabinet had also issued necessary instructions to the State Bank for opening an account for this purpose.
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal will oversee aid operations for Palestine and Lebanon.
The prime minister had instructed us to formulate the plan for an aid program for Palestine in three days and said that we had to be mobilized as a nation to help the Palestinian brothers under the control of the Zionist forces.
The government is repatriating 71 Pakistani citizens stranded in Lebanon through Damascus.
During the briefing in the meeting, the prime minister was told that since October 2023, 10 consignments of medicines, food items, clothes, and other aid items containing 1810 tons have been sent to Palestine by Pakistan, and more Pakistani citizens have been sent home from war-torn areas. Steps are being taken to bring it back.
The Prime Minister had directed the government of Pakistan to formulate an action plan for the aid program for Palestine within three days.
He had said that we have to mobilize as a nation to help the Palestinian brothers under the control of the Zionist forces.
The well-known NGOs of the country should be included in the aid activities, educational facilities should be provided to more students from Gaza in Pakistan.
Participation of educational institutions belonging to public and private sectors should be ensured in this activity.
It should be noted that 2 days ago, the ongoing Israeli aggression and ground and air attacks in Gaza completed one year, where about 42 thousand Palestinians were martyred and more than 100,000 people were injured during one year.
The government called the Multi-Party Conference (MPC) in solidarity with the Palestinian people, calling for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, holding Israel responsible for its genocidal actions. A stay was also demanded.
