Pakistan to provide $5m food grant to Rohingya camps

[Kabira]

ISLAMABAD: A cabinet committee formed to tackle issues over the plight of Rohingya Muslims has decided on a $5 million grant in the form of food to be channelled through the World Food Program for distribution in Rohingya camps in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand.

Pakistan will also appeal to the United Nations to impress upon the Myanmar government to grant Rohingya Muslims equal citizenship rights and ensure the protection of the oppressed minority community.

Recommendations to intensify diplomatic efforts in this regard were made by the special committee— comprising Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Adviser to the Prime Minister on Foreign Affairs and National Security Sartaj Aziz and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Tariq Fatmi— which were approved by PM Nawaz Sharif.

Read more: PM Nawaz forms cabinet committee on relief efforts for Rohingya

According to the committee's recommendations, the prime minister will write a letter to the United Nations Secretary General, as well as the President of the UN Security Council, highlighting the humanitarian crisis and asking for further intensification of diplomatic and moral pressure on the Myanmar government to grant adequate citizenship rights to the Rohingya community in accordance with international humanitarian laws.

Simultaneously, the adviser to the prime minister will address another letter to the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Secretary General to propose the creation of a special OIC fund to provide food and other assistance to Rohingya Muslims who have left Myanmar and also those still living there.

The committee will also attempt to sensitise the international community to encourage greater assistance in all forms to the Rohingya Muslims, who are neither claimed by their government nor given shelter in neighbouring countries.

Read more: Pakistan expresses concern at plight of Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims

In addition, Pakistan will propose the establishment of a three-member committee of OIC foreign ministers who will travel to Myanmar in order to impress upon the Myanmar government to restore fundamental rights of the Rohingya community so they can live peacefully without fear of persecution.

Nisar vehemently pleaded the case of the Rohingya Muslims and raised the issue twice during the last two cabinet meetings.

The plight of the Rohingyas evoked immediate response from the prime minister and cabinet members and it was decided that a committee led by the interior minister would be constituted to chalk out an effective response to the issue.

Pakistan to provide $5m food grant to Rohingya camps - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

 

[ito]

Rohinga want a country to call their own and not money.

 

[Jaanbaz]

Rohinga want a country to call their own and not money.

Why don't you guys help them if you feel sorry for them, Isn't India all cosy with Burma?

 

[Mujahid Memon]

WTF, there is ethnic cleansing and here only $5 million. I would call it "ount k munh me zeera". Even this is also shameless.

why cant we do something for these people. I am feeling ashamed as a Pakistani
plz plz plz help them plz

 

[Dubious]

why cant we do something for these people. I am feeling ashamed as a Pakistani

coz we are not a rich nation and we are run by corrupts even if we get donations, it is not even funny that some ends up in people's stomach

 

[Mujahid Memon]

coz we are not a rich nation and we are run by corrupts even if we get donations, it is not even funny that some ends up in people's stomach

It is sad that we even helped afghans although it was afghan-vs-afghan war, but we cant help people who are being ethnically cleansed, and a big shameful slap on those faces who provide all their resources to support muslim-vs-muslim, arab-vs-arab, shia-vs-sunni wars, but cant help a community from being ethnically cleansed

 

[Dubious]

It is sad that we even helped afghans although it was afghan-vs-afghan war, but we cant help people who are being ethnically cleansed, and a big shameful slap on those faces who provide all their resources to support muslim-vs-muslim, arab-vs-arab, shia-vs-sunni wars, but cant help a community from being ethnically cleansed

"helping" Afghanis was easy coz it was next door...Not with India in between, we wouldnt notice if their people dressed as Rohingya and tried to ruin our country so it is tough ...It is not like we arent helping...there was an announcement to help...Prob coz we will be paid to keep refugees...

It is rather shame on India to not offer help to the victims but instead stay silence with the perpetrators ....And then they have the audacity to lecture us!

 

[Echo_419]

WTF, there is ethnic cleansing and here only $5 million. I would call it "ount k munh me zeera". Even this is also shameless.

why cant we do something for these people. I am feeling ashamed as a Pakistani
plz plz plz help them plz

Ohh sare Muslmano ka theka Pakistan me uthaa rakha hai kya

 

[DJ Crudept]

how much by Indian Muslims ?

 

[IceCold]

Ohh sare Muslmano ka theka Pakistan me uthaa rakha hai kya

Haan rakha ha tujha koi masla ha?

 

[Mujahid Memon]

Ohh sare Muslmano ka theka Pakistan me uthaa rakha hai kya

Its rather humanity than Islam

 

[Peaceful Civilian]

We already surviving on loans. ..This is big amount for aid and good for humanity.

 

[Echo_419]

Its rather humanity than Islam

Appne logo me saath hai humanity year sirf unke saath he hai PK like India has a lot of domestic problems to tackel & should focus on them

 

[Dubious]

Why is it shame for india.. india is not part of ummah ... what you ppl have done till now, instead of propaganda do some solid th8ng..
Give them citizenship ... and don't bring India in everything...not good...

If you dont want india to be in it, wipe india off the map

because sadly india is part of humanity and a neighbour ...so shamelessly talking

Super power my foot...first be human..You dont have to be "ummah" (I know how butt hurt that word is coz you lot use it and bring it in alot) ...You just need to be a human ....

Oh unless you are saying you guys really arent human, Sorry my bad for thinking you were

Give them citizenship? WHY? THEY have ancestral land...As for propaganda you dont get to talk....neighbours like you should die of shame!

 

[TheFlyingPretzel]

WTF, there is ethnic cleansing and here only $5 million. I would call it "ount k munh me zeera". Even this is also shameless.

why cant we do something for these people. I am feeling ashamed as a Pakistani
plz plz plz help them plz

I too am feeling ashamed that you are a Pakistani.

I can understand that selflessness is a commendable trait but I am reminded of how it hasn't served Pakistan well.

We've selflessly sheltered Afghan refugees for the past 3 decades only to wake up to the realization that in this world, the bond of being Muslim is among the most weakest of associations. Pakistan's national interests do not allow her the luxury of extending unbridled financial support to the Rohingyas. As a nation we offer our sympathies and the little help that we can. We are not the champions of the rights of Muslims everywhere. That would be Saudi Arabia, the exporter of the Islamic faith.

We are ajamis who have adopted the faith only to find that it comes with a host of sectarian fault-lines which Saudi Arabia has failed to control. As a matter of fact we have also inherited an ideological war which we have only barely now contained on our soil, which has effectively torn the middle east to shreds. As a Muslim-majority nation we have suffered a great deal and have also been ashamed to learn that our Arab "brother" states have selfishly watched our agony from the sidelines and, on multiple, occasions refused to offer remedial assistance. Despite their vast amount of wealth Pakistan has received little benefit from them whereas we have had to repeatedly bend over backwards to accommodate their problems.

I think it is time we called the spade for what it is.

I was overly joyed when the Parliament decided not to accept Saudi's call for a military campaign in Yemen. The Arabs don't know what they're doing (as is undoubtedly explicit from the condition of their kingdoms and states) and they are taking all the world's Muslims down with them. The Muslim countries who are not participating in the bloodshed (and the hopelessly mangled pan-Islamic politics) also happen to be the states which are amongst the most prosperous and the most progressive i.e Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia.

Please rid yourself of the notion that it is our Islamic duty to help the Rohingyas. It is not. As fellow human beings we offer them what little help we can.