‘As if troubles have seen the way of their home’

http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/196701/

December 12, 2012

Farooq Mehsud
D.I. KHAN: Tall claims of the government and the so called humanitarian organizations of helping internally displaced persons (IDPs) seems to be mere pomp and show when I visited an unfortunate family living in a tent house about 20 kilometers west of Tank city, with five members blind and one physically disabled due to polio disease but the ill fated family is still out of the sights of the government and scores of the NGOs who have grabbed billion of rupees in the name of IDPs. The poor family has not even got any help in the repatriation operation "Naveed e Sahar" and has to wait for the alms and charities of the locality.
Let's see the inside story of the family called the family of the blinds. An IDP family, from the Kot kai area of South Waziristan, is now living in a tent in the outskirts of district Tank, and faced the hell of life. Gul Nar Jan, 45, blind for the last six years and even his son Awal Mir, a polio patient and his blind- brother Obaidollah Jan 25, Usman Ghani 30, all dependent on one female, the wife of Gull Nar Jan, for their livelihood as there is no male left capable enough to go outside and earn for his family.
"We are living a very difficult life and dependent on the alms of other people, because we are not physically fit to earn livelihood" told Gul Nar Jan to The Frontier Post while telling his sad story. "I am the elder of the family, but physically unfit to support the family and even there is no one other in our family to fulfill the basic needs of our family. My eight years old son Awal mir, a polio patient, is unable to do any kind of work, so we have no way, but to beg" Goll Nar Jan shared with The Frontier Post.
The unfortunate family, living in a tent in Boltan Abad, about 20 km west of the Tank city is lagging behind the government or non-government aid, "One of our relatives brought some aid which he said was from political administration for us, a mattress and some Rashan, because we ourselves cannot go and even, I do not have the National Identity Card, on the basis of which, I can receive aid. We have not received any other kind of aid from government except mattress and some rashan of one time. We are living for the last three years in different areas and facing difficult conditions, Gul continued saying that they need help, if there is some who can help, please come and help us, said Gull Nar Jan with tearing eyes to The Frontier Post.
Bakhtawar Jan, a relative of Gol Nar Jan, told The Frontier Post, " They have no one to care, adding he purchases all their grocery, and support them financially, Political Administration and NGOs are silent on their issue."
When The Frontier Post contacted, FDMA south Waziristan head Said Umar Mehsud, to have his comments on the problems of the blind family he responded thus," we have given them some Aid and we submitted their Data for Further assistance and for National Identity card so that they can get IDPs benefits"
Any how what the case may be, it is a fact that the poor family abounding in handicapped has not been helped by any one so far and is perhaps the most deserving one.
Human organizations, NGOs and government institutions responsible for such like things must have to visit the family and extend their help as the weather is getting harsh and harsh day by day but the poor family of Gul Narjan has to bear the brunt of the weather and if not supported properly. It is feared that the family can face health problems due to lack of proper food and lodging.