HYDERABAD, Oct 16: Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal MNA Asadullah Bhutto has said that recent meeting of the National Security Council convened to take decisions for the rehabilitation of the earthquake victims was unconstitutional.

He said that the proper and constitutional step was to take the National Assembly into confidence on the important issue.

He was speaking at the “Youm-i-Babul Islam” function organized by the Jamaat-i-Islami here on Saturday.

MPA Younis Bawani, former MPA and district president of the MMA, Abdul Waheed Qureshi, Shaikh Shaukat Ali and Dr Fawad Ahmed also spoke on the occasion.

Mr Bhutto said the nation was in grief on the colossal loss but the government had failed to take prompt measures for providing relief to earthquake victims.

He said had the government immediately launched search and rescue operation, many lives could have been saved.

He said the MMA, like Mohammad Bin Qasim, was fighting against the secular rulers.

He claimed the Jamaat and its affiliated wings were serving the victims of the natural calamity in Azad Kashmir and the NWFP.

The MMA legislator said thousands of JI workers were engaged in providing help and succour to the earthquake victims in the hilly tracks.

He said it were the Jamaat’s doctors who had first reached Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Rawalakot, Balakot, Mansehra and Abbotabad and established mobile hospitals.

Mr Bhutto inspected the relief goods collected by Jamaat-i-Islami and Al-Kidmat worth tens of thousands of rupees which included beddings, clothes, medicines and other items.

He dispatched the relief goods in a big container to the affected areas.

FUND RAISING: The district relief committee for earthquake has collected Rs213,000 cash from shops, houses and factories while different political parties have also collected relief goods at their camps.

A district relief committee was constituted at a meeting in the DCO office here on Saturday.

UC nazims, Abdul Ghaffar Khero, Haji Khan Surhyo and Ghulam Mustafa Brohi, DDO coordination Aziz Ahmed Barlas, DDO revenue Riaz Ahmed Massan, Hesco executive engineer Ghulam Hussain Samoo, EDO health Dr Dhani Bux Thebo, EDO education Prof Jaleel Ahmed Akhund and journalists Qurban Ali Khushik and Pervez Narejo were made members of the committee.

Committee members went door-to-door in the Fish Market, Rai Bazaar, Station road, Kutchehry road, Shaheed Makhdoom Bilawal road, petrol pumps, factories and offices and collected Rs213,000 cash and other items for earthquake victims.