Modi offers assistance for PoK flood relief

September 07, 2014 05:07 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 05:49 pm IST - New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a review meeting on the flood situation with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other officials in Jammu on Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi holds a review meeting on the flood situation with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and other officials in Jammu on Sunday.

In a humanitarian gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on offered all possible assistance to Pakistan for carrying out relief operations in the flood-ravaged Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (PoK).

Making the offer after undertaking a visit to flood-hit Jammu and Kashmir for a first-hand assessment of the situation, Mr. Modi expressed his anguish at the loss that has been caused in PoK.

“In this hour of distress, the Prime Minister offered all possible assistance to the people of the region and said that the Government of India was ready to provide humanitarian assistance to those areas if the Pakistan government needs it,” a PMO statement said.

Mr. Modi said like in Jammu and Kashmir, the people in PoK region too were bearing losses due to the floods. This is a humanitarian work and India will never be behind in doing such work, he said.

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