LAHORE A writ petition has been filed in the Lahore High Court seeking directions to the Punjab government for taking action against the officials involved in non-implementation of the Flood Commission Report, prepared by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah in 2010, containing recommendations to avoid floods and its aftereffects. The Human Safety Commission of Pakistan (HSCP) through its Chairman Pir Muhammad Ali Gilani Advocate also requested the LHC to issue order to government to implement the judicial commission in letter and spirit. The petitioner said that in these days floods are damaging public property, livestock, agriculture and health of the people of Punjab like every year in the past. As per Punjab Flood Relief statistics, rains and floods have again killed 17 people in the province, while 533 are hospitalised, 2,939 have skin infection, 1,686 severe fever cases, 619,534 animals displaced and agriculture of 2,527 villages destroyed or damaged. The HSCP stated that the flood victims were again in trouble and homeless but the government was just conducting meeting after meeting like every year but showing no result. Following 2010 heavy floods in Punjab, the government has ordered a judicial inquiry. The Flood Inquiry Tribunal 2010 headed by Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah had described comprehensively causes of breach and gave cogent recommendations to stop the destructions of flood in future years but unfortunately the Punjab government was busy on other projects and paid no attention to these valuable recommendations of the honourable Flood Tribunal, and the report was in dustbin like other judicial reports, Chairman Pir Muhammad Ali Gilani added. The petitioner said that government must have found the solution to stop the floods forever on the basis of inquiry and findings of the flood tribunal, and action must have been taken against the government functionaries who had not implemented the said report. Making the chief minister, chief secretary and other secretaries party in the instant petition, the petitioner has requested the LHC to order criminal proceedings under sections 166,167,283,322,427 and 431 of PPC against them for disobeying law with intent to cause injury to public at large, responsible for the deaths as mentioned on their official website and commit mischief by injury to public roads, bridges, rivers.
