RAWALPINDI: The district administration has finalised the
estimates of damage to private and public property during the Faizabad
sit-in.
In a report sent to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz
Sharif, a committee consisting of the revenue and building departments
and the Rawalpindi Municipal Corporation (RMC) said that the damage
caused to public and private property is estimated to be worth Rs40
million.
Damaged private property includes a CNG station
at Faizabad that faced Rs12m worth of damages, Rs100,000 worth of
damages to a furniture and fibre market, Rs91,000 worth of damages to a
grocery store and Rs1.4m worth of damages to Crescent Furniture, a shop
near the home of former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan.
Damaged public property includes Rs26m worth of damages to the metro bus station at Faizabad.
Iron grills on Murree Road and CCTV camera trolleys were also damaged.
A
senior district administration official told Dawn the administration
also forwarded a list of six people who died in government-run
hospitals, according to a list provided by the medical superintendents
of Benazir Bhutto Hospital, Holy Family Hospital and District
Headquarters Hospital.
According to the decided
compensation payments, the family of each deceased individual will
receive Rs800,000 from the government, while those injured in the
operation – over 50 in the three government-run hospitals – would
receive Rs400,000, he said.
In response to a question, the official said Mr Khan refused compensation from the government for damage done to his house.
“We
did not go there to assess the damage, as per the government’s
directions,” he said, adding that Mr Khan’s repairs were completed by
him.
He said the committee was directed by the government
to submit the report detailing the damage to the government, which it
has done.
However, he said, the provincial government
will also seek third party verification, and compensation payments would
be released after this and would take two to three months.
