Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) and a former Prime Minister, held an international telethon on Monday to raise money for flood victims from Pakistanis in Pakistan and around the world.
“Building dams is the only way to stop flood disasters,” says the head of the PTI.
Senator Faisal Javed Khan, who was in charge of the event, said that during the three-hour flood telethon, the former prime minister raised more than Rs5 billion. Pervaiz Elahi and Mahmood Khan, the chief ministers of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, joined Imran Khan’s telethon.
During a Live Telethon that was shown on a number of TV channels, the head of the PTI said that flooding caused by back-to-back monsoon rains had affected the whole country. He said that the floods have killed more than 1,000 people and that the damage will likely cost more than Rs1,000 billion.
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He said that the country would have to build more dams in the future to protect people from disasters like this. “The only way to stop the terrible things that floods cause is to build dams.”
The head of the PTI said that he is also helping flood victims all over the country while fighting for real independence. Amir Khan, a British-Pakistani boxer, also took part in the telethon and said that he would donate Rs5 million to help flood victims. Sardar Tanveer Ilyas Khan, the Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, was at PTI’s live telethon and gave Rs30 million to flood victims.
