ISLAMABAD-To minimise the plight of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), people especially students from various academic institutions have been extending all out help for the suffering Pakistanis who are forced to vacate their areas in Swat, Buner and Malakand and are living in miserable condition.
Relief camps are being established. In the federal capital, relief camps are set up in different educational and commercial localities and people are donating cash, blankets and many other essential items with great enthusiasm for the their brothers and sisters hailing from troubled areas of Swat and Malakand.
Qauid-i-Azam University Islamabad (QAU), Pir Mehar Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Asghar Mall College and the students of Gordon College Rawalpindi are also busy in fund-raising campaign for the military operation victims. Karkunan of Islami Jamiat Talba, Insaf Students Federation, Annjaman Talba-e-Islam, Muslim Students Federation and People’s Students Federation are actively collecting donation from the students in the campuses.
It was agreed that all universities would join hands in this day to mobilise all possible resources for IDP especially the students.
HEC has announced to establish IDP Welfare auditable account for receiving contributions from the universities in Pakistan and committed one-day salary for the purpose. It was also recommended that internally displaced students will be exempted from the tuition and hostel fees and some subsistence allowance may also be offered to such students. Universities all across Pakistan also offered to accommodate displaced students in their programs free of cost.

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