Web Desk (LTN NEWS): General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who is in charge of the army, was also out in the field on Saturday. He went to the parts of Balochistan that were hit by flooding. He went to the flood relief and medical camps set up in Goth Sadoori, Lakhra, and Lasbela and asked how the people who had been hurt by the floods were doing.
ISPR says that General Bajwa also met troops who were helping with relief efforts and praised their work. “The safety and well-being of our countrymen come first, and we won’t stop working until we’ve reached and helped everyone who was hurt by the flood, no matter how hard it is. “The people of Pakistan are our top priority, and we will do everything we can to help them through this hard time,” said COAS.
He told all available resources to be used to help the civil administration rescue, help, and rebuild people and infrastructure in areas that were hit by floods.
Along with the general officer in charge of Gwadar, Commander 12 Corps Quetta Lt-Gen Asif Ghafoor also went to Lasbela to meet with flood victims.
Gen Bajwa visits Sindh
Army Chief Gen. Bajwa went to see troops in Sindh who were helping flood victims in Khairpur and Qambar-Shahdadkot, which are far away. The ISPR said that the COAS spent the whole day with flood victims who were staying in medical and relief camps.
The people who were hurt by floods thanked the army chief for coming to see them and listening to their problems and pain. He talked to soldiers on the ground and thanked them for what they were doing to comfort the people who were waiting for help.
“Helping the people of Pakistan who are in need is a good thing to do, and we should be proud to serve them as best we can,” the COAS said.
Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked all political parties to stop what they are doing and put all of their time and energy into helping hundreds of thousands of people get back on their feet.
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In a short speech on Sunday from London, the PML-N supreme leader said that even though the flood was a natural disaster, it was a time for “soul searching” to see if “our actions and mistakes” were to blame for the suffering of the country. “These things can’t be ruled out,” he said.
Mr. Sharif asked everyone in the country, especially the wealthy, to take responsibility and help people in need as much as they could.
Several were airlifted, but many were still stuck
Even though the Pakistan Army and rescue teams from KP were still rescuing many stranded people, mostly tourists, in the flood-hit districts of Swat, Dir Upper, and Kohistan, many were still said to be stuck there.
In Dir Upper and Charsadda, three more people drowned in rivers. People who live in low-lying parts of Charsadda and Nowshera were still afraid as of Sunday evening, when a huge flow of 336,461 cusecs was reported in the Kabul River near Nowshera.
Several parts of both districts were still under water, and the district government asked people to move to relief centers, which were mostly set up in government schools and colleges.
The PDMA says that around 21 homes were destroyed in the Babozai neighborhood of Charsadda. 1,860 people were saved in the same area. Based on information from the PDMA, 60 people were saved in Dir Upper.
Sunday was the third day in a row that parts of Garhi Momin, Jabba Daudzai, Mohib Banda, Banda Mullah Khan, Banda Sheikh Ismail, Choki Drab, Choki Mamraiz, Pashtoon Garhi, Nowshera Kalan, Pir Sabak, Aman Garh, and other places in the Nowshera district were underwater.
The Swat district administration says that 172 tourists were stuck in the Asrarit area and that 150 people, both tourists and hotel staff, were stuck at the popular tourist spot Mohodand. In the same way, 60 tourists were stuck in the village of Swat in Bahrain.
In Lower Kohistan, an army helicopter saved a boy who was stuck on a rock in the middle of a flood.
A Spanish couple was among the many tourists who were airlifted out of the beautiful Kalam valley in Swat by the army and the provincial government.
In the Daak and Anambostan areas of the Noshki district in Balochistan, people who are stuck in floodwaters are waiting for rescue and recovery efforts. Khurram Khalid, the deputy commissioner of Noshki, told Dawn that so far 133 stranded people had been rescued, and on Sunday, helicopters brought the rest rations and cooked food.
