Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Schools in Koh-i-Sulaiman tehsil, which is cut off from the rest of the district, have been turned into relief camps for people who have lost their homes because of floods. Damage has been done to roads and other infrastructure. Since two weeks ago, Taunsa-Balochistan Road has been closed.
Floodwater and a lack of resources make it hard to help people in some flood-affected areas.
Chiterwata, Barthi, Fazla, Thakur, and Mubaraki still don’t have roads that connect them. The people who live in the mountainous area are still stuck. Trans-Indus districts Dera Ghazi Khan and Rajanpur have been hit hard by a lack of food.
“Steps are being taken to open all the closed roads in Taunsa Sharif, and the roads in Sulaiman Range will be open soon,” said Deputy Commissioner Anwar Baryar. He also said that all tribal schools had been turned into relief camps to help the people.
Malik Ikram is in charge of the relief operation. He is the commandant of the Border Military Police and the political assistant to the tehsil.
Zulfiqar Malghani, CEO of Education, told Dawn that buildings from 356 schools had been turned into relief camps.
Police teams have been sent to all the areas that have been flooded. Attock, Mianwali, Bhakkar, Layyah, Muzaffargarh, Rahim Yar Khan, and Dera Ghazi Khan all have police teams there to help. More than 13,000 people have been moved to safe places by police in the DG Khan area.
All of the river outposts in the area are on high alert, and boats are also patrolling.
In the Layyah district of Muzaffargarh, the Deputy Commissioner Imtiaz Ahmad Khichi has declared an emergency because the only Shahwala Grahin spur is in danger of breaking. As the Indus river flow will be high in the next 24 hours, the district government has told people to leave.
Assistant Commissioner Malik Asad Ali said that people living near the river would be the first ones to leave. The government set up relief camps for the people who were hurt.
Chaudhry Ajmal, SDO of the Layyah canal division, said that officials were keeping an eye on the situation and that the river was moving at more than 500,000 cusecs.
Near the Head Taunsa Barrage, three villages, Faqeerwali and Lonwala, and 5,000 populated areas have been affected. Cattle and crops have been washed away, and people are upset that there is nothing they can do to help. Malik Ghulam Qasim Hinjra, a member of parliament for the PML-N, said that he had asked federal minister Ahsan Iqbal to add people from these villages to the Benazir Income Support Program.
The assistant commissioners in Muzaffargarh’s Alipur and Jatoi tehsils told people to leave because of the expected flow of 800,000 cusecs.
The Flood Forecasting Division has warned that the water flow at the Kalabagh and Chashma barrages will be between 550,000 and 700,000 cusecs, which is a high level flood.
The Indus River flows out of the mountains where the proposed site of the Kalabagh dam is. It flows through a large area all the way to the Chashma Barrage and further downriver. This area is in the tehsils of Mianwali, Isa Khel, and Piplan.
The officials have been told by Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Umair to help people who are being evacuated.
