Web Desk (LTN NEWS): Thursday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif set a “new deadline” for the government to pay each family affected by floods Rs50,000 in compensation. His previous deadline of three days had not been met.
At a meeting to talk about the damage caused by flash floods, the prime minister told the government to send cash aid to the people who need it through an electronic transfer. This is to make sure that the right people get their money.
He also told the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) to help flood-damaged areas of southern Sindh with relief and recovery.
He stressed that the victims needed food, medicine, and clean water right away, as well as a place to stay.
Thirteen people, including women and children, were killed in Sindh. Balochistan was completely cut off from the rest of the provinces, and water covered several parts of DG Khan.
The prime minister also told the provincial and federal agencies to do a damage assessment survey together. This should be done in three weeks.
At the meeting, it was also said that the federal government was talking to international donors and other organizations that help people.
Under the Emergency Disaster Relief Fund, the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank have both promised money to help rebuild and fix up areas that were hit by floods.
13 die in Sindh
In Karachi’s Memon Goth neighborhood, the flooded Malir River killed a couple, their four young children, and the driver of the taxi they were in. The bodies of two siblings were found, and the search for the rest of the family was still going on.
In another case, a young mother drowned in Gadap Town on Thursday night as she tried to save her two young children from heavy flooding.
In other accidents caused by the rain in the city, three more people drowned and four were electrocuted.
In Larkana, 20 people were hurt when more than 100 mud homes collapsed in other parts of Sindh.
Also, flooding has happened in several places in the districts of Hyderabad, Dadu, Jamshoro, Larkana, Sanghar, Badin, Mirpurkhas, and Umerkot because it has been raining all the time.
Land links to Balochistan cut down
In Balochistan, where the monsoon rains have already caused a lot of damage, constant rain and flash floods have made the situation even worse, causing four more deaths.
Official numbers show that the total number of people who have died in the province has reached.
Heavy landslides caused by constant rain blocked the Zhob-Dera Ismail Khan and Loralai-Fort Munro highways, which connect Balochistan to Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Without these roads, the province was cut off from the rest of the country.
The highways between Quetta and Karachi and between Quetta and Sukkur were already closed, and the train service had been stopped for four days.
Official sources said that it rained all night long in the mountains of Sherani district and Fort Munro.
At Fort Munro Pass, a boulder hit a truck and seriously hurt the driver, sources said.
Several passenger coaches and other vehicles got stuck at different points on the two highways, causing long lines of cars on both sides of the roads.
Sherani Deputy Commissioner Ijaz Ahmed Jaffar said that all kinds of traffic were stopped near Danasar because of heavy landslides on the Zhob-Dera Ismail Khan Highway.
Local government officials say that more than 25 villages in Nasirabad are completely under water and that hundreds of mud houses have been damaged or destroyed.
“The flood in the Lehri River was turned away from Dera Murad Jamali and toward an empty area,” said Muhammad Hussain, the Deputy Commissioner of Nasirabad.
He also said that the Rabi canal had been broken at six places, that the government had strengthened the protection dyke around Dera Murad Jamali, and that the flow of flood water was being watched all the time.
DG Khan
In the last four weeks, three mega flash floods caused by hill torrents in the Sulaiman Range have destroyed hundreds of human settlements and killed more than a dozen people in Rajanpur and Dera Ghazi Khan.
Because the protection dykes of the Thatta-Leghari Canal broke, water got into Kallarwala, Retara, Jatwala, Tibi Qaisrani, Banbhan Dona, Qaziwala, Damra, Jarh, Bhattawala, and dozens of other small towns in Dera Ghazi Khan.
Pakistan Army troops continued rescue and relief efforts in areas of Balochistan and Punjab that were hit by floods and moved people to safer places.
The Inter-services Public Relations (ISPR) said that the troops were helping in Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur, Naseerabad, and Lasbela. People were also getting medical care from the army’s medical teams.
