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More than 60 relief camps setup for flood victims​

The Frontier Post

HYDERABAD: Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon presiding over a meeting with the concerned officers at the DC Office, Hyderabad today has directed the officers of Local Government, Solid Waste Management, WASA and other concerned officers to ensure drainage of rainwater accumulated on the streets of Hyderabad and submit its report to him.

DC Hyderabad Fuad Ghaffar Soomro, Administrator Hyderabad Fakhir Shakir and other officers attended the meeting. He asked the officers to send him footage of the areas where rainwater had been drained out while he himself would inspect the work done for water drainage including sanitation in the three taluks of District Hyderabad. He directed to take action against ghost employees of Local Government Department.

On this occasion, DC Hyderabad Fuad Ghaffar Soomro gave a briefing to the Provincial Minister regarding the efficiency of HDA and WASA, financial issues, manpower and gravity-based rainwater drainage. He further informed that the system of WASA and HDA was very old and needed to be upgraded for which Rs 130 million to 140 million was required. He also briefed the Provincial Minister about WASA expenditure, income and amount required for it.

DC Hyderabad further informed that a tent city was being established near Kohsar for the rain affected people. The Administrator Hyderabad Fakhir Shakir in his briefing informed that the machinery was 20 years old, while 25 tractors, 5 shovels and 5 dumpers had been provided earlier by Solid Waste Management while 4 dumpers and one shovel had also been received which according to him was not enough for the cleanliness of Hyderabad. He said that a grant of Rs 20 million had been sought in writing for more machinery and repair works which had not been received yet.

The officers of Solid Waste Management informed the Sindh Minister that 2 hundred thousand tonnes of waste had been collected from Hyderabad so far. The Sindh Minister directed the solid waste management and Administrator Hyderabad to jointly visit the three taluks of Hyderabad and formulate a strategy for sanitation. He directed the officers of the Irrigation Department to provide soil dumpers to strengthen the embankments of Rahuki and Hosri Canal.

 

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Has the rain stopped or are we expecting more?

 

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'Doomsday' scenario in Pakistan as monsoon leaves one-third of the country underwater and over 1,000 dead

The United Nations issued a flash appeal Tuesday for emergency funds, urging the world to give the South Asian country its attention and aid.

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A third of Pakistan is underwater as deadly floods leave desperate residents facing 'doomsday'​

The United Nations issued a flash appeal Tuesday for emergency funds, urging the world to give the South Asian country its attention and aid.

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Aug. 30, 2022, 3:54 AM PDT / Updated Aug. 30, 2022, 7:16 AM PDT
By Mushtaq Yusufzai, Rhoda Kwan and Evan Bush
CHARSADDA, Pakistan — A third of the country underwater. More than 1,000 people killed. And an estimated $10 billion of damage done.
Pakistan's “monster monsoon” has swept away lives, homes, crops and bridges as weeks of historic rains fuel deadly flash floods. Almost half a million people have been displaced, with vast areas cut off from supplies and power.

Footage shared with NBC News shows ******** sweeping away multistoried buildings and inundating people up to their necks.
Experts and local officials have drawn a direct line to human-made climate change, saying it illustrates how countries with the lowest contributions to the global crisis are becoming increasingly vulnerable to its effects — and in dire need of urgent aid.

Disaster officials say nearly a half million people in Pakistan are crowded into camps after they lost their homes in widespread flooding.Zahid Hussain / AP

On Tuesday, the United Nations issued a flash appeal for emergency funds, urging the world to give the South Asian nation its attention and aid.
“It was not less than a doomsday for us," said Asghar Ali, a 56-year-old farmer who was forced to leave his home in the northern town of Charsadda on Friday.
"Thousands of people just didn’t have time to shift precious households to safe places,” said Ali, who now lives with his livestock in a makeshift shelter alongside the Islamabad-Peshawar motorway.
“We saved our lives but the houses filled with floodwater. Life here on the motorway is a curse,” he added.
Pakistan’s government has said that more than 33 million people, around 15 % of the population, have been affected by the extreme weather.
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A family take refuge along a highway after they fled floods in Charsadda, Pakistan, over the weekend.Abdul Majeed / AFP - Getty Images

The extreme floods have killed more than 1,136 people since June, including 386 children, and damaged a million homes, Pakistan's government said.
Although rains stopped three days ago and floodwaters in some areas were receding, large areas remain submerged and the country's main rivers, the Indus and the Swat, are still swollen.
The heavy floods have left a third of the country — an area the size of Wyoming — underwater, according to Climate Minister Sherry Rehman. She has called this "the monster monsoon of the decade" and described the situation as a “climate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions.”



Authorities backed by the military, rescuers and volunteers have been battling the aftermath, but local officials and aid groups say the scale of the crisis means Pakistan cannot cope on its own.
The government declared a state of emergency and on Tuesday, the U.N. launched an appeal for $160 million in emergency funds for the country.
“Pakistan is awash in suffering,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video message. “The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids — the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding.”

A man moves children across a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains fell in Jaffarabad, Pakistan, on Friday.Fida Hussain / AFP - Getty Images

The country’s south, southwest and north have been hit hardest by the floods.
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The waters have also destroyed roads and bridges, further complicating relief efforts, the chief minister of the southern Balochistan province, Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo, told a news conference Monday.
“Life has become terrible here,” said Riaz Khan, a resident of Kalam Valley in Pakistan’s picturesque northern Swat district. "We have been cut off from the rest of Pakistan since Aug. 25 as the floods had swept away roads and bridges linking us with the downtowns," he added.
He said the floods had left the valley's entire population of 40,000 without power supply.
Aid groups are also calling for immediate assistance.
“We’re seeing complete devastation," Khuram Gondal, Save the Children’s Pakistan director, said in a statement Monday. "It is clear that this is a massive humanitarian and climate emergency. Children are always the worst affected."

People gather in front of a road damaged by floodwaters in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley over the weekend. Abdul Majeed / AFP - Getty Images

The floods are also a financial catastrophe, sweeping away crops, livelihoods and crucial infrastructure.
The country has already suffered losses equaling $10 billion due to the flooding, Finance Minister Miftah Ismail told reporters Monday. Around 90% of cotton crops have been destroyed in the Sindh province, according to its chief minister.
“As compared to the 2010 devastating floods, this time casualties are less but the economic losses are much more” said Mahmood Khan, the chief minister of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. More than 1,700 people died in severe flooding in Pakistan in 2010.
“Most of the roads and bridges in the hilly areas of the Malakand region had been washed away in the floods, causing billion rupees of losses.”
The International Monetary Fund's executive board on Monday agreed to release around $1.1 billion to Pakistan in the seventh installment of a bailout program to avoid default.

The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached 1,136, according to figures released by the country's National Disaster Management Authority. Shahid Saeed Mirza / AFP - Getty Images

The flooding has prompted warnings from activists that the effects of climate change are being disproportionately felt by countries that have done little to contribute to it.
Fahad Saeed, an Islamabad-based analyst for Climate Analytics, said the group's analysis showed the recent heat wave that saw temperatures soar past 122 degrees Fahrenheit was made 30 times more likely due to climate change.
Weather experts say higher temperatures directly lead to heavier rainfall as warmer air has a greater capacity to hold water, a phenomenon seen around the world in recent weeks.
Saeed described Pakistan's flooding as the "worst in the country's history" in terms of people affected, warning it may worsen as the current monsoon season is still not over.

Watch: Helicopter rescues stranded boy from Pakistan's deadly floods​

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The “unprecedented” heat wave that hit Pakistan this year has also accelerated the melting of glaciers in mountain ranges near northern Pakistan, Mohsin Hafeez, Pakistan representative at the International Water Management Institute, said in an emailed statement Tuesday.
This threatens further floods as that water could join the rain that has come crashing down from the northern mountains.
“People here are bearing the brunt of global climate change," Islamic Relief Worldwide CEO Waseem Ahmad said in an emailed statement Tuesday. "Pakistan produces less than 1% of the world’s carbon footprint, but its people are suffering the biggest consequences."
CORRECTION (Aug. 30, 2022, 10:16 a.m. ET): A previous version of this article misstated the weather event made 30 times more likely due to climate change. It was Pakistan’s recent heat wave, not its current flooding.
Mushtaq Yusufzai reported from Charsadda, Pakistan, Rhoda Kwan reported from Taipei, Taiwan, and Evan Bush reported from Seattle.
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Pakistan's deadly floods have created a massive 100km-wide inland lake​

By Brandon Miller, Judson Jones, Sophia Saifi and Kathleen Magramo, CNN

August 31, 2022

An image of Sindh province, taken on August 28 from NASA's MODIS satellite sensor.
(CNN)Striking new satellite images that reveal the extent of Pakistan's record flooding show how an overflowing Indus River has turned part of Sindh Province into a 100 kilometer-wide inland lake.

Swaths of the country are now underwater, after what United Nation officials have described as a "monsoon on steroids" brought the heaviest rainfall in living memory and flooding that has killed 1,162 people, injured 3,554 and affected 33 million since mid-June.
The new images, taken on August 28 from NASA's MODIS satellite sensor, show how a combination of heavy rain and an overflowing Indus River have inundated much of Sindh province in the South.

Move the slider to the left to reveal the flood waters (shown in blue) cover large portions of Pakistan's normally arid, brown landscape in this satellite image captured on Sunday, August 28th. Move the slider back to the right to the same date last year. These images are known as 'false-color,' which combine infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land.

In the center of the picture, a large area of dark blue shows the Indus overflowing and flooding an area around 100 kilometers (62 miles) wide, turning what were once agricultural fields into a giant inland lake.

It's a shocking transformation from the photo taken by the same satellite on the same date last year, which shows the river and its tributaries contained in what appear by comparison to be small, narrow bands, highlighting the extent of the damage in one of the country's hardest-hit areas.

This year's monsoon is already the country's wettest since records began in 1961, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, and the season still has one month to go.
In both Sindh and Balochistan provinces, rainfall has been 500% above average, engulfing entire villages and farmland, razing buildings and wiping out crops.

A man helps children navigate floodwaters using a satellite dish in Balochistan, Pakistan, on Friday, August 26.

'Flood of apocalyptic proportions'​

In a interview with CNN Tuesday, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said he had visited Sindh and seen first-hand how the flooding had displaced entire villages and towns.

"There is barely any dry land that we can find. The scale of this tragedy ... 33 million people, that's more than the population of Sri Lanka or Australia," he said.

"And while we understand that the new reality of climate change means more extreme weather, or monsoons, more extreme heat waves like we saw earlier this year, the scale of the current flood is of apocalyptic proportions. We certainly hope it's not a new climate reality."

Satellite images from Maxar Technologies from other areas of the country show how entire villages and hundreds of plots of verdant land have been razed by the rapidly moving floods.

Gudpur, Pakistan
SATELLITE IMAGE ©2022MAXARTECHNOLOGIES
Images from Gudpur, a locality in Punjab, show how the floods have damaged homes, and replaced land with snaking trails of of bare Earth.

Gudpur, Pakistan
SATELLITE IMAGE ©2022MAXARTECHNOLOGIES

The province has logged most of the latest deaths after water levels rose exponentially, said the country's National Disaster Management Authority.

Sharif said Tuesday the flooding was the "worst in Pakistan's history" and international assistance was needed to deal with the scale of the devastation.

 

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'Burning with pain': Pakistan floods threaten major health crisis​

AFP
August 31, 2022

SUKKUR: At a charity clinic in a southern Pakistani village, dozens of people affected by relentless rains and floods crowd around the door waiting to talk to a volunteer doctor.

The village of Bhambro is in a poor district of Sindh province, hard-hit by record floods that have destroyed more than a million homes and damaged critical infrastructure including health facilities across the country.

Bhambro is surrounded by vast stretches of flooded farmland, its streets full of mud and strewn with debris and manure -- conditions ripe for outbreaks of malaria, cholera and skin diseases such as scabies.

"Skin diseases are the main problem here because of dirty, stagnant water and unhygienic conditions," said Sajjad Memon, one of the doctors at the clinic, which is run by the charity Alkhidmat Foundation.

He used the flashlight on his mobile phone to examine patients, who were mostly reporting scabs and rashes on Tuesday. Many had made their way to the clinic walking barefoot through filthy floodwater and mud.

"My child's foot is burning with pain. My feet too," said Azra Bhambro, a 23-year-old woman who had come to the clinic for help.

Abdul Aziz, a doctor in charge of Alkhidmat's clinics in the area, told AFP that cases of scabies and fungal infections were on the rise.

Scabies outbreaks are common in crowded places with tropical conditions -- such as flood relief camps and shelters -- and can lead to severe itching and rashes, according to the World Health Organization.

Memon told AFP that many of the patients at the clinic could not afford to purchase shoes.

Major health hazards

The millions of people affected by the floods face major health hazards including potentially deadly diseases such as malaria and dengue fever, the WHO warned in a statement Tuesday.

Sindh province, in Pakistan's south, has been hit particularly hard, with vast swathes of land under water and many villagers forced to head to large cities for shelter, food aid and medical assistance.

The health threat is even greater in areas such as Bhambro, where health services were already limited, and for the tens of thousands who are taking shelter in crowded relief camps.

"Ongoing disease outbreaks in Pakistan, including acute watery diarrhoea, dengue fever, malaria, polio, and Covid-19 are being further aggravated, particularly in camps and where water and sanitation facilities have been damaged," the WHO said.

 

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Floods in Pakistan: China announces 100m yuan aid

China on Tuesday announced financial assistance of 100 million Yuan for Pakistan, affected by flash floods, which have left thousands marooned since mid-June.The financial assistance was announced in a message delivered by Chinese Ambassador to Pakis

nation.com.pk

 

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The Turkish Red Crescent launched an aid campaign. A nationwide SMS campaign has also started. I ask every person I meet to have their phone for a few minutes and get them to join the fundraiser.

I don't know what more I can do. If you share information in the form of bank account information about the global participation campaigns of Pakistani disaster-fighting institutions, I am trying to create a mailing list and I will add it there. Thank you.

May Allah(cc) help the people of Pakistan. I love you guys, stay strong. Please accept my deepest condolences for those who lost their lives.

 

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40 years wardi mafia supported same gang of bastards so they can expand their dhas and now Pakistan is losing money!

if we talk about khi i think i few years bahria town and dha will both be flooded specially bahria is built on storm drain! Sindh flooded because natural drains peh china cutting kar di boys aur waderun nay mil keh!

koi itna khanzeer kesay ho sakta hai!

 

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Keeping in view the current situation, here is a little something for the members to see and take note of. The value of having grass, trees, shurbs, anything with roots in the ground. Of course there are other factors involved as well, but this is the main gist of it.

Very informative share I did not knew that water absorbs less in a burned out grass and hardened surface underneath

 

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Special kind of stupid... who is he talking to?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1564888199763222528

 

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Tragedy in Sindh .

Special kind of stupid... who is he talking to?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1564888199763222528

This whole family should work in tv drama ... no shame.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1564635225229262849

As always, the Americans are most generous in helping people around the world during times of natural calamity.

 

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As always, the Americans are most generous in helping people around the world during times of natural calamity.

Not nearly as generous as they are to the Ukrainians, already given over $100 bn.