Massive floods across Pakistan | Thousands Killed

[air marshal]

 

[Patriot]

Pakistani army soldiers help an elderly villager evacuated from flooded area in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. AP / Mohammad Sajjad

Pakistan Air Force evacuate stranded villagers in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. AP / Mohammad Sajjad

 

[Patriot]

 

[The Coon]

Really harrowing the number of the victims , i hope the situation will be get better and dont boost the number of the deaths.

 

[SparklingCrescent]

This is a perfect time for Army getting to meet people from all over KP. Builds the trust between them.

 

[Durrak]

really sad people are thnkng of their own
i was watching news and the situation is terrible
MAY ALLAH bless us

 

[alibaz]

PESHAWAR: The flood began to recede after wreaking havoc in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa amid the ongoing relief operation by the armed forces of Pakistan in areas affected by floods, Geo News reported Monday.

However, thousands of people are still awaiting relief in several areas.

Pak armed forces continue their operation in Dera Ismail Khan’s affected areas, where two relief camps have been set up for the victims in Paharpur and Dera Bakhar.

Thousands are still trapped in various flooded areas. Various villages in Tehsil Parova are cut off with thousands of marooned people waiting to get relief.

Ground communication links of several villages remain disrupted, rendering thousands of people, including women and children, stranded. Meanwhile, Pak Army has deployed three boats to rescue 400 families stranded in Thatta Balochan area of Paharpur.

In district Charsadda, 500 relief camps have been set up which are providing shelter to hundreds of thousands of flood affectees while a government survey is underway to assess the damage unleashed by the devastating rains and floods.

A committee has been set up under the supervision of Barrister Arshadullah to oversee the ongoing relief activities while 22 mobile medical teams are providing medical aid to the affectees in different areas.

People trapped in Kandia, Beer, Patan and Sapat areas of Kohistan for the past six days are still awaiting help.



Pak Army relief operation continues in KP - GEO.tv

 

[alibaz]

Flood heads to Sindh; 1,100 died in KP, Punjab
After unleashing massive destruction in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, the flood heads towards province Sindh, while the death tally due to the natural disaster has risen above 1,100, Dunya News reported on Monday.
As many as 50 villages have been inundated as River Indus flooded at Taunsa.
In Layyah, bund of Bakhri Ahmed Khan has been washed away while 2,500 people have been marooned in Kacha Mirani, Kacha Jhakar, Basti Tarori, Basti Bhikhri Ahmed Khan and Basti Ooth Mahar. Sargodha-Khushab Road deluged due to floodwater in Shahpur.
Around 498 villages have been swept away as floodwater in River Indus reached Rajanpur while water inflow of 0.9million cusecs would pass through Nishtar Ghat. A medium flood entered Multan through River Chenab owing to which the people living alongside the river coasts have been asked to move to safer places. In Jampur, 205 villages, 143 in Rojhan and 90 in MIthan Kot have been wiped out in the furious floods where rescue efforts are underway. Scores of people have been shifted to safer places from Dera Ismail Khan and adjoining areas. The flood is fast moving towards Sindh on account of which warning has been issued to 26 places declared sensitive.
Ten houses have been washed away while hundreds of acres agricultural land deluged as a 15-feet breach occurred at Bimbli Miner. Some 100 villages of 9 Union Councils of Alipur and Jatoi wiped out. Army has been called in in view of the flood threat while Rangers have also been deployed at different bunds.

UN pledges $10m aid

The United Nations is contributing $10 million in relief assistance for flood-battered Pakistan where the world body's agencies are already helping the affected people, a spokesman for Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Sunday night.
‘In addition to the aid the United Nations is already providing, the Secretary-General is authorising the disbursement of up to $10 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund to help address the pressing needs of the population’, the spokesman said in a statement. The Statement was issued soon after Pakistan's UN Ambassador Abdullah Hussain Haroon briefed the UN chief on the calamitous situation in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa that is now afflicting the Punjab, and ultimately Sindh and Balochistan. The statement added, ‘The Secretary-General is deeply saddened by the significant loss of lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure in Pakistan, following the recent heavy monsoon rains that have caused the worst floods in the last 80 years, affecting more than one million of people’. ‘The Secretary-General offers his deepest condolences to the people and Government of Pakistan and reiterates the UN's full commitment to supporting the national and provincial authorities in meeting the humanitarian needs of the population affected’. On the other hand, China also pledged $10m while Australia $5million. Netherland’s rescue teams have also started working in the calamity-hit areas with Sri Lanka announced to send medicines and teams of doctors.

Dunya TV - Pakistan | Flood heads to Sindh; 1,100 died in KP, Punjab

 

[Xeric]

Till the time we have azzholes like him, WE all deserve to drown..!

 

[sparklingway]

I urge people not to go on the offensive unnecessarily.

Gilani directs ministers to visit affected areas

PM Gilani in meeting with the PRCS Chairman, Mian M. Hanif.​

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani Sunday claimed that the government was taking steps for providing maximum relief to people of flood affected areas. At the same time, he urged civil society and non-government organisations (NGOs) to also come forward to play their role in this regard.

Talking to the Chairman of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society (PRCS), Punjab, Mian Muhammad Hanif here at the Governor’s House Sunday afternoon, the PM directed the PRCS to keep liaison with the provincial governments and take measures for fully ensuring the provision of medicines and other facilities to flood victims

PM Gilani also directed the federal ministers to visit flood affected areas around the country to assess the needs of the affected population, according to a press statement released by the Regional Information Office on Sunday.

The PM has asked the ministers to coordinate their visits with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to facilitate the relief and rehabilitation work so as to alleviate the difficulties of the people.

According to the PM’s instructions, Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Mohammad Gondal will visit Mandi Bhauddin, Bhera, Joharian, Khushaab, Mianwali and Bhakkar. Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf will visit Leyyah, Rajanpur, Tonsa, Sukkur and Guddu. He has been directed to visit the barrages as well. Minister for Industries and Production Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani along with Mir Aijaz Hussain Jakhrani will visit different flood affected areas in Sindh.

Minister for Communication Dr Arbab Alamgir Khan along with Minister for State and Frontier Region Najamuddin Khan will visit different areas in Peshawar, Nowshera, Risalpur and adjoining areas. Minister for Special Initiatives Lal Muhammad Khan will visit Malakand and Swat region.

Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan Mian Manzoor Ahmad Watto will visit Pattan and different areas of Azad Jummu and Kashmir.

Minister for Live Stock and Dairy Development Humayun Aziz Kurd, along with Minster of State for Industries and Production Dr Ayat ullah Durrani will visit Kund and its adjoining areas. Minister for Interior Rehman Malik has been directed to visit different flood affected areas of Baluchistan.

According to the press release, the federal ministers have been asked to give their reports to the NDMA to facilitate the relief work. The ministers have also been directed to visit the relief camps established in Pattan, Mirpur, Cashma and Taunsa and to monitor the conditions in the camps and give recommendations to improve the facilities.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 2nd, 2010.

 

[Beskar]

I'm off to Peshawer and Chaar Sada early in the morning with flood relief equipment good enough for about 4000 people. Please pray for us in these desperate times. Will InshAllah update you guys as soon as I'm back.

You'll get images from ground zero in a separate thread.

As always, God Bless Pakistan!

 

[sparklingway]

International aid starts pouring in​

A view of the arrival of the goods sent by the US at the Chaklala Airbase. Photo: Online
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ISLAMABAD: As floods continued to wreak havoc in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and western Punjab, foreign assistance has made its way into the country to help those affected by this natural calamity.

The US announced on Sunday that it would make an initial contribution of $10 million in humanitarian assistance to Pakistan for flood relief activities based on priorities identified by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

US Embassy spokesperson Richard Snelsire said that on NDMA’s request, early on Sunday, US aircrews aboard a US Air Force C-130 and a C-17 flew into Chaklala Airbase, Rawalpindi, and delivered about 50,000 halal meals.

Hassan Zulfiqar, the director of Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority met the aircraft at the airbase as they delivered the supplies.

“Thousands of people are marooned in flooded areas. They need immediate assistance, especially food and medicines,” Zulfiqar said. He said the US aid would be a great help.

Snelsire said approximately 62,000 more meals from US supply depots in the region were scheduled for delivery to Pakistan through US airlift, with more coming over the next few days. He said the US was also prepared to earmark additional funds for the effort, if Pakistan were to make a request in this connection.

Snelsire said US assistance to Pakistan’s flood relief efforts have also included four Zodiac inflatable rescue boats, two water filtration units, and 12 prefabricated steel bridges.

He said that the bridges would temporarily replace highway bridges damaged by flooding in Peshawar and Kurram Agency. He said that the US had provided helicopters to support the Ministry of Interior’s (MOI) rescue operations, and added that food and water also had been ferried to people still not able to leave the flood areas.

Meanwhile, China announced on Sunday that it will deliver humanitarian aid worth 10 million Yuan, approximately $1.48 million (about one tenth of what the Americans are offering), to Pakistan. China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said the aid was meant to help Pakistan fight the flooding and rescue victims.

The World Food Programme also started food distributions to 35,000 families hit by catastrophic flooding in parts of the north. According to an official WFP statement, distributions of emergency food supplies were given to 3,000 families in three of the worst affected districts – Peshawar, Nowshera and Charsadda .

On Saturday, the European Union had announced it would give Pakistan 30 million Euros in humanitarian aid to help with flood relief efforts.

In Abud Dhabi, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al Nahyan assured President Zardari of his government’s full cooperation and financial assistance to help Pakistan at a difficult time. The assurance was given at a meeting between the two. Meanwhile, France expressed solidarity with the people of Pakistan as deadly floods cast a cloud over a visit to Paris by the suffering country’s president. “I learned with great emotion of the tragic toll of floods in northwest Pakistan,” said Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. (Additional input from Agencies)

Published in The Express Tribune, August 2nd, 2010

 

[Tu tu]

bhagwan sab mare hue logo ki atma ko shanti de....

the worst is yet to come.. diseases that breakout after flood.
hope that the local authorities handle it appropriately.

 

[NWO]

This is the flood also hitting militant areas as well? Perhaps they'll get cleaned out as well.

 

[Evil Flare]

This is the flood also hitting militant areas as well? Perhaps they'll get cleaned out as well.

Don't make fun who had died ..

in Militant areas there are thousand & thousands of innocent people who don't have anything to do with militancy .