Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan on Sunday as authorities struggled to build new levees with clay and stone to prevent one of the area’s biggest cities from suffering the same fate. Almost all of Sujawal’s 250,000 residents fled the town before the water rushed in, but the damage to homes, clinics and [...]
SHAHDADKOT: Creation of a breach on the main road linking Shahdadkot and Qabo Saeed in a bid to save Shahdadkot from flood has cut off the two areas. Meanwhile, water level is witnessing a rapid surge at Thatta-Kotri downstream. 700,000 cusecs water is passing from Kotri Barrage and 500,000 cusecs from Thatta district. Flood has [...]
BEIJING: China said on Friday it would send 1,000 tents and other emergency equipment to Pakistan to help with the nation’s devastating floods. The news comes as Richard Holbrooke, the US point man on Pakistan, called on China, which has already sent 60 million yuan (8.8 million dollars) in aid, to “step up to the [...]
MULTAN—Though the super Flood tide has lost much of its intensity in River Indus and Chenab yet authorities have warned that flood water with a discharges of 2,66,000 in River Chenab would pass though Muzaffargarh and Multan within 24 hours. Met Department said that 0.25 cusecs water flow would pass through Marala which could affect [...]
SUKKUR (PAKISTAN): Pakistanpresident Asif Ali Zardari tried to comfort victims of devastating floods on Thursday on his first visit to the area after criticism of his trips abroad and his government’s perceived slack response. Zardari, wearing a traditional white cap, travelled along the 2km long Sukkur barrage and peered into the roiling Indus waters. He [...]
