MIRPURKHAS, May 23: Amid widespread complaints of an acute shortage of irrigation water in Sukkur and Mirpurkhas divisions, various organisations of growers, peasants and tillers have urged the government to release adequate water in canals, distributaries and channels to save the Kharif crop.

DAWN.COM and Zahir Shah Sherazi

PESHAWAR: Around 30 people were reported killed in rain-related incidents in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, DawnNews reported.

Four children were killed and nine others were injured after roof’s of a number of houses collapsed in various areas of Peshawar.

Three people were killed in Badrashi Nowshera and Nizampur, while seven others were injured.

Meanwhile in Buner, two people were killed and four others were injured when they were hit by an avalanche. Another three people were killed in a similar incident in Shangla.

From the Newspaper | Kalbe Ali

ISLAMABAD, Jan 29: “Almost 40 per cent glaciers in Afghanistan have been reduced in 40 years, whereas the glaciers supplying water to Ravi, Chenab, Beas and Jhelum Rivers are thinning,” said Dr Chaudary Inayatullah, Climate Change Expert at Save the Children.

Dr Chaudhry was speaking at a seminar, ‘Building Resilience in the Indus Basin’, on Tuesday, organised by Save the Children.

Faiza Ilyas

JACOBABAD: “Neither the floods spared us nor did the landlords. They are telling us to pay for the expenses incurred on crop cultivation without realising the fact that the entire harvest has been destroyed in the floods. It wasn’t our fault but God’s will,” protested a farmer waiting for his turn to receive a free ration bag in Khukharani Lara village of Jacobabad district.

RAJANPUR: Abdul Sattar is squatting in front of a flood-swept field of cotton, a 20-minute walk from the entrance to his basti, Miranpur.

Almost three months ago, Sattar woke up to find water rushing into his katcha home. Along with 25,000 people in Punjab, and over 400,000 people all over the country, his home now falls into the category defined as ‘partially or fully damaged’, according to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).

His land was affected too — as part of almost 500,000 acres in Punjab, and one million acres across the country.

QUETTA, Sept 30: The president of the Balochistan chapter of PPP, Mir Sadiq Umrani, said on Sunday that over 400 people had lost their lives and crops worth Rs22 billion had been destroyed in floods in Naseerabad division.

Addressing a press conference, he said the government had provided foodstuffs only to 3 per cent of the people affected by the floods.

He appealed to the government and the United Nations to accelerate the assistance programme to help the needy.

From the Newspaper | Saleem Shahid | 1 day ago

QUETTA: Standing crops suffered a loss of Rs18 billion after torrential rains and heavy floods devastated about 19 per cent areas of Nasirabad and Jaffarabad districts in Balochistan.

This was disclosed at a meeting held in Dera Murad Jamali to review the flood situation in the two districts.

From the Newspaper | Saleem Shahid | 20th September, 2012

QUETTA, Sept 19: The flood situation in Jaffarabad has worsened and Sohbatpur town and some other areas have been inundated after torrents from Sindh entered the eastern parts of the district.

“About 80 per cent of Jaffarabad district has been badly affected by the floods. Thousands of mud houses have been washed away, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless,” Deputy Commissioner Naseer Nasar told Dawn on Wednesday, adding that heavy floods were battering all the four tehsils of the district.

KARACHI: A total of 262 people have been reported killed and 815 injured so far this year as torrential monsoon rains and flash floods wreak havoc throughout the country, Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said Monday.

Over 70, 000 houses have also been reportedly damaged, with 51,027 partially and 19,465 completely damaged, said the official statistics which are updated until Sept 16.

Approximately 3,883 villages, spreading over an area of over 1,345,531 acres, have been affected by the torrential rains.