37 People Were killed And 150 injured In 3 Blasts Compensation In Lahore
September 2, 2010
37 People Were killed And 150 injured In 3 Blasts Compensation In Lahore:LAHORE:37 people were killed and over 150 injured in 3 blasts compensation, taking place in Lahore, when the procession Yaum-e-Ali were on their way to a conclusion in Karbala Gamay Shah in the city on Wednesday.
The first explosion occurred at the attacker before the gates of the Lower Police Mall, in front of Karbala Gamay Shah Building, at 6:55 pm. This caused panic among the mourners, who fled to Bhatti gate.
Meanwhile, a second explosion occurred in Gazniyskom Street, parking Urdu Bazaar, about 7 pm, when a suicide bomber blew himself up when he is currently a search by a constable. Two men and a policeman, were killed in the explosion. Other police were running in place.
The third explosion occurred at Bhatti Chowk, when another suicide bomber blew himself up about 13 minutes after the second explosion. As a result, dozens of people were injured.
The number of people were injured in the stampede when mourners fled in different directions to save his life. Panic gripped not only the mourners, but also police officers who, instead of maintaining law and order and fled, leaving the victim in pools of blood on Bhatti Chowk.
The angry mob took the amputated legs suicide bomber who blew himself up in Bhatti gate to the gate of the Government College University, and vented their anger by pressing his shoes, sticks and bricks.
The infuriated mob, armed with batons and sticks, besieged the police station, Lower Mall and set a police vehicle on fire. Police fired tear gas shells and resorted to firing in the air, on the roof of the building to disperse the crowd, which is trying to make their forced entry into the building.
She said that she, along with her two children huddled behind the counter placed on the path, when she could not leave the place because of the mad rush. The young man said that the explosion was louder than the sound of a jet engine.
The impact was so great that it shattered windows of nearby shops and buildings. He said that his brother was injured from the flying papers. “When I saw the rescuers came, I knew that everything will be fine,” he added.
The infuriated mob overpowered police and gave them a good thrashing. Police stood near the crime scene did not dare to speak, to save their colleagues. The protesters also took out several drivers of ambulances out of his car and beat them. They have damaged dozens of ambulances and police cars with sticks and bricks.
The protesters shouted slogans against the police for the security lapse. The angry crowd pelted and security officials and media personnel with stones. The police armored personnel carrier was spotted working the crowd, when the driver has witnessed an angry mob beat policemen with their feet, fists and sticks.
Many people complain that the police did not determine the course of the gates at entry points. According to Rescue 1122, more than 150 wounded had been transferred to various hospitals, and 65 of them, including six policemen, were described as critical. Around 85 wounded were taken to Mayo Hospital, except for 11 bodies brought to the city morgue. At least 25 wounded were taken to Sir Ganga Ram Hospital. Women, children and policemen were among the wounded.
Immediately after the incident, emergency was declared in all public hospitals in emergency counters were set up to help relatives of patients. Because of the violent reaction of the protesters, the police failed to keep a crime scene. Charred body parts of many victims are still lying at the scene. Nevertheless, the police found the torsos of the two suicide bombers.
Senior police officers, including Lahore CCPO, DIG Operations and all failed to reach the crime scene. They do not check the crime scene, including Bhatti Gate and Gazniyskom st. Commissioner and DCO admitted the incident occurred because of the security lapse. No FIR was registered till the filing of the report.
Meanwhile, doctors Sir Ganga Ram Hospital closed a state of emergency after an exchange of hot words with policemen and relatives of the victims. Meanwhile, various political and religious leaders strongly condemned the bombings. They were Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan’s President Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan Muslim League-N Quaid Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Ch Pervaiz Elahi Jamaat-e-Islami Amir, Syed Hasan Munawwar leaders of Sunni Ittehad Council and Tahafuz-and-Namoos-and-Risalat Mahaz (TNRM), “Haji Fazal Karim, Riaz Hussain Shah Hussain Raghib Rentals, and Haji Hanif Tayyab, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e Muslimeen leader, Abdul Khaliq Assad others.
Mr. Gilani, President Zardari, Shahbaz Sharif, CM promised to bring the perpetrators to justice and ensure that all assistance to the victims in public hospitals.
PM Of Pakistan Deficit To Rise To 6-7pc Due To Floods
September 1, 2010
PM Of Pakistan Deficit To Rise To 6-7pc Due To Floods:Islamabad: Pakistan, the budget deficit is expected to increase to 6-7 percent of gross domestic product in the 2010/2011 fiscal year as a result of floods, the prime minister said on Wednesday.
“The budget deficit before the flood crisis is estimated to reach 4.5 percent of GDP. Now, it is estimated as 7.6 percent of GDP,” Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the cabinet.
Gilani said that the catastrophe will hit the economy.
“Floods have damaged the economy, which by some estimates could reach $ 43 billion, while affecting 30 percent of all farmland,” he said.
Pakistan’s budget deficit in 2009/10 fiscal year (July-June) amounted to 6.3 percent of GDP, the Finance Ministry said on its Web site Tuesday.
This compared with a deficit of 5,2 per cent in the 2008/09 financial year.
Monsoon floods affected an estimated 18 million people, devastated area larger than England, and destroyed more than 3.4 million hectares of farmland.
Agriculture is the mainstay of the economy, which was fragile before the floods a month ago.
Town near Larkana under water; Thatta out of danger
August 31, 2010
Town near Larkana under water; Thatta out of danger :Larkana: The floodwaters came Monday Khuhawar Gaji, a town of 40,000 people in the district of Qambar-Shahdadkot, and increasing pressure on the city Warah.
After breaks in the industry and the drain in the village Ghar Naseer Abdul Rahim Chandio, water accumulated in a pocket between Mirwah Kariyo Sabar Khan and near Warah, that threaten the city with water overflowing the dam village of Garhi Supro.
Most people had been evacuated Gaji Khuhawar. District Coordination Officer (DCO) Yaseen Shar expressed hope that efforts to save Warah succeed.
In response to a question about the disagreement between the elected representatives of Qambar-Shahdadkot and Dadu on the path of flood waters, he said political leaders had been invited to leave the water to follow their natural course as had been made in 2007. The DCO warned of ‘colossal loss in case of natural flow has been obstructed.
The DCO said influential people, including political leaders, built dikes and barriers in the Dadu district near Dhamraho Wah, preventing the flow of water.
Dadu: Shahdadkot waters from around the lake flooded Hamal Chhor-Qambar Big Buriro, Miani, Aliwal and cities in Khairpur Nathan Shah Gozo taluka on Monday. mud houses have collapsed, and stocks of grain and animals were swept away.
Thousands of people arrived in Supro Bund ineffective. About 70,000 people were affected in the towns and villages between dam and a Supro Khairpur Nathan Shah embankment.
Approximately 25,000 people in the city of Gozo could not be evacuated because of lack of transportation. The road-Gozo Big Buriro was flooded.
The water entered houses in Gozo after flooding the streets and people climbed onto roofs to escape.
The water pressure near Gozo Supro Bund constituted a threat to Khairpur Nathan Shah town. Shahmir Gadehi of Chhor-Qambar said about 200 villagers were blocked by the flow of flood waters that suddenly engulfed their homes.
Voltage before Mehar city after heavy water flow created leaks in the dike Dhamrah Wah in two places. The leaks have been plugged by local people and irrigation workers.
The tension was recorded between legislators and Dadu Qambar-Shahdadkot to Dhamrah Wah.
The administration and lawmakers wanted to cut Qambar-Shahdadkot Dhamrah Wah near Mehar to drain more water to Mehar, but PPP leader Kazi Mahesar Shafique and leaders of other parties, including former Minister Liaquat Ali Jatoi, resisted go.
Dozens of gunmen took up positions along the embankment Dhamrah Wah Khadhar the village of Ghari to thwart any attempt to make an artificial rupture.
State Minister Rafique Ahmed Jamali inspected the construction of a dike around the city Johi the gushing waters of the drain of the valley is the way to Nara Dingar.
Thatta: Flood waters surge propagation Kot violation Almo an area of 1,290 square kilometers.
After flooding a naval air base, Thatta-Badin road, a network station, the link road and Jati Sujawal city, the waters flowed towards Golarchi taluka of District Badin, an official source.
At least 987 homes and 82 scattered villages were submerged and villages near Sujawal Belo.
Among the more than 600,000 people displaced in the region, about 400,000 have been camping on the hill Makler, Jang Shahi Jhampir Ghulamullah and connecting streets and along the Hyderabad-Karachi highway.
Army Corps of Engineering is connected to the 70-meter breach in the embankment Jo Faqir Goth save flood Thatta.
A representative of a nongovernmental organization said more than 200 people have been isolated in a village near Belo and an old woman was dead.
Hadi Bux Kalhoro officials, the focus of the Committee on Disaster District, and several other government and law enforcement have been trapped by the waters along the Darro branch while they were doing rescue work on motorboat. They are stuck in the middle of the winds and currents of heavy water for about four hours before being rescued by troops.
Flood waters have also been springing to the coastal town of Chuhar Jamali after flooding the Deewan and sweets Laar and several villages.
Normality, normalcy is gradually returning to Thatta city that people have started to return Makler, where they found refuge for a flood threat.
In Makler, about 250 people displaced amidst the local police station and vehicles with stones in protest against inadequate relief efforts.
Army General Officer Commanding, Shoukat Iqbal, said that 5,000 tents have been provided to displaced persons by police in two days and the UN offered 10,000 tents.
Detained militants take hostages in army building
August 28, 2010
Peshawar: suspected militants overpowered their guards during an interrogation on Saturday in the army building in the north-western Pakistan, and took two of them hostage, the army said.
Police initially said the number of insurgents tried to break into the safe area, near the U.S. Consulate and military buildings in the city of Peshawar, a shootout between militants and security forces.
“Some of the terrorists, who were in the building for questioning overpowered them two hours during the interrogation,” military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told a private TV channel.
“The terrorists are still inside the building, we make every effort to resolve this problem,” he said.
Police said the army closed the site while the intermittent firing continued.
AFP reporter at the scene said the army and the police blocked all roads in the area, while helicopters patrolled the skies.
Bashir Bilour, provincial cabinet ministers, whose home is nearby, told AFP, that the first round of firing continued for 30 minutes.
“The soldiers also came into my hudzhra (compound visitors). I can not go outside,” he added.
There were no immediate reports of any casualties.
Bombs and attacks blamed on Taliban and al-Qaeda linked militants attacked soldiers, officials and civilians on Pakistan’s nuclear weapons from government troops besieged radical mosque in Islamabad in July 2007.
Such attacks have killed more than 3574 people over the past three years, concentrated mainly in the north-west and areas bordering Afghanistan, where U.S. and NATO troops 141000 have been fighting the Taliban for 9 years.
Roads remote control bomb on Monday killed two anti-Taliban militia men in the outskirts of Peshawar Mattni and wounding five, police said. – AFP
Ratodero Under Threat After New Breaches
August 26, 2010
Ratodero Under Threat After New Breaches :LARKANA: After overflows and breaches in the canal Khirthar, the district administration on Wednesday asked the residents of five districts near the city Ratodero – Bossan, Fatehpur, Wasayo Bhutto, Pawaro Ghulam Hussain and Hakro – to move to safe places.
Violations caused panic in the city, and some families have already fled their homes.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said the water thrown violations covered an area of about 2.5 square kilometers.
Streams, however, poses a threat not Ratodero and Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto, because of slow progress. He said that the water flow in the direction of Garhi Khairo.
The flood poured in a poor district of Jacobabad, about 30 km from Ratodero.
The Chief Minister took a bird’s-eye view and area, with provincial ministers Agha Siraj Durrani, Ayaz Soomro, Jam Saifullah Dharejo and advisor Jamil Soomro, before taking a decision on the reduction will be made to divert the flood to save Ratodero and Garhi Khuda Bakhsh Bhutto.
The Administration undertook to build a 4-kilometer embankment around Garhi Khuda Bakhsh.
Leisure Village site of the former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto. Heavy equipment was sent from Sukkur to work.
Ratodero-Jacobabad road was jammed with cars moving people to safe places.
Irrigation officials began diverting the flood to Salar Shah, reducing the road in two places.
Shafqat Wadho, supervisory engineer branch Saifullah Magsi, said that the water will be released in the lake through Hammal RBOD-III, and then the Main Nara Valley runoff.
He said that the flood protection embankment at the zero point of the lake Hammal about Ghaibidero in the Kambar-Shahdadkot, was unable to withstand the increasing pressure.
Violations RBOD-III also occurred near the village of Jatak, causing the flow to the Taluka Warah.
Kambar-Shahdadkot DCO Yasin Shar said the evacuation of vulnerable areas are and army helicopters rescued more than 150 people from Qubo Saeed Khan.
“Marooned people from surrounding areas have been converging on Qubo Saeed Khan, that they could be rescued by the authorities,” Mr Yassin said.
He said flooding near Shahdadkot become stagnant and will take several days to withdraw. DCO expressed fears that a new flood of expected violations in the channel Khirthar at RD-52, not far from the world of Mohammed Brohi Lakhapur and villages, could create more problems.
DCO said that some families returned to Shahdadkot against the power of councils and the danger was not over.
The village is the resting place of former prime ministers Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Benazir Bhutto. Heavy machinery was sent from Sukkur for the work.
The Ratodero-Jacobabad road was clogged with vehicles shifting residents to safe places.
Irrigation officials began diverting floodwaters towards Salar Shakh by cutting the road at two places.
Shafqat Wadho, the superintending engineer of Saifullah Magsi branch, said the waters would be released into Hammal lake through the RBOD-III and then the Main Nara Valley drain.
He said the flood protective embankment at the Zero Point of Hammal lake, near Ghaibidero in Qambar-Shahdadkot district, was incapable of withstanding the mounting pressure.
A breach in the RBOD-III also occurred near Jatak village, triggering a flow towards Warah taluka.
Qambar-Shahdadkot DCO Yaseen Shar said evacuation of vulnerable areas was under way and army helicopters had rescued over 150 people from Qubo Saeed Khan.
“Marooned people from adjoining areas have been converging on Qubo Saeed Khan so that they can be rescued by authorities,” Mr Yaseen said.
He said floodwaters around Shahdadkot had become stagnant and would take several days to recede. The DCO expressed fears that a fresh deluge expected from breaches in Khirthar canal at RD-52, near Mir Mohammed Brohi and Lakhapur villages, could create more problems.
The DCO said some families were returning to Shahdadkot against the authorities’ advice and the danger was not over.
Flood Washes Away Bridge Rato Dero Road Khero Garhi
August 25, 2010
Flood Washes Away Bridge Rato Dero Road Khero Garhi:LARKANA: floods washed away a small stream bridge Rato Dero-Garhi Khero Road, leaving a large number of vehicles stranded including of media present in the area of coverage.
Dozens of vehicles in the direction from Jacobabad Rato Dero also seized in connection with the closing of roads.
The collapse of the bridge not only affects the local people who are trying to leave the area to safer places, but media groups covering the situation related to floods.
No government help had reached affectees so far.
Incentives For Flood-Hit Farmers
August 25, 2010
Islamabad: The Government has decided on a number of incentives for farmers to enable them to recover losses caused by floods and the growth of major crops to meet food needs of the country.
Incentives were discussed at high-level meeting chaired by President Asif Ali Zardari in the Presidential Office on Tuesday.
Concerns were expressed at the meeting that the country could face a food crisis in the near future, as significant damage to crops from flooding.
The participants were informed that more than one million people in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan have not received relief supplies so far, because the authorities failed to reach the area, the source said.
These families were in the mountains and in remote areas where search and rescue teams have no access.
Presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said the meeting decided to encourage farmers to plant canola in the flood-affected areas early next month, and help them with seeds and other inputs and land in order to make optimum use of the land before the season Rabi wheat in November this year.
The meeting also decided to increase the purchase price of rapeseed RS1 from 600 to RS1, 800 per 40 kg.
Solvent Plant Association has already given assurances purchase crop RS1, eight hundred for 40 kg. Canola growing not only ease the pressure on the foreign exchange needed to import oil, but also improve soil fertility, the participants were informed.
The meeting was attended, among others, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, Nazar Mohammad Gondal, Mir Humayun Aziz Kurd, Rana Farooq Saeed M. Khan, M. Salman Faruqui and Zaka Ashraf.
The meeting was informed that the yield of oilseed rape followed by cotton. The President encouraged the Government to ensure free supply of rape seed to producers and help them to start early next month, which is now the best time to sow canola.
He asked the Ministry of Food and Agriculture to assess agricultural losses, including losses during storage of seeds and other agricultural products, as well as propose measures to offset losses during the autumn harvest with the coming Rabi crops.
The meeting agreed that farmers in the affected areas should be given maximum assistance in purchasing seeds and other necessary elements for their crops.
Mr. Ali Zardari has asked the president ZTBL develop a financial assistance to farmers in affected areas so that they can grow crops and compensate for their losses.
Pakistan Agricultural Research Council was asked to undertake a study on the impact of climate change as a result of unprecedented floods.
Agencies add: Mr. Ali Zardari said that Pakistan could take years to recover from the floods. The President expressed concern that militants will try to use the chaotic situation in the country.
“I see, is always such organizations and such people, using the human crisis,” he said in an interview published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, UK on Tuesday.
“Again, this problem does not allow them to take advantage of this human crisis.”
Pakistan Braced For More Floods,Aid Tops $800m
August 23, 2010
Pakistan Braced For More Floods,Aid Tops $800m:More than $ 800 million has been donated or pledged aid to flood victims in Pakistan, the foreign minister said Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of people in the south of the country feared more destruction.
Rise of water level in the province of Sindh has threatened to sow panic in the U.S. ally Pakistan in the crash, which made the government more unpopular and can help get militant supporters.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi expressed his gratitude for the $ 815.58 million in international assistance to alleviate the suffering from one of the worst catastrophes in the history of Pakistan.
“In such a situation, when the West and America and Europe are in recession, and donor fatigue is currently being discussed, this kind of solidarity in Pakistan, I think it’s very encouraging,” he said at a press conference in Islamabad. UN appealed for $ 459 million in seed money to respond.
Floods in the worst decades of destroyed villages, roads and bridges accounted for more than 4 million homeless, and expressed concern that militants would use the suffering and chaos.
Saleh Farooqui, CEO of power disaster in Sindh province, said floods have hit at least four districts, including urban areas, forcing some 200,000 people fled to the hills over the past 24 hours.
“Southern province of Sindh to our attention. We would like to send our resources for rescue operations in the direction of the field,” he said.
Officials expect the flooding to recede across the country in the next few days as the last flow of the river flows into the Arabian Sea, the state news agency reported APP.
But when that happens, millions of Pakistanis almost certainly want a government that is already constrained by a weak economy before the flood, to quickly deliver at home and compensation for loss of livestock and crops.
The government is accused of too slow and Islamic charities, some with suspected links with militant groups, moving quickly to assist the Pakistanis are already satisfied with their leadership credentials in the field of security, poverty and chronic power shortages.
“My village was flooded. We drove several hours bullcart and is now locked dispensary,” said Shazia Bibi, standing outside the center of public health in the province of Punjab.
“Where can I take my husband?” He can not sleep because of pain. Everything he eats, he vomits it. ”
Some of them were grateful for the assistance from militant charities.
“We use to think that they are terrorists, but it is not. They were the first who came to help us,” said Hidayatullah Bokhari, 45-year-old farmer. “We do not want them to become our rulers, but they are not bad guys.”
Floods can CUT COSTS STRATEGIC
Flooding is widespread due to rice-growing belt in the northern province of Sindh district by district, breaking through or flows over the embankment.
City Sindh Shahdadkot was almost deserted. Most shops are closed, but some said that they still will not go away. People who used the branches of trees and sandbags to plug holes in the embankment. “This is a place where I earn my bread and butter. I live here and die here,” said shopkeeper Mohammad Jafar.
Pakistan said last week’s floods in the mind of the country will miss 4.5 per cent this year, gross domestic product growth target, while its budget deficit is now planned to expand to more than 8 percent of GDP. Floods caused extensive damage to crops.
If you plan to spend on infrastructure, schools, factories and security forces in the former Taliban insurgent strongholds in the northwest are scrapped due to costs associated with flooding, which could jeopardize the government’s efforts to enlist public support.
“This will be a very difficult decision to make, since in both cases you are dealing with unusual emergencies,” said Asad Saeed, the director of collective social research think tank.
The military offensive failed to break the Taliban, whose suicide bombings have kept foreign companies to invest in nuclear power.
“Where is the government?” Nobody came to help us. I lost my business in the fighting between the army and militants, and now the others were washed away by floods, “said the poultry farmer has died Abdullah Gul, a resident of Swat, a former Taliban stronghold.
Half a million people live on about 5000 schools in flood-affected areas of Pakistan, where poor hygiene and sanitation, as well as crowded and stuffy, provide fertile ground for potentially deadly diseases such as cholera.
The International Monetary Fund said that the budget revision in Pakistan, and economic prospects in light of the disaster in talks with government officials on Monday.
Meetings in Washington will focus on the $ 10 billion IMF program agreed in 2008, and the budget and macroeconomic outlook will be revised due to the magnitude floods, officials said. AGENCIES
PM Gilani Sets NDMC To Monitor Aid Distribution
August 19, 2010
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday announced the setting up of National Disaster Management Oversight Board composed of people of “impeccable character” ensure the transparency and the distribution of aid to flood affected people.
Addressing the meeting of the National Disaster Management Commission, Gilani said the board with immediate effect.
Detailed advice will be announced later.
“I myself will supervise the relief and rehabilitation process for flood victims to get it done in a transparent manner,” he said.
The Militants, Police Clash In Peshawar, Khyber
August 18, 2010
The militants attacked police posts in Pakistan in the northwest and killed two civilians working in the fight against the Taliban, police said medium.
With militants killed two of the first members of the militia in the area of Peshawar Adezai, as they headed to pray at the mosque Tuesday night, said Liaquat Ali Khan, police chief of Peshawar.
Within a few hours after dozens of militants from the Khyber tribal region attacked police posts in the area Sarband Peshawar. The two sides exchanged fire for about an hour before the militants retreated into Khyber, said Khan.
He said several militants were killed, but there were no police casualties.
Clashes rebels offer are not abandoning his campaign against the state, despite the floods, which affected about 20 million people – or 1 in 9 Pakistanis.
”When the police forces are engaged in search and rescue operations on the flow of affectees, gunmen tried to exploit the situation to attack Peshawar, but the police forces are fully alert and vigilant,”said Khan.
