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.
1 More Dead In Karachi Target Killings
August 17, 2010
One person was killed in the incident of premeditated murder in Karachi on Tuesday, television reports quoted sources as saying.
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a Maulana Furqan, when he was on his way home after the imam during prayer Fajr.
Furkan was taken to hospital but died of his wounds shortly after it was reported that.
Zardari And Kayani Discuss Security,Relief Activities
August 16, 2010
Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani called on President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday and discussed matters relating to the security situation in the country.
In a meeting held in Aiwan-i-Sadr, the activities of the army of Pakistan on relief and rescue operations in flood affected areas were also discussed.
1 killed And 18 Injured In Aerial Firing:Hyderabad
August 14, 2010
One person was killed and 18 injured during the celebration of Independence Day aerial shooting in Hyderabad on Saturday.
According to sources, there are various rallies in Hyderabad on Friday evening. People from the celebration of the beginning of aerial gunnery by which one person was killed and 18 wounded in different parts of the city.
10 People killed In Road Crash In Mach Tehsil
August 13, 2010
At least 10 people were killed and 13 injured when a van collided with a trailer with Mach Tehsil on Thursday.
The accident occurred when the driver lost control of the trailer, police said.
The victims were taken to Civil Hospital Quetta.
Staging area for staff reached the spot and took two cars into custody.
1,000 People killed In Target Killing In Karachi
August 12, 2010
1,000 People killed In Target Killing In Karachi:Capital Police (CCPO) Karachi, Waseem Ahmed on Thursday showed that more than 1000 people were killed over the past seven months in the city.
Ahmed said that in 1000 more than 200 victims of targeted killings. Police managed to arrest several persons involved in the killings, he added.
The police chief said that more than 300 settlements of the city have been declared sensitive.
We also have information about groups planning of ethnic and religious strife during the holy month of Ramadan, Ahmed warned.
Instructions have been issued to enhance security measures within a month, he added.
