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Most of the water channels near the district are filled with water but it is not fit to use.

Water level rising in river as inflow becomes 28,000 cusecs and outflow 24,000.

Over 90,600 flood victims living in 350 relief camps; a third of all patients are suffering from some disease.

Villages in 2 districts are being evacuated, gastro epidemic reported in villages.

Launches telehealth service facility, calls for a consultative report on LBOD project.

PDMA says the inundated current in the river will be the biggest in 15 years.

Shahbaz Sharif brings along a caravan of peace, promises more aid.

NDMA and PDMA tell international agencies they are managing well on their own.

Badin’s been left with one to two days’ supply of drinking water.

It is unfortunate that despite being a disaster-prone country, people still continue to suffer year after year: Oxfam.

Several reports of evacuations in two districts.

Desperate farmers in Tando Mohammad Khan and Badin turn on each other.

District administration faced with protests as they have no supplies to help.

The speaker slams disaster management authorities for not doing their job.

Relief camps, around 240 of them, have now been established to house the over 60,000 people displaced from Badin.

A flash flood of 71,000 cusecs is expect­ed to pass by Mian Channu as the water level in the River Ravi rose today.

Army, navy initiate relief operation in Badin.

Prevention is abandoned for cure as rain-ravaged areas call for help.

Picking had just begun for the bumper cotton crop a day before the rains.

Three die at Badin relief camp as a result of diarrhea. Protestors storm DCO's office.

Shahbaz Sharif exhausted the helicopter’s flying hours on monitoring development work in far-flung districts.

Mirza suggests draining sewage into semi-Indian lake.

One hopes that at least some prevention measures will be put in place to minimise further displacement and losses.

NA speaker says rains have affected 90% of 1.8 million people of Badin.

Water from River Jhelum inundates Okhli Mohla village in Khushab.

Nearly 80% of crops destroyed, 0.1m people displaced so far.

NDMA made this statem­ent during briefi­ng to Prime Minist­er Gilani on his visit to affect­ed areas.

A nullah in Sialkot has flooded with 19,500 cusecs of water.

Families of people who died because of the rains will be given Rs100,000.

District govt arranges food, water, health and education facilities at 86 relief camps.

Met Dept says more rain coming this way in the next 24 hours.

Mirpurkhas worst affected with 15 people being killed in torrential rains.

Perception remains that katchi abadi residents are second-class citizens

Three tehsils, about 700,000 people evacuated as a pre-emptive measure.

Electricity and telephone coverage cut off from 2:30 am on Wednesday.

CDA asks for an overhaul of Parliament House, Presidency and SC building to protect them from cloudbursts.

Hundreds of acres of agricultural land were also inundated.

Pakistan has faced over 150 major natural disasters in the last 65 years.

According to the Flood Forecasting Division the reserve of usable water at Tarbela Dam is 3.672 million acre feet.

The incident couldn’t immediately be reported owing to poor communication in the area as a result of the...

We can’t stop giving flood survivors help yet: World Vision.

Houses, crops in the remote village were swept away by flooding on Saturday.