floods

NA’s standing committee on food and agriculture met to discuss losses incurred by agriculture sector by the floods.

SHC directs provincial law officer to submit commission report at next hearing.

Indus River Commission has approved a Rs200m plan to move earthwork on dykes.

NGO Roshni Helpline preparing database of missing children from camps.

Ghulam Ali Shah Pasha urges NADRA to upload records so that the survivors can be issued Watan cards.

Students lobbying for VIPs to skip Swat from their itineraries during tours that create hardship for local population.

Website to help federal and provincial govts in terms of checking up on status of operations in flood-hit areas.

Watan Card distribution begins in Swat and Buner, flood victims dissatisfied with sum of money.

Balochistan government fails to provide Watan cards to flood victims as they move back to their flood-hit homes.

Boundary wall and floor of temple were damaged in the floods and are yet to be repaired.

RPO Sukkur believes criminals, disguised as flood survivors, have entered major cities.

Karachi’s biggest cattle market has opened for business ahead of Eid-ul Azha but so far traders are glum.

Sindh government has spent Rs300m on flood survivors in Karachi.

Currently facing a shortage of $130 million, Unicef warns it may be shutting down offices if funds not met on time.

Flood survivors discuss their plans for the Rs20,000 compensation.

CM had directed the CMIT to look into the allegations of irregularities and corruption in Watan Card distribution.

WFP will eliminate sugar, and maybe also tea, from the food basket it is distributing among flood victims.

Around 20,000 people deprived of monetary compensation, govt says Jacobabad city not directly affected by the flood.

Analysts worry that the economic effects of the floods may fuel religious extremism.

Provincial govt uses outdated identification records to compile information for Watan card distribution.

Donors and global financial institutions are asked to channel their funding through the government.

Bangladesh and India are on the first and second place for being at extreme risk of climate change, Pakistan at 16.

From ‘posing’ IDPs to corrupt agents, distribution of relief remains problematic for both victims and organisers.

At least 7m people still without shelter months after catastrophic floods devastated huge parts of the country.

The two villages flooded are Mehboob Chandio and Ali Sher Magsi.

Floods have two-fold impact in Swat Valley: it has destroyed infrastructure and washed away valuable farmland.

Delegation from China Institute of Water and Hydro Power Research chalks out a strategy to deal with floods in Sindh.

Promises, it appears, are made to be broken and governmental promises definitely so.

Shahbaz promises to construct 6,000 modern houses in the flood affected areas of Punjab.

Children at The Citizens Foundation schools go back but with plenty of bad memories of the water.

Who do we blame for the flood? Other than some govt officials nobody thinks it was a natural catastrophe.

UK extends support to ensure food aid reaches flood stricken families after floods destroyed 2m hectares of crops.

Among the privileged youth concern for justice, empathy for the disadvantaged and desire to give back is prevalent.

Flood victims block roads and break windows over govt ‘apathy.'

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation to begin distribution in Sindh and then in Balochistan.

Small farmers – those having less than 25 acres of land – would be eligible for receiving Rs2,400 per acre.

New satellite images from the NASA show that thousands of square miles of land in Sindh remain submerged under water.

Turkish delegation says govt would cooperate in rehabilitation process in SiNdh.

Government must relocate IDPs before the end of October: EDO education.

Conference calls for protection of social and economic rights of rural women and recognition of their contribution.

Sindh govt labels charges as politically motivated.

FM says reconciliation was "basically an Afghan initiative", but that Pakistan was there to facilitate.

Hundreds of people from the coastal areas of the city took to the streets to demand the cancellation of foreign debt.

WB, ADB joint assessment estimate almost five times less than what had been claimed by govt.

Projects to strengthen the River Indus embankments and canals have been approved by the Indus River Commission.

Damage inflicted to property, crops and infrastructure equal $9.5 billion according to assessment by ADB, WB.

This public discourse is missing in Pakistan and needs to be initiated so that we move forward from this calamity.

Those who reach out and help those affected by the floods should not treat them as beggars.

We need a set of robust public policy responses to resolve issues of education and unemployment.

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