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Encroachments on storm drains should be removed to mitigate flood damages

Over Rs10b required to resume agriculture in flood-hit districts: report

At least 54 people lost their lives and another 87 sustained injuries in the calamity

Displaced villagers complain of inadequate compensation

Funds disbursed to flood-affected people without any payout formula

Locals complain patwari takes bribes to guarantee compensation

They say the government has distributed aid unevenly and many still await relief

Floods were triggered by climate-induced cloud-bursts but the destruction multiplied due to poor government planning

Decades-old bookshop in Srinagar suffers massive loss of more than 350,000 books during last month’s devastating flood

Initial figures issued by the various govt departments were exaggerated

Says political activities of leaders of protesting parties are confined to their air-conditioned containers.

PM says it is his duty to help flood victims and will not rest until they are rehabilitated

Leaders call for international assistance for flood-affected people

Nawaz says he won’t rest till victims are compensated

Sharif says first phase of compensation distribution among flood affectees completed. Second phase from October 20

Premier visits Jhang, says will not rest until all flood victims were rehabilitated

Ashraf said Rs5.28 million had been distributed among 21,173 families in south Punjab.

Halim Sheikh urges coordinated climate change policy

Nawaz says govt is committed to complete rehabilitation of flood affected people

A consignment – comprising 12 truckloads of relief items – was returned from the Line of Control

It appears that the government is sitting on money that could be used for reconstruction and rehabilitation

Estimates suggest Pakistan can meet cost of reconstruction & rehabilitation without assistance

Flood victims say relief centres have been turning them away because they do not have orders to compensate them

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif promises flood-prevention

Visits flood-hit Wazirabad where PML-N workers scuffle with a crowd chanting ‘Go Nawaz, Go’.

Departments told to engage UNDP, WB and ADB for damage need assessments.

PDB report says infrastructure in Jhang was badly damaged.

In first phase, flood victims will be provided Rs25,000. In second phase compensation will be based on damage survey

The plan approved by the CM is based on the 2010 flood relief policy.

Yasin Malik says India is not concentrating on the destruction caused by the floods in Kashmir

Ministry official tells Senate panel that the flood and not sit-ins triggered inflation

Outbreak of deadly epidemics feared, medicines missing.

Minister says disbursements to flood victims to start on Saturday

Governments have managed to bungle, fudge, prevaricate & generally cock-up national responses to repeated inundations

Senate panel to lodge protest via Foreign Office against discriminatory attitude in providing relief in Kashmir

Senators urge India to stop discriminatory attitude in providing relief to flood affected people of Indian Kashmir.

Legislative assembly passes resolution, seeks UN, EU and other aid agencies’ help for border opening.

Chief minister said France is an important country of European Union and Pakistan wanted to maintain good relations

Pakistan needs to focus on increasing and conserving its water storage capacity, which is already down by 30 per cent.

Govt of Pakistan-administered Kashmir issued a resolution calling for the United Nations to intervene

Ban Ki-moon praises govt’s efforts in providing relief to flood survivors

Latif Akbar says Indian army did not bother to rescue locals in the region

Officials continue to recover the dead even as scale of damage has yet to be assessed

Tales of people abandoned, families separated, children left to fend for themselves.

Residents worry history may have repeated itself as officials 'ignore' Old Tori Bund.

Billions lost in damages to roads, electricity lines, property and govt infrastructure.

Kashmir’s ongoing struggle to cope with the recent floods

Officials expect road rehabilitation to take at least 7 days

Adviser to chief minister of Balochistan says dams create floods, not prevent them

Officials at Kotri Barrage expect much less floodwater than anticipated .