Heavy rain, floods kill 14 in Pakistan: Officials
Irshad Bhatti, a spokesman for the country’s National Disaster Management Authority said the death toll may rise as survey teams have reported more deaths but are still assessing the extent of damages.
Most of the deaths were reported in the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where nine people died and more than 50 houses were destroyed. In Pakistan-administered Kashmir, six people were killed after a roof collapsed.
“The death toll may rise, we are assessing the damages. Rescue work is continuing and relief activities have started,” Bhatti said.
Adnan Khan, an official from the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa confirmed the death toll and said he feared more deaths.
“Dozens of families have suffered and their houses were destroyed, several people are still missing” Khan told AFP.
Floods in Pakistan in the summer of 2011 affected 5.8 million people, with floodwaters killing livestock, destroying crops, homes and infrastructure as the nation struggled to recover from record inundations the previous year.
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@Hardliner:
Genius Kalabagh dam is downstream from northern and central KPK. Hence by shutting the leeway’s of a dam you would only make this whole flood thing worse.
Buildings are beautiful and colourful. That reminds me of Latin American countries! . What is the name of that building. Would love to visit when water recedes.
Ehhhh! The fate of pakistanis,when it remain arid people lament for shortage of water but the divine pouring bless the region people cry for floodings....!
@Awans, I vote for kalabagh dam, but some stats in your comment need correction. Kalabagh dam requires $8 billion while basha dam requires $12 billion. Similarly, Kalabagh cant be constructed in less than 5 years. You can do a bit more research on this. Agreed with other things you mentioned. Good views.
This is where water car may come handy.
@ME_: How is he a racist????
The very name KPK is racist as it excludes other communities. We have to listen to racist comments by ANP day in and day out ( have yoû ever heard the anti- Punjab nonsense coming out of Haji Adeel day in and day out).
The fact is that Kalabagh should be made immediately. We need a clean source of energy and water management.
KPK and Afganistan cannot survive without the wheat from Punjab yet they are constantly incolved in anti-Punjab rhetoric and do nothing positive for water management.
At least start by paying bills on time in KPK..
@Kaleem: Ditto! Exactly the same words were being used back then -- "Nowshera will drown!!!" See what happened actually -- the dam would have actually stored most if not all of that water. When will we learn?
@Awans: Have you visited Tarbela ? have you seen the water-logging and salinity that has been caused due to the Tarbela Dam ? why is Punjab so against the construction of Basha Dam ? if you want answers I can provide you very solid ones ...
@Hardliner: Before you mouth off with your incomplete knowledge of the so called Kalabagh Dam, you should study the report and then write some intelligent comments. The fact is that Noshehra and Charsadda areas will be inundated with that reservoir and Mardan lands will be water logged and render useless. Sure Punjab province will benefit but not the people of the said cities. Pakistan government has still to pay the people who were displaced by Tarbala and Mangla Dams and how they will compensate the inhabitants of that whole area, go back to some library and study the report, it will open your eyes.
NDMA should do an informed study mapping out the chock points in flow of flood water and mitigate them.
Pakistan should build micro /mini dams to store water
The solution is not to Cut Trees and Stop the Tree Mafia and plant new trees on Mountains and upper areas...
Startled about the forecasts of our Meteorology Department. First they said there will be 20% more rains and then they said the rain system has gone and there will be less rains but see there are more rains and flood situations.
^^ Even dams cannot solve the flooding problem. they only delay it. once the dam is full they must release water which will cause the same flooding. better option is to work on the levees, catchment areas, cleaning of the rivers and managing water by diverting it to different rivers and canals.
@Hardliner: Kalabagh could not have sustained the floods of 2010, in its presence only people of one region would have been washed out and you seem to be quite okay with it. Other than floods, who will pay for the fertile lands that would be reduced to swaps given that IDPs from the same region are still waiting for the promised compensation
Another flood expected.....But still, we shall cut those hands that move towards building the Kalabagh dam!!! Pathetic!!