Tag: Flood

Torrential rain in two drought-stricken central China provinces triggered landslides and brought down houses, killing at least 44 people and leaving 33 missing, state...

Rain-triggered floods have killed 24 people in China over the past week, with three new deaths reported in east China's Jiangsu Province, the local...

The Supreme Court (SC) told the federal and provincial governments on Tuesday to ensure implementation of the recommendations of the Flood Inquiry Commission in...

A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, on Tuesday declared the judgment on the flood commission report...

British charity Oxfam on Sunday launched an investigation into "financial irregularities" in their Pakistan flood relief operation. Accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers is conducting an...

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has asked the new Secretary of the Ministry of Water and Power to ensure that the early warning...

The officials of the Irrigation Department and the district administration were directed during a meeting on Saturday to repair flood-protective bunds within the stipulated...

Faisalabad - As Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was handing over the keys of 106 new houses built in Basti Mulla Miran, Muzaffargarh, among the flood victims last week, a man in Faisalabad sitting hundreds of miles away watching the ceremony on TV channels was humbled and elevated both at the same time. Humbled because he had tried to share with the residents of Basti Mulla Miran inestimable bounties showered upon him by Allah. And a sense of elevation gripped his mind because he

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani sought United Nations' assistance in developing flood forecasting and early weather warning system for Pakistan before the monsoon season.
Talking to Rauf Engin Soysal, Special Envoy of the UN Secretary General for Assistance to Pakistan at the PM House, Gilani appreciated UN's support and Special Envoy's dedicated work for the flood affected people of the country.
The Prime Minister lauded the personal commitment of

KARACHI - Speakers at a seminar on the rehabilitation of flood affected people - with the focus on 'choices imposed and choices made' - have demanded that the lands of Karachi, allotted to the people of other provinces, should be given to the flood survivors of Sindh.
"The flood-affected people living in relief camps are being forced to leave the city," they added. The seminar was organised at the Jashn-e-Faiz event by the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research

KARACHI - Despite the passage of over eight months, thousands of survivors of the unprecedented monsoon floods last year in Thatta district have not unable to start their routine life again.
Though the majority of these flood survivors, who were displaced from their native residences during the floods, have returned to their homes, they are still emotionally and economically troubled. Most of them are afraid of more floods in the next monsoon starting in August. Many

KARACHI - Flood survivors of at least seven flood-ravaged districts of Sindh are likely to be compensated by the federal government for their losses suffered during last year's devastating floods, but only after a thorough survey of actual losses has been completed.
Well-placed sources told Pakistan Today that the decision to this effect was taken at a high-level meeting held in the federal capital recently, so that the flood-affected families could be provided with some

ISLAMABAD - Considering the last day in office an appropriate opportunity to give some advice, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chairman Lt General (r) Nadeem Ahmed Wednesday stressed the need to sensitise the government that Pakistan could not afford another flood.
said an amount of US$610.353 million was required to bridge the gap between the needs of the vulnerable people and the funding. "It is a duty of every one of us, the media and the people at large to

LAHORE - The Judicial Flood Inquiry Tribunal (JFIT) registrar handed over a judicial inquiry report on canal and spur breaches during floods to the Punjab Home Secretary in a ceremony held at the Lahore High Court on Monday.
JFIT Registrar Irfan Saeed said the Judicial Flood Inquiry Tribunal by the Chairman Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah and members Abdul Sattar Shakir and Shafqat Masood completed the report "A Rude Awakening" consisting 475 pages supported by 91 appendices spread

ISLAMABAD - Around 70 percent of people affected by floods in Pakistan have said that their top priority was employment and not the financial assistance, said a survey conducted by international agency Oxfam.
According to the survey report, made public on Wednesday in a press conference, around 2,040 people, between 15 and 24 January 2011 were interviewed in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh provinces, which provide a compelling insight into the needs and desires

ISLAMABAD - The European Union (EU) has contributed 15 million euros (around US$ 21.2 million) to support the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) work of early recovery in Pakistan's flood devastated areas.
The EU contribution aims at restoring livelihoods through job creation, repairing basic community infrastructure and strengthening the local government offices through the UNDP's 'Early Recovery Programme' for restoring public services again, said a press release

BANGKOK - The death toll from heavy flooding in southern Thailand has risen to 40, the government said Sunday, with thousands of people forced to live in temporary shelters.
More than a week of heavy rain -- in what is usually one of the hottest months -- has caused floods in 10 of Thailand's 77 provinces, submerging homes, triggering landslides and washing away roads and bridges.
As of Sunday, the death toll stood at 17 in hard-hit Nakhon Si Thammarat province, 10 in Surat