Tag: Flood

SAHIWAL - Disasters leave many stories behind and some of these stories become examples of sacrifice while some show the cruelty and inhumanity of the society. Similarly, the recent floods in the country have given birth to different stories. Punjab Lok-Rahas has picked up a few stories from Rajanpur and enacted them in a 40-minute one-act play named Mahno Kahani.
The play was performed in the lawns of Sahiwal Elementary College for Teachers on Tuesday while around 500 students

LAHORE - Coca-Cola, the world's largest beverage company, has joined hands with International Relief & Development (IRD), a US based non-profit company, to help small-holder farmers in the flood damaged district of Muzaffargarh recover.
IRD, with support of Coca-Cola, will provide essential input package for the recovery of sugarcane crop. The overall goal of the project is to ensure improved livelihood and food security for vulnerable households.

DOHA - All ticket revenue from the Asian Cup semi-finals on Tuesday will be donated to help flood victims in Australia, Sri Lanka and Thailand, organisers said.
A joint statement by Asian Football Confederation (AFC) president Mohamed Bin Hammam and Qatar Football Association (QFA) chief Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Bin Ahmed Al Thani said the flooding had been tragic. "Our thoughts and wishes go to all those who suffer in our fellow Asian nations of Australia, Thailand and Sri

LAHORE - Survivors of the 2005 earthquake and the 2010 floods are facing acute problems including abuse, exploitation for distribution of resources especially for unaccompanied women, Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi Lecturer Salman Haider said on Tuesday while presenting his research paper at a seminar.
The seminar, Findings on Internally Displaced Persons with Special Focus on Women, was organised by the Legislative Watch Group of the Aurat Foundation, Lahore. The

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and Japan signed on Friday a soft loan agreement
of $233 million out of $500 million pledged by it at the Pakistan Development Forum last year in November for early rehabilitation of the flood affectees.
Japanese Ambassador Chihiro Atsumi and Economic Affairs Division Secretary Sibtain Fazal Halim signed the agreement. Under the arrangement, $ 59 million would be for budgetary support while $ 174 million would be utilised for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Rural Road

RIO DE JANEIRO - The number of people killed in a flooding disaster near Rio de Janeiro last week could top 1,000, according to official figures released on Friday showing 400 people still missing.
The latest confirmed toll of recovered bodies from the flash floods and mudslides that struck the Serrana mountain region near Rio January 12 stood at 759.
Most of the 400 people reported missing were presumed dead, as emergency workers and soldiers continued to dig through mud

LAHORE - The Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs Summit (YLES), 2011 kicked off on Wednesday at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Sports Complex with an exciting opening ceremony. This year, theme of YLES is Rural Entrepreneurship and according to organisers, the topic has become particularly important after the recent floods.
The ceremony featured instrumental band Quadrum, as the name suggests, the quartet with four drums offered a unique musical experience. With

KARACHI - Civil society activists on Thursday termed foreign debt a political issue rather than an economical one that is used as a tool for domination over the poor country.
Delivering presentations at a seminar titled 'Debt Cancellation for Rehabilitation,' organised by the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) in collaboration with Oxfam, the speakers demanded the cancellation of debts to help flood survivors. The seminar was a part of series of a debt cancellation campaign.
In

TERESOPOLIS - Brazil is suffering its worst-ever flood disaster after mudslides near Rio de Janeiro this week killed more than 500 people, media compiling the deaths said Friday.
Municipal officials in the Serrana region just north of Rio said at least 506 people were killed, surpassing the 437 killed in a 1967 mudslide tragedy that had been previously considered Brazil's biggest disaster. More bodies were expected to turn up as rescuers finally reached villages cut off because

BATTICALOA - Fresh rains Friday compounded the misery of the million-plus victims of Sri Lanka's deadly floods, as relief workers struggled to bring crucial supplies to the worst-affected regions. After a brief respite overnight, renewed downpours battered the island's central and eastern districts where 27 people have been killed by the flood waters and mudslides.
"The situation is clearly worsening," said Paula Alvarado, a regional spokesman for the International Federation of

BRISBANE - Australia's third-largest city Brisbane resembled a "war zone" Thursday with whole suburbs under water and infrastructure smashed as the worst flood in decades hit 30,000 properties.
Shocked evacuees surveyed the damage after floods that have swept eastern Australia peaked about a metre (three feet) below feared levels around dawn, sparing thousands more properties in the besieged river city. Queensland's tearful state premier Anna Bligh said relief was tinged with

SYDNEY - Australian football star Tim Cahill and his Socceroo teammates have led the domestic sports community in fundraising for victims of the Queensland floods. Nine people have died and 66 were missing after flash floods swept through parts of Australia's eastern state on Monday.
Everton midfielder Cahill dedicated his two-goal performance in Australia's 4-0 Asian Cup win over India in Doha on Monday to families affected by the floods. Cahill used his goal celebrations to

ISLAMABAD - An Australian oil and gas company operating in Pakistan has handed over 49 houses, built at a cost of Rs 6.0 million, to the flood victims' homeless families in Isakhel district of Mianwali, to mitigate their sufferings in the severe winters.
The houses have been constructed at one of the worst hit villages at Sharifabad in Isakhel, located along the Kunhar river and have been provided to the widows and the elderly on priority. The Combined Engineering and Integrated

ISLAMABAD: National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has launched a complaints redressal system to facilitate all those registered people in flood-affected areas that could not become part of Flood Relief System due to some problem.
NADRA Deputy Chairman Tariq Malik said in a statement issued on Tuesday that the system is mainly to identify the registered beneficiaries left over in flood affected areas and to make an effective mechanism that would yield transparent

ISLAMABAD - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced on Saturday a concessional loan of $ 400 million for the post-flood rehabilitation and an additional grant of $10 million for the flood-affected citizens' compensation programme.
Speaking at the National Disaster Management Authority on Saturday, Jiabao said China would continue to help Pakistan in the post-flood rehabilitation in the affected areas China would provide assistance for the repair of damaged infrastructure and

KARACHI: The Sindh government is planning to give away plots to flood survivors in Gadap and Bin Qasim towns of Karachi. While visiting the relief camps in Razzakabad and Malir, Sindh Rehabilitation Minister Haji Muzaffar Shujra said the government would construct 30,000 houses in the first phase for underprivileged people and flood survivors of the province. "The government will fulfil all promises made to the flood survivors. President Asif Ali Zardari is taking special interest in

KARACHI: Flood survivors, particularly pregnant women are forced to return in camps instead of staying in their flood-ravaged villages in Sindh, according to the data collected by Pakistan Today.
"The floods have destroyed Basic Health Units (BHUs) in rural areas, leaving people with no option but to go back to camps near bigger cities. Hospitals, those left standing, are unable to handle the sheer number of cases that have descended upon them," said Azra Memon, president of the