Tag: Flood

Flood- affected families in search of help

Mai Shahzadi and her four children are among more than a quarter of a million people living in temporary settlements following monsoon floods that...

Rs.71bn disbursed transparently amongst flood victims: NADRA

National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has resolved 377,526 appeals through Grievance Redressal System for the Citizen Damage Compensation Program (CDCP) Phase-II. The CDCP Phase-II...

Parliament’s body on flood-affected areas to meet today

A parliamentary panel will meet today (Tuesday) to discuss visitations to the rain/flood hit areas of Sindh and Balochistan Province and to suggest remedial...

3.1m flood victims vaccinated and rehabilitated, says CM

Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that at least 3.1 million flood displaced people hailing from seven districts of the province had...

UN to provide $10m to help flood affected people in Pakistan

The United Nations (UN) will allocate close to $10 million to provide aid for more than one million people living in the flood-hit areas...

EU grants Pakistan flood, unrest aid

The European Commission said Thursday it will release another 15 million euros in aid ($19 million) to Pakistan where tens of thousands of people...

PM visits rain‚ flood hit areas in Balochistan

Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf visited rain and flood hit areas in Balochistan on Sunday to review relief efforts for the rehabilitation of affected...

Flood compensation after assessment, says Ashraf

Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said on Saturday that the federal government is currently collecting the data on the damages caused by rain and...

Balochistan flood victims at risk of contracting malaria

Tens of thousands of people, sheltering along roadsides and canals in the flood-ravaged region of Balochistan, face the risk of contacting malaria infection. Sources...

Flood affected population awaits govt aid, epidemics grip destroyed areas

Thousands of flashflood and rain affected population of Balochistan, Sindh and Southern Punjab still await government relief aid and epidemics have gripped various areas...

Flood fear looms large

Floods that were feared to submerge Jacobabad are still due primarily to 50 foot and 100 foot breaches in Noorwah canal at Tel and...

Flood fears still loom for Jaccobabad

Floods are feared to submerge Jacobabad still due primarily to a 50 foot and 100 foot breaches in Noorwah canal at Tel and Sem...

PM announces Rs2 bln package for rain‚ flood affectees of Sindh

The Prime Minister who visited rain and flood hit areas of the province on Sunday directed to immediately release seven hundred and ten million...

Thousands marooned as water inundates dozens of villages in Balochistan, Sindh

Dozens of villages were inundated after floodwater entered Jacobabad and Kandhkot on Saturday, while flooding in Balochistan has left at least half a million...

CM constitutes flood rehabilitation committee under Sanaullah

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has constituted a 14-member committee headed by Provincial Minister for Law Rana Sanaullah for assessing the financial and human...

Floods wreak devastation across country, death toll reaches 150

Floods triggered by monsoon rainfall have wreaked vast devastation across the country. The government officials have confirmed 89 deaths caused by floods while the...

Over 500 villages submerged in Naseerabad

A huge torrent of floodwater ravaged its way through Chhatar and Lehri into Rabi area of district Naseerabad early Tuesday inundating over 500 villages. Several...