The furious flooding in the Indus River threatens Rojhan, the native town of former prime minister Balakh Sher Mazari, and residents have started evacuating the town. Irrigation Department officials and local residents are trying to save the town by monitoring the dykes.
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif visited Kot Mithan on Tuesday and distributed relief goods to the flood affected people in a relief camp. On the occasion, he said that after receding of flood waters, losses would be assessed and victims compensated. On Wednesday, he visited Jampur while Governor Salmaan Taseer took aerial view of flood hit areas of Dera Ghazi Khan.
According to the assessment of commissioner officer, two million people have been displaced while more than 100,000 people were injured during evacuation. RELIEF CAMPS:
Only 3,200 tents were distributed to the affected people in the district while the number of displace people is in hundreds of thousands. In Dera Ghazi Khan division, 140 relief camps have been established.
The residents of the Guja Bihar Sial locality, near Ghazi Ghat bridge, complained that they had seen many VIPs coming to them for photo session in the last seven days while aid had yet to reach them.
This village and Adda Rind Wala are easily approachable and has been visited by the chief minister, Senior Adviser to the Chief Minister Zulfiqar Khosa, government officers, and politicians. The residents say they would got only speeches and pledges while aid has yet to be delivered to them.
The post-flood phenomenon looks bleak as famine and epidemic among children and women while anger in men is brewing.
The government is facing problems in getting relief supplies from Multan after the closure of Dera Ghazi Khan-Multan Road four days ago.
In Dera Ghazi Khan, petrol is being sold at Rs200 per liter. Though the government has claimed that DG Khan-Multan Road will be restored in three of four days, a displaced dweller of Ghazi Ghat told Dawn floodwater was crossing the road and the restoration work could not be carried out. The government plans to build two temporary bridges on Dera-Multan Road.
District Coordination Officer Iftikhar Ali Sahu said they would take three or four days to restore traffic on Dera-Multan Road. Engineers visited the breach place on the road but they could not start work as they had no equipment to gauge the water.
Sources say five trucks laden with iron nets have been sent to Taunsa Barrage to plug a 4,000-foot breach in the LMB spur.
A spokesman of Chemists` Association in DG Khan said they were left with three-day stock of drugs. According to the Irrigation Department, there was an 800,000 cusecs high flood at Taunsa Barrage, of which 200,000 cusec was gushing out of the LMB breach inundating parts of Muzaffargarh district.
Breaches in dykes of Jampur could not be plugged and 2,000 cusec of floodwater was still passing through the streets and roads of city.
Floods in the Indus River have already inundated hundreds of villages and several towns along either bank and displaced tens of thousands of people and their livestock.Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif visited Kot Mithan on Tuesday and distributed relief goods to the flood affected people in a relief camp. On the occasion, he said that after receding of flood waters, losses would be assessed and victims compensated. On Wednesday, he visited Jampur while Governor Salmaan Taseer took aerial view of flood hit areas of Dera Ghazi Khan.
According to the assessment of commissioner officer, two million people have been displaced while more than 100,000 people were injured during evacuation. RELIEF CAMPS:
Only 3,200 tents were distributed to the affected people in the district while the number of displace people is in hundreds of thousands. In Dera Ghazi Khan division, 140 relief camps have been established.
The residents of the Guja Bihar Sial locality, near Ghazi Ghat bridge, complained that they had seen many VIPs coming to them for photo session in the last seven days while aid had yet to reach them.
This village and Adda Rind Wala are easily approachable and has been visited by the chief minister, Senior Adviser to the Chief Minister Zulfiqar Khosa, government officers, and politicians. The residents say they would got only speeches and pledges while aid has yet to be delivered to them.
The post-flood phenomenon looks bleak as famine and epidemic among children and women while anger in men is brewing.
The government is facing problems in getting relief supplies from Multan after the closure of Dera Ghazi Khan-Multan Road four days ago.
In Dera Ghazi Khan, petrol is being sold at Rs200 per liter. Though the government has claimed that DG Khan-Multan Road will be restored in three of four days, a displaced dweller of Ghazi Ghat told Dawn floodwater was crossing the road and the restoration work could not be carried out. The government plans to build two temporary bridges on Dera-Multan Road.
District Coordination Officer Iftikhar Ali Sahu said they would take three or four days to restore traffic on Dera-Multan Road. Engineers visited the breach place on the road but they could not start work as they had no equipment to gauge the water.
Sources say five trucks laden with iron nets have been sent to Taunsa Barrage to plug a 4,000-foot breach in the LMB spur.
A spokesman of Chemists` Association in DG Khan said they were left with three-day stock of drugs. According to the Irrigation Department, there was an 800,000 cusecs high flood at Taunsa Barrage, of which 200,000 cusec was gushing out of the LMB breach inundating parts of Muzaffargarh district.
