Everyone is busy discussing Afghanistans grand plans to annex the pronvince of NWFP or busy bashing Musharrafs regime or even the matooz, whereas they forgot about how Pakistans number one problem at present are the floods these days. So many homeless people. Lets find some online sites accepting donations for those affected and post them here. We can make a difference.
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agreed..if anyone finds any sites or organisations involved in relief work or would like to post updates on the devastation the floods are causing please post here
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Siraj appeals to centre to help NWFP with relief work
- Senior minister says floods caused Rs 5b loss to farmers
- 14,000 houses affected in Charsadda, Nowshera, Peshawar, Chitral and Swat
Staff Report
PESHAWAR: NWFP Senior Minister Sirajul Haq has appealed to the federal government, Muslim world and international donor agencies to help the flood-hit areas in the province before the flood could devastate a large number of people.
“The water level may rise more with the advent of the moon soon rains and the recent heavy rains in Afghanistan. The situation could get out of control in the coming days and the province needs financial help because its own resources are insufficient to meet the impending danger,” he told a press conference on Sunday. Accompanied by ministers Hafiz Hashmat Khan, Asif Iqbal Daudzai, he said that they had visited the affected areas by boat and witnessed the situation was alarming.
He said that flood from Afghanistan could enter Pakistan within three days through the Kabul River and the snow melting on the hills in Swat, Dir and Kohistan could raise the water level. He said that the water storage capacity of the Warsak Dam had come down from 550,000 cusecs feet to zero level due to sedimentation and that now the inflow and outflow from the dam was same.
Mr Siraj said that 400,000 acres of land had been inundated by the flood and a loss worth Rs 5 billion had been estimated. He said that crops had been destroyed and around 14,000 houses affected in Charsadda, Nowshera, Peshawar, Chitral, Swat and other district of the province. He said that the flood-warning centre had reported that a water rise in the Swat River was likely to reach 170,000 cusecs feet within next 24 hours.
He said that the Water and Power Development Authority had started releasing around 500,000 cusec feet from the Tarbela Dam to the Indus River without informing the Indus River System Authority which had blocked the flow of water from the Kabul River into the Indus at Attock which had submerged villages in Nowshera.
“The Nowshera city is three feet from water and a further rise in the water level can inundate the city anytime,” Siraj said.
He said that Rs 100 million announced by the prime minister during his aerial visit to the flood-affected areas was not for relief activities but for the improvement of the irrigation system that would be released after PC-1 was improved.
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I guess its something to do with the immediate heat wave that caused the glaciars to melt all of a sudden, and the lack of bunds in NWFP.
I did not find anything online to put up here for donation, this just makes me sick. People love to discuss politics, will gladly join an anti-american mob and rally all day in the streets of Pakistan (maybe burn a KFC or two in the process), but theres just no care about this tragic event happening in Pakistan.
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what can a poor person do to help another poor and suffering person? rather you should say people love to eat in KFC in peshawar, or go to the shopping centres, build massive houses, but forget about the poor people suffering. why you putting the blame on those who go out on rallies, when most of them are people who are not rich or in madrassahs, who cant even do nothing for themselves. yet they are somehow responsible for helping, but those upper-class people are good, and no responsibility is on them. when waziris were butchered what did people do for them?
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Well, you can expect virtually 90 out of 100 people to go eat halwa and join a an anti-amreekan/anti-government rally, but was there even a concern about whats going on right now? It seems like these retards have too much time on their hands, most of them are doing this for shughal mela, which clearly shows their sincerety.
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Oh and I said everyone, which includes the rich people you are referring to.
Coming back to the topic, the only genuine flood relief efforts so far are coming from Eidhi.
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is army airforce not helping
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The floods have now hit Punjab and are going to hit Sindh…
Reservoir of floods
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews
What caused floods in the Frontier is comprehensible. What’s not is why tens of thousands dislocated by the surging water have been left high and dry by the authorities
By Behroz Khan
Surging floods in the North Western Frontier Province have forced tens of thousands of families to leave their homes and hearths and shift to safer places. But those facing the wrath of the waves are desperately looking forward for relief to arrive both in cash and kind. In most cases their calls for aid are falling on deaf ears.
Dozens of villages have been inundated in Peshawar valley and in the southern district of Dera Ismail Khan. Floods in the rivers Kabul, Swat, Shah Alam and rivulets in Charsadda, Peshawar and Nowshera districts have either washed away or submerged as many as 86 villages. The situation is particularly bad in Dera Ismail Khan where people managed to make it to safety, leaving their residences and belongings at the mercy of floods. Relief activities, in the meanwhile, remain woefully missing.
“At one point, Nowshera was only three feet above the water level. Any further increase would have submerged not only entire Nowshera, but also a major portion of Mardan and even Peshawar,” says Abdul Wali Yusufzai, Executive Engineer Hydrology Division NWFP. Nowshera is 946 feet above the sea level while the water level on July 2 at Nowshera was recorded at 943 feet above the sea level.
The sudden rise in the flow of rivers in the Frontier was due to the melting of snow on the mountain peaks in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s northern belt. The mountain peaks in Chitral, Swat, Northern Areas, Parachinar and Afghanistan received more than 22-feet snow this winter – a record since 1962. The average snowfall in all these areas in the past three decades had been hardly three feet. A sudden rise in temperature and the consequent heatwave also played a key role in swelling the rivers. At its peak during the flood, the Indus, for instance, was flowing at about 480,000 cusecs at Attock.
This massive flow of water was mainly caused by an emergency discharge of about 3,51400 cusecs of water from the Tarbela reservoir, built on the Indus. This enormous amount of water blocked the flow of the Kabul river and its tributaries into the Indus at Attock, forcing them to flow back and as a result flooding Peshawar valley and Dera Ismail Khan district.
Fortunately, these floods have caused relatively less damage to life. Still, seven people have died, though the damage to the property and households has been much greater. Abdul Wali claims this is mainly due to the timely warnings to people to shift to safer places. These warnings were first issued about two months ago and media played a key role in alerting people about the impending calamity.
Even the discharge from Tarbela was rather expected, Abdul Wali says. Had it been otherwise, there would have been a lot of trouble for the people in Peshawar valley, he says. Similarly, “the backflow of the Kabul river would have severely hit Dera Ismail Khan, if Punjab had not raised alarm about the discharge from Tarbela”.
But he claims Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda), responsible for the upkeep of Tarbela reservoir, failed to inform relevant provincial and federal authorities about the discharge. “The backflow of the river Kabul was mainly the fault of Wapda because it released water from Tarbela without consulting the Frontier’s Hydrology Division and, more importantly, the Indus River System Authority (IRSA) before doing so,” says Abdul Wali, who is also the liaison officer of NWFP’s Flood Warning Cell. “Instead of managing the situation alone, Wapda should have consulted provincial irrigation departments, IRSA and the Indus Water Treaty authorities before deciding on the discharge,” he tells TNS.
This failure in consultation has resulted in great damage to standing crops in the Peshawar valley, which includes the fertile lands of Peshawar, Charsadda and Mardan districts. The sugarcane crop has been the worst hit.
According to initial estimates by the provincial government, thousands of families were marooned in Peshawar alone. People were forced to live under tents, which were also in short supply, or were sheltered in government buildings.
Senior NWFP Minister Sirajul Haq put the number of collapsed houses in the province at more than 14,000. He has demanded the federal government must provide Rs 4 billion to create a relief fund for the province. The amount demanded by the provincial legislature for the purpose is even higher: Rs 5 billion.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, while paying a brief visit to Nowshera, announced Rs 100 million for the families dislocated by the floods but the provincial government has rejected the money as peanuts, much below the damage suffered by the people in the area. The Frontier government has pledged about Rs 90 million for the flood relief effort in the province while the governments of Punjab and Sindh have offered a further Rs 50 million each. The provincial government has also appealed to the international community for help in relief activities because the authorities in Peshawar claim they are in no position to take care of all the needs of those affected by the flood.
The good news is that the the worst part of the flood in the province is already over. But with water levels receding, many questions about the official capacity to avoid a repeat of the situation remain unanswered.
Abdul Wali says building small dams upstream the Kabul, Swat and Indus rivers is the only way to solve the problem permanently. These dams, he says, will control the flow of additional water during the rainy season and water thus stored can be used for irrigation in Punjab and down country.
“The water storage capacity of Warsak Dam is nill while Tarbela lake is losing its capacity due to silting,” he says, advocating immediate de-silting of Warsak Dam and a considerable raise in its height. “There are several sites upstream Warsak where small dams can easily be constructed. Right up to the Durand Line, there are a number of sites for constructing water storages of this size on the Swat and the Indus rivers,” Abdul Wali says questioning the logic behind building water reservoirs in Punjab and downstream the Indus river.
The floods in the Kabul, Indus and other rivers of the province has rekindled the debate between those who favour Kalabagh Dam and those opposing it. The pro-dam lobby says a reservoir at Kalabagh will never allow floods in the Frontier to touch 1929 level which had submerged Nowshera and inundated a large part of the Peshawar valley. Many believe the current floods have almost touched that level.