Our Correspondents
Sialkot
Ten villages of Sambrial tehsil were inundated after a breach occurred at Nullah Aik near Chohdo Chak-Bhopalwala on Saturday. The breach occurred due to high flood level in the Nullah Aik which has also destroyed crops over hundreds of acres of land. Rescue-1122 has set up a flood emergency camp at Chohdo Chak with repairing of breach.
Meanwhile, the Federal Flood Commission (FFC) has said that River Chenab is flowing in High Flood at Qadirabad Barrage and Low Flood in ‘MaralaKhanki Reach’. According to daily FFC report on Saturday, River Jhelum is also at Medium Flood Stage in ‘Mangla-Rasul Reach’ whereas River Indus in ‘Kalabagh-Chashma Reach’ & ‘Guddu-Sukkur Reach’ and River Kabul at Nowshera are flowing in Low Flood.
Other main rivers (Ravi & Sutlej) are flowing normal. It is anticipated that River Chenab at Trimmu is likely to attain Low to Medium Flood level during the next 24 hours. Tarbela and Mangla reservoirs have attained their respective Maximum Conservation Levels of 1550.00 feet & 1242.00 feet on August 28.
The Combined Live Storage of major reservoirs (Tarbela, Mangla & Chashma) is 13.371 MAF (i.e. 98.21% of existing storage capacity of 13.614 MAF). Yesterday’s Depression over Northern Chattisgarh (India) lies over Northeastern Madhya Pradesh (India). Yesterday’s trough of Westerly Wave over Kashmir has moved away Eastwards and a fresh trough of Westerly Wave lies over Northwest Iran.
Chairman Pakistan Peoples Party Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Saturday expressed grave concern over the situation in Gilgit Baltistan where Karakorum Highway had been blocked near Tatta Pani and Lal Pari areas in Diamer district due to flash floods and landslides. In a statement issued here by the party secretariat, he said that following heavy torrential rain, which had destroying standing crops and orchids in the region. He said that media reports from Gilgit-Baltistan were scarce possibly due to intermittent communication breakdowns.
