Adam Khan Wazir Wana
Hailstorm coupled with rains and strong winds damaged standing crops, vegetables and fruit in most of the areas in Lower South Waziristan district. Heavy rain and hailstorm lashed Zarmilan, a remote area of Lower South Waziristan, damaging the crops in the area.
Additional Deputy Commissioner District Lower South Waziristan Finance and Planning Kashmir Khan said while talking to the media that all the staff of the district administration are collecting information about the damages caused by hailstorm in different areas and are engaged in conducting assessment and have started full efforts to repair the damages with the support of the provincial government.
He said that all the staff of the district administration have been alerted to deal with such an emergency situation so that the damages caused by natural calamities/disaster can be redressal in time. It should be remembered that most of the people in Lower Waziristan are dependent on agriculture and farming, but due to heavy rains, hailstorms and flash floods yesterday, most of the standing crops have been badly affected.
The local tribal elders said that if the central and provincial governments do not address our losses, the farmers will face financial difficulties. They said that most of the farmers here have cultivated crops by taking loans from the markets but after the destruction due to hailstorm, it has become difficult for them to clear this loan.
Local elders have demanded NDMA and PDMA along with federal and provincial governments that all the places affected by hail in South Waziristan should be surveyed and the area should be declared disaster, and the farmers should be financially supported because here vegetables.
