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SIALKOT, Aug 17: All the low-lying parts of the city, including district jail, courts, railway station and Jinnah Stadium were inundated due to heavy rain here on Tuesday, paralysing civic and trade activities.
Reports said heavy rain started early in the morning and continued throughout the day. It rained heavily in Sialkot City, Cantonment, Daska, Bhopalwala, Sambrial, Uggoki, Chawinda, Badiana, Pasrur and surrounding rural areas.
The local MET office authorities have forecast more heavy rains in both Sialkot and Narowal districts and in all the catchment areas of neighbouring Occupied Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours.
RIVER TAVI: As many as 85 far-off border villages of Bajwat were again cut off on Tuesday from the rest of the Sialkot district after the River Tavi flooded. Reports said boatmen refused to take risk by resuming boating in the fast flow of flood water in the river.
Talking to this correspondent, District Officer (Coordination) Aamir Ejaz Akbar claimed that the flooded Nullah Dek had inundated six villages of Chahoor, Nangal Boota, Mehtabpur, Hanjali, Kot Virk and Chak Machhana in Pasrur tehsil without damaging crops and properties.
He said in Pasrur tehsil's Kakka Pun and Punjgraien villages, the nullah overflowed, damaging a small bridge and a road connecting Kakka Pun to Khewa Jajja. He said the inhabitants of these villages were facing difficulties to cross the bridge.
Presiding over the flood committee meeting, DCO Syed Tahir Raza Naqvi directed the authorities concerned to make arrangements for reconnecting the 85 Bajwat villages with the rest of the district.
Meanwhile, the district government has warned the people through announcements in local mosques of Pasrur tehsil's six villages to be alert as the Nullah Dek could be flooded.
The flood-hit people have started shifting to safer places in other parts of the district. Pasrur DDO (Revenue) Nadeem Sarwar told newsmen that the flow of water in the nullah was 11,393 cuesecs at noon which was a high level flood.
