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| July 3, 2005 | Sunday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 25, 1426 |
Relief sent to flood-hit districts
PESHAWAR, July 2: The Pakistan Army on Saturday sent nine trucks loaded with food items to worst flood-hit areas of Charsadda and Nowshera districts from here. The food items have been donated by philanthropists and well-off people for onward distribution among 2,000 families of Kodai, Bela Mohammadan, Tapu Sultan, Jala Bela and other villages of the two districts.
The food consignment comprised 2,400 sacks of flour and 2,400 tins of ghee.
Soldiers would distribute the items among the deserving families displaced by heavy floods.
Meanwhile, the army rescue parties were on high alert to meet any emergency in view of rising water levels in the river Indus at Dera Ismail Khan.
The Pakistan Army has so far conducted 14 operations in Charsadda, Peshawar and Nowshera districts and rescued around 2,000 people stranded in floods.
As many as 17 medical centres have been established to provide quality medical care to people of the three flood-stricken districts, Flood Relief Commissioner, NWFP, Ghulam Farooq said.
He told the PTV that seven such centres had been established in Peshawar, and five each in Nowshera and Charsadda.
The Early Warning System had also been activated to cope with any eventuality, he added.
About 6,572 persons of 86 villages had also been affected by the floods. Crops on 218521 kanal land had suffered damage.
The cabinet division had sent 600 food bags, 100 tents, seven cartons of medicines, and some blankets for the flood-hit people, he said.
The NWFP government had provided 1,050 tents, 4,927 food packets. A total of 142,500 sandbags had also been provided to the irrigation department to fight off the menace of flood, he added. —APP
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