The torrential rain on Thursday lashed out both neighbouring Sialkot and Narowal districts followed by the heavy wind storm, as dozens of the trees were uprooted and fell on the main roads including Sialkot-Daska-Gujranwala Road, Sialkot-Pasrur Road, Sialkot-Sambrial-Wazirabad Road, Pasrur-Narowal Road and in the surrounding areas, hampering the flow of traffic.

The heavy rain also affected the electricity and communication systems due to which the supply of electricity remained suspended for several hours in urban and especially rural areas of Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur tehsils.

It remained dark and cloudy with and loud thunder could be heard. The torrential rain began very early in the morning and continued the whole day. The rain also inundated all the low-lying urban and rural areas of Sialkot region, which paralyzed all the political social, trade and business activities, besides, forcing the people to come out on the roads and in the streets to enjoy.

The heavy rain also exposed the alleged height of negligence of Sialkot TMA due to which all the main city roads were inundated with the rainy and sewerage water. All the decades old choked sewerage and drainage lines over flowed due to the rain.

However, paddy growers warmly welcomed this heavy rain and said it was most conducive for the under cultivation paddy crops in both neighbouring Sialkot and Narowal districts (a hub of producing the best quality bumper paddy yields).

The concerned officials of Sialkot MET office have forecast more wide-spread heavy rains in the Sialkot region and in all the catchment areas of neighbouring Occupied Jammu and Kashmir during the next 24 hours.