DERA GHAZI KHAN: Kot Mithan is facing high floods in the Indus River where a couple of days ago, a breach in Mashori Bund near the town aggravated the situation. The rising water level is a threat to the city where the shrine of sufi poet Khwaja Ghulam Farid is located.

Rajanpur District Coordination Officer Zahoor Husain told Dawn the city was safe and the irrigation secretary and the Dera Ghazi Khan commissioner were present in Rajanpur. He added that water level in the Indus was 750,000 cusecs at Kot Mithan. He said hill torrents had increased the level of the river. He said the water level of the swelled river would start receding from Saturday.

Published in Dawn, August 8th, 2015

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