HYDERABAD: Indus is reported to have burst its banks and submerged large tracts of land affecting hundreds of small villages in Dadu, Nawabshah and Hyderabad districts. According to reports … more than 50,000 people have been rendered homeless and food grain stocks, harvests, tubewells and other property worth lakhs of rupees have been damaged or destroyed. So far three deaths due to flood have been reported from Dadu district. … [E]vacuation of villagers by trucks and by boats is taking place from the areas along the river. … [T]he river level at Kotri Barrage this evening [Aug 2] was only five inches below the danger mark… . The discharge has been registered at 5,10,000 cusecs. — News agencies

[Meanwhile, as reported by news agencies from Kuala Lumpur,] finance ministers of the Islamic countries in Asia, Africa and the Middle East will meet in Jeddah in October to launch the proposed Muslim Development Bank. Stating this … Secretary-General of the Islamic Secretariat, Tengku Abdul Rahman, added that the meeting was originally due to be held in Nairobi next month but at the specific request of some … Arab countries, the venue had been shifted… .

Published in Dawn, August 3rd, 2023