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PASNI: Army helicopter patrols over an inundated village of Aghore as a vast area of Pasni district remained under deep water caused by melting snow and torrential rains during last three days. |
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PASNI/KARACHI, February 13 (Online): President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday visited Naval Base Pasni to personally review relief operation on the Makran coast in flood-hit town of Pasni as a result of breaking of Shadi Khore Dam.
Vice Admiral Muhammad Haroon and Commander Pakistan Fleet received the President after his arrival at Naval Base Pasni. In-charge of the relief operation Commodore Minhas gave the detailed briefing.
Then the president went on a Pakistan Navy helicopter to the aerial view of the area to observe and view the damage caused by the flood in the area.
He lauded the efforts of Navy for providing relief to floof affected people. Governor Balochistan Awais Ahmed Ghani, Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Muhammad Yousaf and Federal Minister Zubaida Jala were also present on the occasion.
PN relief operation on the Makran coast in flood-hit town of Pasni is in full swing. Marines Special Services Group Navy and sailors are busy in evacuating people stranded in Hooded areas.
A relief operation has been established in the Naval Base of Pasni to coordinate and execute the relief activities and also help the local government in assessing the damage in the flood.
Two medical camps have been established where 20 doctors and 80 nursing staff are busy in providng basic health care facilities to the people of the area.
Besides two Fokker aircraft and four helicopters are used for airdropping of food items and for evacuation of patients from the area to Karachi and ferrying the relief goods from Karachi to Pasni.
Five Metri Tons of food items and 5000 bottles of drinking water were airlifted and distributed among the people of flood-hit area.
Musharraf for every support to flood victims
President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday announced financial assistance of Rs 100,000 each for families of those who lost their lives after Shadi Korr Dam in Balochistan's coastal town of Pasni burst and swept the whole villages into sea due to flash flooding, saying the government would continue supporting and helping the families of disaster's victims.
Talking to reporters at Gwadar airport on Saturday, the president said widespread relief operation would be carried out in areas affected by heavy rains and deluges.
He said floodwater inundated the far-flung villages in Sansar and Pasni had caused heavy damages to human lives and public properties.
He said he would soon himself go to the two areas to review the relief operation currently under way there.
He said relief goods including medicines, blankets, camps and eatables were being transported to flood-hit localities in Gwadar by helicopters, and a relief camp had also been set up there to help out affectees of the disaster.
The president said Pakistan Army jawans were carrying out the relief operations and relief would reach every affected person soon.
He said hundreds of people had been stranded in their villages lacking proper roads and communication network and he considered visiting those places necessary to sympathize with the people facing hard times at the moment.
He said relief activities would have not been executed in far-flung areas of the province, hadn't there been an army battalion stationed in Pasni.
He said it was only the Pakistan Army, Navy and Air Force that came to the rescue of people affected by floods and they were shifting affectees to safer places besides giving them necessary shelter, food items and clothes.
He even said those who were opposed to the military deployment in Balochistan and talked much of rights of Balochis, failed to come to the help of their people in the difficult times.
He said the government would appropriately compensate those affected by the calamity for their rehabilitation.
Benazir grieves over deaths due to dam rupture, floods
Former Prime Minister and Chairperson of the Pakistan Peoples Party Benazir Bhutto has expressed profound grief over the loss of precious lives due to rupture of Shadi Kor Dam in Pasni, Gawadur district and due to incessant rains in Frontier, Tribal, Northern Areas and other parts of the country during the past few days.
Several villages were swept by the gushing floodwater when the dam burst on Thursday. The dead included several commuters when a passenger bus from Turbat to Karachi was swept by floodwater on the coastal highway.
In a message released on Saturday today from Jeddah the former Prime Minister said that she was profoundly grieved and shocked over the loss of lives, the miseries caused to unsuspecting people and damage to the property due to floods and rains throughout the country.
She asked the rulers to immediately deploy state resources to search for those missing and rehabilitation of the affected people.
She also asked for adequate compensation to the victims and their families.
The Party Chairperson asked Party leaders to visit the affected villagers and extend all possible assistance to them. She also prayed for those who lost their lives in the floods and rains and expressed sympathy with the bereaved families.
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