ISLAMABAD: National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) yesterday advised all concerned provincial and federal ministries and emergency departments to ensure prior arrangements to cope with flash floods predicted in rivers and nullahs of eastern Balochistan. According to NDMA advisory, Flood Forecasting Division (FFD) has forecast moderate flash flooding in rivers and nullahs of eastern Balochistan during next 24 hours and heavy flooding after 24 hours. It added that ‘medium to high-level flooding’ is expected in Kabul River at Nowshera, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and tributaries of rivers Kabul and Indus, in Sindh, till today. Moreover, ‘high level and above flooding’ is likely in hill torrents of Dera Ghazi Khan Division, Punjab, in next 24 hours. NDMA said that all concerned federal ministries and departments, provincial disaster management authorities provincial irrigation departments and respective district administrations, district disaster management authorities as well as municipal and city administrations are advised to forewarn at-risk communities in vulnerable areas. It maintained that they are advised to remain on high alert and monitor developing situation in order to reduce reaction and response times, pre-placing rescue teams and equipment for rapid deployment in vulnerable areas. 

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 22 2022

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