Federal Minister for Water and Power Liaquat Ali Khan Jatoi has said that fifty thousand flood affected people have been shifted from the affected areas to safer places. An all out effort is being made to provide them maximum relief in the relief camps set up in different parts of Dadu and Kambar.
The Minister said this while talking to newsmen here on Saturday after taking an aerial view of the flood-hit areas.
He said the civil administration along with the personnel of Pakistan Army has shifted these flood victims to safer places and the government would make all out efforts for their early rehabilitation. Besides distribution of fifty thousand bags of relief goods, the Minister said the District Government is also providing cooked food and drinking water to these victims.
Liaquat Jatoi termed the recent flood as a natural calamity, however, he said there is no chance of inundation of Johi town. Efforts are being made to dispose the floodwater that flowed in from Balochistan through Khirthar Mountain Range into River Indus through Manchar Lake.
The Minister refuted any allegation by opponents that on his directives the path of floodwater was diverted to save his agricultural land adding that no such directive has been given to any official. He said more than two thousand acres of agricultural land of his and other family members was inundated by floodwater.
The Minister said he is personally monitoring the rescue and relief works and has also informed Sindh Chief Minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim about the situation. The officers and staff of WAPDA Water Wing, Sindh Irrigation Department and Sindh Agriculture Engineering Department have been engaged in flood affected areas with deployment of heavy machinery to avert any major mishap as a result of flood, he said.
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