KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, in pursuant of a weather advisory issued by Pakistan Meteorological Center, has detailed provincial ministers, advisers, special assistants and MPAs to perform monitoring/supervision relief activities in different districts.
The Pakistan Metrological Center has issued a weather forecast that strong monsoon currents are likely to approach Sindh on 6th Aug. Under the influence of the weather system, widespread rain/wind thundershowers with isolated heavy falls are expected in Karachi, Hyderabad, Thatta, Sujawal, Badin, Tharparkar, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Tando Allahyar, Matiari, Tando Mohammad Khan, Jamshoro, dadu and Shaheed Benazirabad from Aug 6 to 8.
The scattered rain-thunderstorms are also expected in Sukkur, Larkana and Kambar-Shahdadkot, Jacobabad, Kashmore, Ghotki on Aug 7 and 8. The chief minister has declared Minister Local Government Syed Nasir Shah overall in-charge at provincial level. The ministers, advisers, special assistants and MPAs who has been assigned to perform rain emergency monitoring activities in the districts are:
Saeed Ghani - Karachi East, Rashid Rabbani - West, Murtaza Wahab - South, Shela Raza - Central , Mukesh Chawla - Korangi, Waqar Mehdi - Malir, Shabir Bejarani - Hyderabad, Malik Asad Sikander - Jamshoro, Fayaz But - Dadu, Makhdoom Mehmood Zaman - Matiari, Qasim Naveed - TM Khan, Imdad Pitafi - Tandoalyar, Aijaz Shah Shirazi - Sujawal, Ismail Rao - Badin, Ashfaq Memon - Thatta, Dr Azra Pechu - Benazirabad, Faraz Dero - Sanghar, Mumtaz Chandio - Neusheroferoz, Hari Ram - Mirpurkhas, Taimore Talpur - Umerkot, Syed Sardar Shah - Tharparkar, Awais Qadir Shah - Sukkur, Nawab Wasan - Khairpur, Jam Ikram - Ghotki, Sohail Anwar Siyal - Qambar/Shahdadkot or Larkana, Aijaz Jahkrani - Jacobabad or Kashmore, Imtiaz Shaikh - Shikarpur.
The chief minister directed the government representatives to move to the districts where they have been assigned the supervisory work of relief activities and keep him apprised about the situation.
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