KARACHI: Authorities in Pakistan’s Sindh said on Saturday that floodwater rushing downstream from the eastern Punjab province pose no major threat to the southern province.
The floodwaters have been rushing southwards to Sindh after devastating Punjab, where 97 people have been killed and submerging over two million acres of farmland has been submerged since late August.
The inflow of water was 537,220 cusecs at Guddu Barrage on the Indus river, 460,490 cusecs at Sukkur Barrage and 261,234 cusecs at Kotri Barrage in Sindh, according to the provincial information department.
Syed Salman Shah, head of the Sindh Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA), acknowledged that some villages in Sindh’s Dadu district have been inundated, but the situation is “not alarming.”
“The situation in Sindh is not alarming... We have identified 1,651 such villages across Sindh that could be partially inundated in case of a water flow of 700,000 cusecs,” he told Arab News.
