The infrastructure of the local towns has suffered significant damage due to flash floods, landslides and other calamities that have occurred in the past few years.
Hundreds of villages in various areas of Pakistan’s Punjab have submerged under water due to low to medium floods in the Ravi, Sutlej, and Indus rivers, Dawn reported.
A spokesperson for the district administration, Mazhar Maghul, told Dawn that the incident occurred at seven in the morning near the Sasi area of the Haramosh Valley.
Army officials said that such drills are carried out to prepare for contingencies where they have to take action against the adversaries if they try to capture Indian areas by using the routes of valleys in this area.
The water regulator, however, could not bridge differences between the two large provinces over the conveyance losses. As a result, the meeting set up a committee led by IRSA's member for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa "to determine actual system conveyance losses to resolve the issue", the regulator sa
Awami Tahreek party held the meeting with their President Lal Jarwar in the chair and noted that the natural course of the river was being diverted for the Dasu power project would destroy Sindh's economy and also condemned the launch of a digital census.
NHPC's Group General Manager, Bikram Singh, told business-line last week that the company has pitched to the Lieutenant Governor (LG) of Ladakh for putting up hydro-electric power plants at Khalsi (78 MW), Takmachik (45 MW) and Kanuntsey (60MW).
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 17 (ANI): Pakistan which is witnessing one of the worst floods in its history is caught in a storm of controversies and scandal surrounding the Diamer-Bhasha Dam on the Indus river.
New Delhi [India], September 12 (ANI): In another highlight of the Indian Defence Forces, the Indian Army's impressive engineering skills came to the fore on Sunday after a video depicted the troops constructing a bridge across the Indus river.
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 1 (ANI): Pakistan's deadly floods have created a massive 100 km-wide inland lake due to the overflowing Indus River in Sindh Province, satellite images show.
Sindh [Pakistan], August 30 (ANI): At least 13 people were killed and many remained missing after a boat carrying around 25 flood victims capsized in the swollen Indus River in Pakistan's Sindh province on Monday, local media reported.
Gilgit Baltistan [PoK], August 26 (ANI): A protest rally was organized against increased prices and reduced subsidy on wheat in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK's) Gilgit Baltistan (GB) region.