PESHAWAR – The Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa announced the names of 10 most affected districts of the province and mentioned that a total of 1,033 people have been killed while 1,000 others got injured, besides displacement of 3.9 million people.
Briefing the journalists here at Chief Minster House, Mian Iftikhar Hussain informed that the worse affected areas included Charsadda, Nowshera, Swat, Upper Dir, Lower Dir, Shangla, DI Khan, Tank, Kohistan and Peshawar where 700 educational institutions and 149 government building had been destroyed. He said that the losses of $ 270,000,000 were recorded in the livestock and agriculture sector only.
He said that the provincial government had allocated Rs 3 billion for the repairing of irrigation channels and in this regard directives had been issued to quarters concerned to speed up the repairing work on the irrigation channels.
He said that total losses in various sectors had been recorded at Rs 176 billion, which included Rs 99 billion in the head of civic problems, Rs 32 billion for physical infrastructure and Rs 45 billion in production sector.
He added that no new losses had been reported in Buner, Chitral and Lower Dir, however 12 persons were reported dead in the new wave of torrential rains.
APP adds: Iftikhar Hussain criticised the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), saying the NDMA had failed in fulfilling its responsibility as no responsible official of the organisation visited the province to make an assessment of losses due to the devastating floods.
Our Monitoring Desk adds: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain has warned that the province could face famine as the recent floods and heavy rains have devastated entire the infrastructure as well as the agriculture sector, reported a private TV channel on Wednesday. “Irrigation system is in ruins and agriculture and livestock sectors have suffered an irreparable loss which could lead to a situation of famine in the province.”