Since independence in 1947,
floods in the Indus River Basin in Pakistan have claimed more than 7,000 lives
and caused massive infrastructure and crop losses. The 2010 Pakistan floods
began in July 2010 after heavy monsoon rains affected the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
Sindh, lower Punjab as well as parts of Balochistan It was a great catastrophe
came in Pakistan and brought many horizon of disasters.. It has destroyed
families Pakistan, their possessions, and some have even lost their very dear
ones. Relief workers in Pakistan are struggling to reach hundreds of thousands
of people who have been cut off by rising flood waters. According to a random
estimate, flood affected one third population of Pakistan. The area affected is
132000 sq km. House hold damage has been risen up to 722508. Deaths have reached
around two thousand. Health officials fear a second wave of fatalities from
waterborne diseases, including cholera, which is endemic in Pakistan and now
threatening to become a major outbreak. Up to 3.5 million children are at high
risk of cholera and other deadly diseases such as typhoid and dysentery, Water
is the villain here but can also be a savior: The only recourses from waterborne
illnesses are clean water and medical care, but both are in short supply. There
have been 36,000 suspected cases of potentially fatal acute watery diarrhea
reported so far. This catastrophe is much more than previously occurred in
Pakistan like 2005 earthquake. Roughly three million people have received tents
and tarps, but an estimated eleven million people still need emergency shelter.
For saving the lives of flood affectees and their rehabilitation to streamline
their daily life according to previous level, the whole world has joined hands
to donate for. Approximately sixty four agencies/countries have committed to
donation and twelve out of these agencies/countries have given first payment.
The total committed donation is $.888.23 million out of which $562.98 have been
received. Besides, NGOs in Pakistan also struggling hard to relief the people in
remote area where Govt. officials are not active to provide shelter for people.
National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) have also provided equipments
listed below:
Khyber Pakhtunkhawa.
NDMA despatched 2100 x Jerry Cans, 50 x Shelter box, 1.9 tons of medicines, 144
x tarpulines and 1050 x blankets to Peshawar.
Punjab.
(1) NDMA despatched 116 x Atta bags and 3 tons of misc food items to Rajanpur
throuogh C-130.
(2) NDMA despatched 200 x Atta bags, 30 x tons of medicines, 250 x kitchen sets
and one water purification unit to Multan.
(3) 1 x C-130 transported relief items to DG Khan.
Sindh.
(1) NDMA handed over 350 tents to Navy for further distribution among flood
affectees.
2 x C-130 transported relief items to Jacobabad and 1 x C-130 carried relief
items to Sukkur.
NDMA sent 3.6 tons of dates, 110 tents and 600 blankets to Sukkur through C-130
sortie.
PAF Helicopters dropped 16.23 ton of food items in affected areas around
Jacobabad.
Balochistan
(1) NDMA despatched 3.3 tons of medicines to Quetta on 25 Aug.
(2) NDMA despatched relief items on PAF C-130 to Quetta.
The nation is in a state of reluctant to cope with the huge challenges not only
for flood damages but also for corruption caused by flood. Many a looters is
ransacking cattle money and jewelry of the flood affectee. Despite the suffering
of people and providing a huge donation, many flood victims are reluctant to
leave the ruins of their homes because they fear having their land stolen. Some
notorious gang are enjoying flood in the form of looting and dacoittee. Flood
corruption has been extended to its peak. The plight of the flood victims in
Pakistan has aggravated further with rampant looters grabbing at anything that
they can get access to in Southern Punjab. According to a news paper, the
looters have raided houses on boats and managed to sneak away.The survivors are
seized with fear and shock not knowing if they will find their house or not.
Most of the cases have gone unreported.
Some statement recorded by flood victims are “I have to be vigilant even for my
buffaloes, sheep and other live stocks as many of animal theft incidents have
occurred in my village”. “Living in the house of sorrow such incidents are
further aggravating our woes and worries,” said another victim from Chowk
Quereshi (Muzaffargarh).
The Pakistan Hindu Council has demanded the deployment of army personnel in some
of the flood affected districts of interior Sindh where there is a large
population of Hindus to check incidents of looting.
Dr Ramesh Kumar, the chief patron of the council told that they had made the
demand because of unchecked looting incidents against the Hindu population in
the flood affected districts of Jacobabad, Kashmore and Karampur in Sindh.
Thousands of Hindus who were asked to evacuate their homes by the authorities in
these districts due to the floods were looted by gangs of armed men who also
looted their homes of all valuables and belongings," Kumar said.
The whole world has donated to give shelter to the affected people but looter
are ransacking and grabbing the pet animals, jewelry and other assets. This
situation requires to be noticed by high ups as well as the nation. There is no
need to glorify any State Pillar. The need of the hour is to assist the flood
victims as much as possible by providing every kind of auxiliary equipment for
flood. NGOs should be offered to help the victims in this needy hour to cope
with the situation especially after checking the performance. There should be no
distinction for getting help from western or eastern countries. In the same way
distribution of donation to flood victims must be streamline, if we want peace
and to face rampant challenges to the stability of Pakistan. Otherwise in this
difficult condition, non state actors, in any shape, may strengthen the
activities to destabilize the Pakistan.
Government should take massive measure to control the situation. Otherwise it
would loose confidence in the eyes of donor and then foreign donors would be
eager to make the platform in Pakistan for their internal purposes in the form
of demanding the permission to distribute donation to flood victims
This worse situation can be handled with taking some advancement on the road to
management for distributing donations to the real deservers. It is the duty of
all Pakistanis to come forward with what ever help one can give. And please
don’t ask only Muslims of this country for any help, there is others also who
are called Minorities.