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Punjab Sets One-Month Flood Relief Plan as Breach Repairs Accelerate

Aid will be paid through ATM cards after rapid surveys to curb leakages.

Overview

  • Officials report simultaneous impact across roughly 28 districts as rescue transitions to rehabilitation, with PDMA, Irrigation, Rescue 1122 and the army repairing breaches and reinforcing embankments.
  • The government says finances are stable and losses will be compensated within a month, with beneficiary payments to be routed through ATM cards following damage assessments.
  • Announced compensation includes PKR 1,000,000 for fully destroyed homes and for families of those killed, and PKR 500,000 for partially damaged homes and for the seriously injured, with livestock losses also to be addressed.
  • Local authorities in Shujabad cite about 39,546 acres and roughly 50,000 people affected and describe peak flows near 1.75 million cusecs, with rapid embankment strengthening now underway.
  • Separately in Karachi, journalist Imtiaz Mir was shot near Malir Kala Board; police say a man and a woman on a motorcycle opened fire and fled, and the wounded reporter was taken to hospital as two shell casings were recovered.