Emergency imposed in four flood-hit KP districts

SHAWAR/KHAIRPUR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has declared an emergency in flood-hit areas of Dera Ismail Khan, Upper Chitral, Lower Chitral, and Upper Kohistan districts.
The provincial Relief and Rehabilitation Department issued a formal notification on the directives of Chief Minister Mahmood Khan, said a handout. CM Khan said he would soon visit the flood-hit districts to look into the losses caused by flash floods and rehabilitation activities carried out by the administration.
He added that he would announce a package for the rehabilitation of flood-affected infrastructure in those districts. The chief minister directed the relevant officials to expedite relief and rehabilitation activities and ensure the provision of food items and other stuff of daily use to every flood-affected household, The News reported. He said that he is monitoring the flood situation, and is in contact with the administration concerned. The chief minister said the relevant district administrations had been asked for compiling the assessment reports to review the damages caused by floods, adding necessary directives that have been issued to quarters concerned for rehabilitation of the damaged infrastructure.
He assured that the KP government would go all-out to provide relief to the affected people and that all available resources would be utilized for that.-PNP