Flood devastation: colossal nation must join hands to support 3 million affectees.

ISLAMABAD -- Chairman National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and national coordinator National Flood Response and Coordination Centre (NFRCC) on Tuesday have urged the nation to join hands with the government to support three million flood affectees as the devastation was colossal and unmanageable.

In a joint presser flanked by Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Prof Ahsan Iqbal, Chairman NDMA Lieutenant General Akhtar Nawaz Satti and national coordinator NFRCC Major General Muhammad Zafar Iqbal briefed the nation on the ongoing flood response, relief and rehabilitation efforts in the impacted areas across the country.

Chairman NDMA Lt Gen Satti said the recent monsoon rainfall in the country in general and in Sindh and Balochistan in particular caused huge devastation that no country or government alone could handle.

The government through the UN appealed for global support where the UN Secretary General came to Pakistan and visited the flood hit areas and strongly appealed to the international community to support Pakistan's flood victims.

The government through its embassies abroad and foreign embassies within the country and with the help of media briefed the international community on the gravity of the situation and its needs to address the crisis, he added.

Gen Satti told the media that the efforts resulted into flow of relief items and assistance and so far 114 relief flights had been received from 120 countries and 66 of them were received by NDMA and 13 more were scheduled in the next 10 days.

He informed that relief items arrived in 48 of the relief flights were directly dispatched by UNICEF, Red Crescent, USAID, and UNHCR.

The NDMA Chair mentioned that out of the total flights 13 were received from Turkiye, 30 from UAE, five from China, four Oman, three Qatar and one flight each from other countries.

'All flights do not bring relief goods rather some of them bring delegations, and some logistics equipment for pre-deployment.'

The relief items received so far were 16,938 tents, 3,000 tarpaulins, 37,000 blankets, 11,000 food packs, 182 tonnes dry food, 30 tonnes medicines, and 58 boats, he said, adding, ' Moreover, other than this two trains from Turkiye reached at Dalbandin and six more are on way carrying tents, blankets and ration bags.'

He further mentioned that from Tajikistan a relief convoy of 86 trucks reached Pakistan from Torkham Border carrying relief goods including tents, food...

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