Swollen Kabul River threatens more flooding.

NOWSHERA -- The Kabul river was flowing up to the brim in the Nowshera district on Sunday, with its water carrying belongings of the people from upstream areas and keeping the people on their toes, lest any major disaster happens in the wake of high flood.

Standing on the Kabul River Bridge in Nowshera Kalan, one could see a submerged under-construction mosque with water nearly touching the ceiling fans inside the prayer hall.

The mosque is visible only through its rooftop and its minarets.

Adjacent to the mosque is another building. The name atop its main gates tells that it is a school. The ground floors of several nearby houses have disappeared in the floodwater, so have the streets and alleyways, which all have been inundated.

The recent rains and the floods have unleashed a wave of death and destruction up and down the country. The devastation began from Balochistan and then moved to Sindh - the worst-affected provinces - but for the past few days, the focus is shifting from the south to the north - Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P).

The divine fury is taking its toll on Nowshera and several other districts of K-P. Now, the riverine floods have started making their way, overflowing the banks and spilling out into adjacent low-lying, dry land in parts of the province.

In Nowshera, the people are on the edge because of the rising level of the Kabul River. They appeared furious for being left alone. Even those lodged in tents at government buildings complained of not being provided basic facilities.

There are many others, who are simply overburdened with the care of the animals they managed to save after floods devoured their homes and crops in the fields. 'Managing fodder and water for the animals is becoming extremely difficult,' said a white-bearded Buland Khan, as he tried to fix his fodder cutter.

Buland along with several others is taking care of roughly 1,000 animals displaced by floods being catered near a roadside. He complained that fodder price for a mini trolley was costing Rs10,000 to Rs11,000, roughly twice the price it cost before the floods.

During a tour of area, it transpired that apart from a team of veterinarians and policemen deployed at the bridge, there was no visible presence of the government officials in Nowshera Kalan, especially when the residents were finding it hard to adjust to the new realities.

Women living in tents felt embarrassed for not having proper washrooms, clean drinking water and enough food for...