Three months on, Sindh's Jhuddo taluka still underwaters.

MIRPURKHAS -- The Mirpurkhas district administration has failed to clear Jhuddo taluka, the worst flood-hit area in the district, of stagnant floodwaters, forcing thousands of calamity-stricken people to continue to live in makeshift huts along roads and on patches of higher ground under open sky and without government help. Leaders of the flood victims Khalid Arain, Ali Nawaz Shah and Fazlur Rehman Memon told media that Mirpurkhas Deputy Commissioner had presided over a meeting of engineers of irrigation department and drainage division about 10 days back, which had decided to plan a strategy to ensure drainage of floodwaters from the district. The meeting had also decided that the district administration would arrange and install dewatering machines to drain floodwaters from the worst affected areas, particularly Jhuddo and other talukas, while the drainage division would make available excavators and other machinery to make breaches for releasing floodwaters and digging small drains to...