Prime Minister's Secretariat

PRIME MINISTER’S SECRETARIAT NATIONAL DISASTER MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

ISLAMABAD

FLOOD UPDATE – 5 AUG 2010 FLASH FLOOD 22 JUL 2010 (BALOCHISTAN/PUNJAB) 1. Summary of Losses – 22 Jul 2010 (Balochistan) a. Deaths : 24 b. Injured : 98 c. Houses Damaged : 19604 2. Summary of Losses – 22 Jul 2010 (Punjab) a. Deaths : 1 b Injured : - c. Houses Damaged : 901 3. Relief Activities a. Relief Items Provided (1) Tents : 5950 (2) Plastic Mats : 13400 (3) Blankets : 2800 (4) Generators : 4 (5) Ration Packets : 15000 (6) Hygiene Kits : 4000 (7) Non Food Items : 2300 (7) Medical Teams : 28 b. On request of NDMA, PRCS is catering for the food / healthcare requirements of population of affected areas for next 3 months. c. 1300 troops (including 4 medical teams) and 4 helicopters from Southern Command actively participated in the relief operation.

4. Challenges a. Rehabilitation of the affected people at safer places instead of the low lying areas. b. Removal of self help basis / localised dams, which are one of the reasons of flash floods. c. Capacity building of the Balochistan Government in order to tackle such kind of disasters. d. Timely provision of promised relief packages to the affected populace.

Torrential Rains / Floods (27-29 Jul 2010) 5. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa a. Summary of Losses (Details attached) (1) Deaths : 847 (2) Injured : 832 (3) Houses Damaged : 156805

2 b. Relief Activities (1) Relief Items Provided (a) Tents : 34100 (b) Food Packets : 86950 (c) Cooked meal : 84000 (d) Sand Bags : 4500 (e) Blankets : 5000 (f) Plastic Mats : 10000 (g) Jackets : 3000 (h) Dewatering Pump : 4 (i) NFI Kits : 2656 (j) Mineral Water Bottle : 15690 (k) Monetary Support : 21 Millions (2) Misc Relief Efforts (a) Rescue Efforts i. Helicopters - 23 (including 6 x US) ii. Boats Operating - 150 (Excluding locally arranged boats) iii. Total individuals Rescued - 33000 (+) iv. PAF helicopter transported a medical team to Mari Indus. v. Evacuation of 265 x Chinese, stranded in Dubair Valley have been completed. vi. 2x Reserve Bridges of Army have been moved to Malakand in order to restore road communication. vii. Today 2565 tourists were evacuated from Kalam. Taking a total to 3283 x individuals evacuated from the valley. viii. Army has established 4 x field hospitals (Charsadda, Nowshera, Jalozai and D.I. Khan) to provide medical assistance to the flood affectees. ix. WFP is presently supporting 13,000 families in KPK through its food support programme and plans to increase the figures upto 60,000. x. US Government is providing assistance in shape of Meal Ready to Eat (MREs). A total of 436,000 packets of MREs have been provided for flood affectees. xi. 4x CH-47 and 2 x Black Hawk also actively participated in the rescue operation in KPK. vii. PAF air dropped 3000 food packets in Swat Valley. c. Challenges (1) Sustenance of Kalam Valley having 600,000 population and restoration of road infrastructure. (2) Restoring link of Lower Dir with Upper Dir. (3) Danger of out break of epidemics. (4) Handling of health, food, shelter, water and sanitation issues.

3 6. Punjab a. Summary of Losses (Details attached) (1) Deaths : 55 (including 36 due to rains) (2) Injured : 140 (Including 98 due to rains) (3) Houses Damaged : 83318 b. Relief Activities (1) Relief Items Provided (a) Tents : 11,000 (b) Food packets : 37,000 (c) Cooked food : 32,000 (d) Blankets : 5,000 (e) Plastic Mats : 18,400 (f) Net Mosquito : 750 (g) Relief Camps : 166 (housing 24354 persons)

(2) Misc Relief Efforts (a) Rescue Efforts i Helicopters : 4 (3 more arriving today) ii. Boats : 205 iii. Individual Rescued: 36706 iv. Additional army troops have been moved to support the relief and rescue activities in Kot Addu. v. PAF helicopter transported field MI room to Mianwali. vi. PDMA Punjab has provided 24 truck load of food items to Mianwali. vii. Prime Minister of Pakistan alongwith Chairman NDMA visited the flood affected areas of Punjab on 3 and 4 August 2010. viii. On request of Punjab Government, NDMA has coordinated release of Emergency Medical and Cholera kits from WHO. ix. On night 4/5 August 1x aircraft each from Turkey, Spain and Qatar carrying relief goods arrived at Chaklala airbase. x. PAF has transported 12 x boats, 2 x water purification plant, 20x Generators, 583 x cartons of medicines, 1 x medical team including a lady doctor and 27,000 MREs to Multan. xi. 1 x Indonesian aircraft carrying relief items will arrive at Chaklala air base tonight.

c. Challenges. Relief and rescue work in the affected areas. 7. Sind a. Summary of Losses - Nil. b. Relief Activities (1) Army troops along with 115 x boats have moved in threatened districts (Larkana, Kashmore, Nosheroferoze, Dadu, Nawabshah, Jamshoro, Khairpur and Thatta) in order to pre-empt the likely flood situation. Whereas 1600 x troops have been placed on 6 hours notice to move to assist the civilian administration. (2) 6 x Helicopters (2 from Army and 4 from Pakistan Navy) have been earmarked for relief operation in Sind. (3) 35 x Boats have been relocated at Sukkur and conducting rescue operations in affected areas. (4) Navy has also moved its medical teams (including a lady doctor) to Sukkur. 4 (5) Naval rescue teams evacuated approximately 2000 individuals from Kashmore, Ghotki, Panu Aqil and Sukkur. (6) PAF transported 2 x water purification plant, 20x Generators, 581 x cartons of medicine and 12,000 MREs to Sukkur. c. Challenges (1) Preparation for likely flood situation in the province. (2) Evacuation of population from threatened areas. (3) Safety of barrages. 8. AJ& K a. Summary of Losses (Details attached) (1) Deaths : 63 (2) Injured : 50 (3) Houses Damaged : 2482 (4) Power stations damaged : 7 (5) Following roads are blocked:- (a) Mansehra - Muzaffarabad (b) Muzaffarabad - Chakothi (c) Neelum Valley road has been restored upto Ashkot (near Athmuqam) b. Relief Activities (1) Relief Items Provided (a) Tents : 1600 (b) Food Packets : 6000 (c) Plastic Mats : 2000 (d) Blankets : 4000 (e) Generator : 2 (2) Misc Relief Efforts (a) 550 x families were rescued to safe areas. (b) 2 x Helicopters of Anti Narcotics Force carried 9,000 MREs and rescued 169 x individuals from Neelam Valley on 4 August. (c) UN OCHA has been requested to undertake rapid need assessment in AJ&K.

c. Challenges (1) Sustenance of people in Neelum and Shunter Valleys. (2) Restoration of the road infrastructure. 9. Gilgit Baltistan a. Summary of Losses (Details attached) (1) Deaths : 12 (2) Injured : 16 (3) Houses Damaged : 480 (4) Following roads are blocked:- (a) Gilgit – Ghizar (b) Gilgit – Rawalpindi (c) Gilgit – Khunjrab (d) Jaglot – Astore (e) Skardu – Dassu

5 b. Relief Activities (1) Relief Items Provided (a) Tents : 1000 (b) Plastic mats : 2000 (c) Blankets : 2000 (2) Misc Relief Efforts (a) Tilldate 19x PAF sorties to Gilgit Baltistan ensured:- (b) Individuals Rescued: 1352 (incl 71 foreigners) (c) Food Items : 110065 lbs food items (d) 3x dead bodies of Air Blue Crash (e) 2 x helicopters of Army have been earmarked to support the relief activities. (f) 1105 x families were provided with shelter and food by the PDMA of Gilgit Baltistan. (g) 80% restoration work of Road Gilgit – Ghizar road has been completed and is likely to open tomorrow. (h) On request of NDMA, PIA authorities have agreed to increase the daily flights to Gilgit Baltistan as under:- i. Skardu : 2 ii. Gilgit Baltistan : 3

c. Challenges (1) Sustenance of the population of Gilgit – Baltistan due to severance of KKH. (2) District Ghizar is cut off from the rest of Gilgit Baltistan. (3) Looming disaster situation in the wake of land slides and formation of lake at Atta abad.

10. Misc Activities. Pledges by the Foreigners donors are as under:- Ser Assistance Promised Country Cash Kind a. South Korea - 0.5 million $ b. Japan 3 million $ 0. 23 million $ c. USA 10 million $ 438,000 x MREs 4 x Zodiac boats 4 x Purification Plants

d. Australia 5 million $ (Aus) e. UK 32 million $ f. China 3 million Yuans + 50,000 $ to 1000 x Tents NDMF 50 x Generators 6 x Purification Plants

g. EU 30 million Euro h. Italy - 6 x Water filtration plants 5 x Water tanks 3000 x J/ canes

i. UN 18 million $

Ser Assistance Promised Country Cash Kind j. Saudi Arabia - 2x aircraft of relief goods k. Indonesia - 60 tons food items l. Qatar - 1 x aircraft carrying 17 ton of food items/17 ton medicines 1150 x food packets 1000 x blankets m. Turkey - 1500 x sleeping bags 1200x Mats 420x Kitchen Sets n. Spain - 94 x Tents 720 x Kitchen Sets 552 x Hygiene Kits o. Thailand 75,000 $

7 DISTRICTWISE DAMAGES

Ser District Total

Chitral Orakzai Agency Tank D.I. Khan Lakki Bannu Mansehra Abbottabad Haripur Battagram Kohistan Peshawar Charsadda Nowshera Mardan Swabi Karak Kohat Hangu Swat Dir Lower Malakand Shangla Buner UpperDir

1. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Deaths 847

36 66 161 4 5 18 27 4 86 29 11 161 16 75 847 - 8 11 4 7 29 11 28 35 15

Injured 832

65 103 10 10 4 48 36 8 200 - 7 230 29 4 - - 9 - 3 - 20 4 21 15 6

House Damages 156805

33 37

20514 34657 67940 7645 3 7 79 62 16463 260 1038 183 942 550 3770 10 30 1372 63 505 338 2304

Lahore Gujrat Rajanpur Mianwali Rawalpindi Sialkot Bhakkar Attock Khushab D.G Khan Layyah R.Y. Khan Muzaffargarh Total 2. Punjab Death 18 3 4 3 2 3 1 12 6 - - 1 2 55 Injured 96 1 - 2 1 - 1 - 27 - - 12 - 140 House Damages - 6010 2244 - - 2738 - 3113 1397 - 7560 60256 83318

Sibi Barkhan Kohlu Nasirabad Kachi Killa Saifullah Jaffarabad Loralai Mussakhail Sherani Haruai Total 3. Balochistan Death 3 18 1 - 1 - 1 - - - - 24 Injured 70 25 2 - - - 1 - - - - 98 House Damages 7746 2346 6550 376 286 200 1500 250 100 150 100 19604

Neelum Muzaffarabad Hattian Mirpur Kotli Bhimber Rawalakot Bagh Sudhnuti Havli Total 4. Azad Jammu & Kashmir Death 18 13 8 3 6 2 - 3 7 3 63 Injured 11 1 7 - 2 10 - 4 14 1 50 House Damages 1075 615 11 - 7 23 114 485 35 117 2482

Gilgit Skardu Diamer Ghanche Ghizer Astore Hunza Nagar Total 5. Gilgit Baltistan Death - - 8 - 4 - - 12 Injured ------House Damages 760 8 20 11 260 27 19 1105

SUMMARY Deaths Injured House Damaged 1001 1120 263313