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UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Department of State [email protected] http://hiu.state.gov Pakistan: Temporal Snapshots HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT of Monsoon Flooding Flood-aected land/possible ood TAJIKISTAN water as of Aug. 18 International boundary TURKMENISTANProvince boundary CHINA Map Extents 1 Flooding snapshot July 28 - Aug. 5 2 Flooding snapshot Aug. 6 - 10 3 Flooding snapshot Aug. 11 - 19 1972 Line AFGHANISTAN 1 of Control 2 3 INDIA Arabian Sea Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative. Sources: USG August 20, 2010 - U262 STATE (HIU) UNCLASSIFIED Page 1 of 5 U.S. Department of State UNCLASSIFIED [email protected] http://hiu.state.gov HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT Pakistan: Flooding July 28 - August 5 July 28: Flash oods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Flood-aected land/possible ood water (Aug. 1-5) (KPk) province kill hundreds of people and lead Pre-ood water to the Swat River bursting its banks, causing bridges to collapse, and shutting down critical ! MastūjInternationalGupis boundary! « Province capital highway links. Province boundary ! Populated place July 30: The U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan District boundary Ð Selected dam makes disaster declaration for the ooding Indus Highway or barrage ! and provides boats and aid equipment. ! Gilgit Chitrāl Primary road Aug 1: Following a request from the Primary railroad Government of Pakistan (GoP), the U.S. begins 0 25 50 100 Km providing helicopter support by transporting ! Kalān ! Chilās people and delivering aid supplies. Secretary Sazīn ! Clinton announces an initial aid commitment 0 20 40 80 Mi Arandu! of $10m. !Dir Aug 2: KPk Provincial Disaster Management Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Authority estimates approx. 107 mi (173km) of t a w Beshām roadways, 67 bridges, and 243 water systems S ! Qila AFGHANISTAN are damaged or destroyed. The World Health Organization notes an increase in diarrhea ! s Mingāora u cases due to contaminated water, up to d n 80% of water sources in KPk are contaminated. I Dargai 1972 Line Aug 3: The Pakistan National Disaster ! of Control Management Agency (NDMA) announces that Warsak Dam !! Mansehra! «Muzaffarābād ood levels exceed those from the 1929 oods. Tarbela Dam ³ Mardān KPk authorities deploy U.S. provided steel Chārsadda ! Abbottābād! suspension bridges in parts of the province. ! INDIA ! ³ Aug 4: Six U.S. helicopters arrive from «! !Nowshera ! Azad Afghanistan to support the aid eort. UN Peshāwar Harīpur ! ! Murree Kashmir Secretary General makes $10m available from ! ! the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) Attock Wāh !\ s Islamabad for critical needs from the oods. u ! d ! n Flood waters begin to enter Sindh I Rāwalpindi ! Aug 5: Kohāt Kotli Province. ! Jand ! Gūjar Mangla Dam !Khān Jinnah AFG. Barrage ³ Soān ! ! Chakwāl Mīram Bannu ! ! ! !³ Jhelum Shāh Talagang Kālābāgh Khanki Barrage Chashma Federally ³ Dam Punjab !Khewra Gujrāt ! ! Administered Lakki ! ! Marwat Miānwāli Malakābād Rasūl Tribal Areas m Barrage lu ³ he (FATA) ³ ! J !Pezu ! ³ !Wāna ! Jhawāriān Qādirābād !Tank Khushāb Piplān Barrage Gujrānwāla! b a Khyber ! n ! e Pakhtunkhwa Sargodha h Hāfizābād ! C Kamoke ! Pindi Bhattiān Dera ! ! Ismāīl Darya Khān Sheikūpura! ! Khān ! Darband s Chiniot u ! d ! Lahore« n Bhakkar I Trimmu Mīran! Faisalābād! ! Dam !Zhob Mankera ! !Jhangi Jarānwāla ! ³ ! Gojra i Fatehpur av Balochistan R !Chūniān !Leiah ! Murgha Okāra ! Kibzai Kamālia! Taunsa! ! ! Sāhīwāl Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative. Sources: USG, AFP, Dawn, IRIN, August 20, 2010 - U262 STATE (HIU) UNCLASSIFIED UN OCHA, UNOSAT Page 2 of 5 U.S. Department of State UNCLASSIFIED [email protected] http://hiu.state.gov Aug 6: NDMA announces that the current ooding HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT Pakistan:! Flooding August 6 - 10 is estimated to have a greater impact on the Pakistani population than the 2005 earthquake; Flood-aected land/possible ood water (Aug. 1-12) aecting more people over a larger area. (USG) Mīran ! Aug 6: Indus River ood surge aects Pre-ood water ! Fort Abbās approximately eight districts in Punjab Province. ! Mankera Trimmu International boundary In preparation, the GoP preemptively evacuates « Province capital Dam !Jhang more than 500,000 people in Sindh, according to Province boundary ! Populated place the UN. (UN) Fatehpur District boundary Ð Selected dam ! ³ Aug 6: According to UN OCHA as of August 6, Indus Highway or barrage Muzzaarghar is believed to be the worst-aected district in Punjab with over 900,000 people Primary road s aected. The ood wave in Punjab destroyed Primary railroad u !Leiah d more than 1.4m acres of cropland. (OCHA) n d I a 0 25 50 100 Km jn Punjab n Aug 7: Rajanpur district is also hard hit by ooding. a Murgha P Three dykes break on Aug. 6 causing oods in the Kibzai ! district capital. Sections of the Indus highway 0 20 40 80 Mi !Taunsa Sidhnāi submerged under four feet of water. Dykes outside Barrage the city of Dera Ghazi Khan hold when hit by the Taunsa Barrage ood wave. Ravi ³ Aug 7-8: Flood wave owing from the north exits ³ ! Punjab and enters Sindh province, but additional ! ! Mekhtar Kot rainfall further aects ood-hit districts. 167 relief Addu Miān camps are established as of August 8. (OCHA) Channūn Dera Ghāzi Khānewāl! Aug 8: According to UNICEF, over 40 health Khān facilities, 2,000 schools, and 45 water supply Muzaffargarh Multān systems in Punjab have been damaged or ! destroyed. (OCHA) Balochistan Aug 9: According to Punjab Chief Minister for Flood ! ! Dera Muzaffargarh Relief Pervaiz Malik, relatively few Punjabis were Ghāzi killed by the ood wave because of evacuation !Fort Bara Khān notication and procedures. (USG) Shujāābād ! d Aug 10: Revised estimates by Punjab authorities a Mailsi! n indicate that 8.2m people and 3m acres of cropland j n have been aected by the oods, of those 6m will a require food aid for six months. Meanwhile, Sindh P Aug 6: Indus River ood surge aects authorities claim 1.1m people have been aected. (USG) Jāmpur! approximately eight districts in Punjab Panjnad Province. In preparation, the Government of Barrage lej Pakistan preemptively evacuatesSut more than 500,000 people in Sindh. ! ! Aug 6: AccordingBahāwalpur to UN OCHA, Muzaargarh Rājanpur Alīpur ³ is believed to be the worst-aected district in Punjab with over 900,000 people aected. The ood wave in Punjab destroys more than ! Rājanpur! s Ahmadpur 1.4m acres East (566,560 ha) of cropland. Rajanpur u d In district is also hard hit by ooding. Three dikes break on Aug. 6 causing oods in the district capital. Sections of the Indus Highway are ! submerged under four feet (1.2 meters) of Chācharān water. Dikes outside the city of Dera Ghazi Khan hold when hit by the ood wave. ! Aug 7-8: Flood wave owing from the north Khānpur exits Punjab and enters Sindh province, but additional rainfall further aects ood-hit districts. Kashmor! ! Aug 8: According to UNICEF, over 40 health Rahīmyār Khān facilities, 2,000 schools, and 45 water supply Sādiqābād! systems in Punjab are damaged or destroyed. Punjab Chief Minister for Flood Relief Pervaiz Malik claims relatively few Punjabis were killed by the ood wave because of evacuation notication and procedures. Ghotki ! Aug 10: Revised estimates by Punjab authorities indicate that 3m acres (1.2m ha) are inundated and 8.2m people are aected, including 6m who will require food aid for six Sindh months. Meanwhile, Sindh authorities claim INDIA 1.1m people are aected by the oods. Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative. Sources: USG, UN, UN August 20, 2010 - U262 STATE (HIU) UNCLASSIFIED OCHA, UNOSAT Page 3 of 5 U.S. Department of State UNCLASSIFIED [email protected] http://hiu.state.gov HUMANITARIAN INFORMATION UNIT Pakistan: Flooding August 11 - 19 Rahīmyār Khān Kashmor! ! Jacobābād Kashmor ! ! Kandhkot ! s Sādiqābād Balochistan du Jacobābād In Garhi Khairo! Gudu Punjab Shikarpur Barrage ! Gudu Shikarpur ! ³ Shahdadkot ! Ratodero! Sukkur Barrage ! Shahdadkot ³ Sukkur ! INDIA Kambar ! Khairpur Lārkāna ! Aug 11: According to Sindh authorities, the ood wave arrives in Sindh by Aug. 8. As of Aug. 11, the Indus River at Gudu and Sukkur barrages are at ! Kot “exceptionally high ood levels” and the districts of Diji Kashmore, Shikarpur, Jacobabad, and Shahdadkot Mehar! are on high alert. New ooding is reported in parts of Balochistan. Aug 11: UN launches a 90-day ash appeal of Naushahro $460m for emergency ood aid. At the time of the Fīroz ! UN announcement, $125m has been pledged. Dādu! Aug 12: The World Bank commits $900m for relief Johi! Moro ! and reconstruction. Aug 13: Fearing imminent ooding in Jacobabad, 300,000 people evacuate, eeing as far Sehwān! south as Karachi. Meanwhile, authorities announce Sindh that four sites in Karachi are identied for future “tent cities.” Nawabshah ! Aug 15: Sindh authorities claim that 3.7m people have been aected in the province and that In economic losses total $467m. Meanwhile, 618 du s Sanghar relief! camps are established in the province. ! Mānjhand Aug 17: A second wave of ooding hits the Gudu Tando and Sukkur barrages causing water levels to rise. Ādam! The main road link between northern Sindh and Balochistan is ooded in several places and poses! Kotri Barrage a challenge in transporting aid from Sukkur to oodedMīrpur areas in Balochistan. !Khās ! Aug 18: The NDMA requests the assistance of ³ UNHCR in establishing a camp coordination cluster ! ! Kotri Hyderābād to assist in the management of the ever increasing number of relief camps in Punjab, Sindh, and KPk. Tando Muhammad Aug. 19:!Digri To date, USAID and the Dept. of State, Khān! Kinjhar have committed $150m towards the Pakistan ood Dam crisis, in addition to Dept. of Defense support. Karāchi «! Flood-aected land/possible ood water (Aug. 13-17) !Korangi ³ ! ! Pre-ood water Thatta s Ghāro u International boundary « Province capital d Badīn! n I Province boundary ! Populated place District boundary Ð Selected dam Indus Highway ! or barrage Primary road Jāti! Arabian Primary railroad Sea 0 25 50 100 Km Keti !Bandar 0 20 40 80 Mi Names and boundary representation are not necessarily authoritative.