Pakistan

City saved from deluge as Johi Branch canal replugged

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Unidentified men create breach in Johi Branch canal.
Scores of residents from nearby areas rushed to plug it.
590 people have died in Sindh from deadly floods, rains.

DADU: Disaster was averted in Sindh’s Johi city Saturday after a breach — created by unidentified men — was replugged, sources in the rivers department said, as the country battles cataclysmic floods.

The breach, which was created a few hours back on the Johi Branch canal, caused pressure on the canal’s ring dyke, which could have led to the drowning of homes nearby.

Scores of residents from nearby areas were seen attempting to plug the breach through their own resources to save the city from sinking, according to Geo News.

Authorities have also made a breach in the Larkana-Sehwan bund to prevent floodwaters from entering Dadu City.

In another incident, flash floods resulted in a breach in the Dal branch and the floodwaters entered a grid station in Bhan Saeedabad and hit the city’s ring dykes.

A large number of people have gathered there and are trying to strengthen its embankments.

It is pertinent to mention here that the water level in Sindh’s two barrages is decreasing rapidly, however, a high flood is currently passing through Kotri Barrage.

The floodwater is overflowing at some points at the Kotri Barrage.

Manchar’s water flowing backward

The diversions made in Pakistan’s largest lake, Manchar, have not worked as the water levels of the Indus River rose and the lake’s water began to flow backwards instead of into the river.

The Indus Link seam drain near Tilti has cracked due to the pressure of the lake water, posing a threat to the city of Bhan Saeedabad, while the displacement of citizens continues.

Strong water flows from Manchar Lake have caused destruction, affecting more than 150,000 people in more than 500 villages across seven union councils in Sehwan.

While the Pakistan Army is conducting rescue efforts in the affected areas, there are many locations where people are trapped in water.

A 150km stretch of land from Qamber Shahdadkot to Manchar Lake is completely submerged and hundreds of villages in the Khairpur Nathan Shah, Wara tehsils, Sujawal, and Dadu tehsils are now underwater.

The bogies of the relief train between Budapur Railway Station and Khaot have derailed as a result of water on the tracks.

The destruction, deaths, economic loss

Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers triggered the disaster that has shown no sign of abating for the last month. The United Nations and Pakistan have linked the extreme weather to climate change; some 600,000 people have fled their homes.

As many as 33 million people of the 220 million South Asian nation have been affected in some way by the floods that swept away houses, roads, railways and bridges and submerged around 4 million acres of farmland.

Pakistan has estimated the financial loss so far at around $30 billion.

Health Minister for Sindh, Azra Fazal Pechuho, said a total of 856,000 patients had been treated since the floods began, mostly at mobile hospitals because more than 1,200 health facilities were under water.

Conditions including dysentery, diarrhoea, malaria, skin diseases, and dengue fever are already widespread, she told a news briefing earlier this week.

As a result of the monsoon rains and floods, a total of 590 people have lost their lives in Sindh, with 12 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Provincial Disaster Management Authority’s (PDMA) data showed. Some 8,321 people have also been injured.

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SC schedules SIC’s requested seats for hearing

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For the SIC reserved seat case hearing, the top court assembled a three-member bench, according to the details.

Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Athar Minallah round out the three-person bench led by Justice Mansoor Ali Shah.

The ruling of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on reserved seats in the upper court was earlier declared to be challenged by Barrister Gohar, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Barrister Gohar stated that in regards to the reserved seats issue, they will ask the supreme court to assemble a larger bench.

The Sunni Ittehad Council’s (SIC) petitions regarding reserved seats in legislatures were denied by the Peshawar High Court (PHC), which is noteworthy to highlight here.

Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim read the reserved verdict as the five-member high court panel made a unanimous decision regarding the petition.

Barrister Ali Zafar apologized for missing the hearing when he came to the rostrum.

According to him, the candidates must run as independents because the PTI’s election emblem, “bat,” was taken before the poll.

Regarding the inquiry concerning the quantity of seats in the national assembly and regional assemblies. According to the SIC lawyer, the party is represented by 86 members in the National Assembly, 90 in the Punjab, 107 in Sindh, and 1 in the Balochistan Assembly. “The SIC has 226 seats in assemblies overall, and it is eligible for 78 reserved seats,” he continued.

“We were kept apart by the election commission, and the remaining political parties were given reserved seats,” the attorney claimed. Since it was an empty piece of land, some political parties asked the ECP to give us these seats.

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According to the CTD report, KP saw 179 terror acts in 2024.

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The study claims that 179 terrorist attacks took place in the province this year, with 91 terrorists losing their lives as a result.

According to the report, there were 60 instances in January, 38 in February, 33 in March, and 48 in April. With 31 terrorists slain, February saw the highest number of terrorist deaths.

In addition, 14 terrorists were slain in North Waziristan and 19 in Dera Ismail Khan.
The investigation also shows that Mohsin Qadir, Azmatullah, and Fareedullah were among the 16 most wanted terrorists that were slain.

In addition, 2 suicide vests, 36 hand grenades, and 247 kg of explosives were found, according to the CTD investigation.

To add to the difficult security situation in the province, the study also showed that 10 attacks against police teams were documented this year.

Up to 563 terror attacks happened in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2023, and out of those instances, police were targeted 243 times, according to a report released by the Anti-Terrorism Department (CTD) last year.

The study indicates that Dera Ismail Khan reported the largest number of terrorist occurrences at 132, followed by Khyber with 103 and Peshawar with 89 terror incidents.

The study additionally disclosed that terrorists targeted North Waziristan 86 times and South Waziristan 50 times. Eighty-seven terrorists were detained, according to the report.

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Pakistan launches first-ever lunar mission with iCube Qamar

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China’s Chang’E6 spacecraft carried Pakistan’s first satellite mission to the moon, iCube Qamar, into orbit.

The Institute of Space Technology states that IST worked with Pakistan’s national space agency SUPARCO and China’s Shanghai University SJTU to design and develop the satellite ICUBE-Q.

The launch event was streamed live on both Chinese state television and the IST website.

Two optical cameras are carried by the ICUBE-Q orbiter to capture images of the lunar surface. ICUBE-Q has now been successfully integrated into the Chang’e6 mission after qualification and testing.

The sixth in China’s sequence of lunar exploration missions is called Chang’e6.

China’s Lunar Mission, Chang’6, will land on the Moon’s far side in order to gather surface samples and bring them back to Earth for analysis.

Pakistan would benefit from the mission since it will carry a Pakistan CubeSat Satellite, called iCube-Q, which was created by IST.

Small satellites known as “CubeSats” are typified by their uniform design and compact size. They are built in the form of a cube and are made up of modular parts that follow predetermined dimensions.

These satellites are regularly placed in orbit for a variety of uses and only weigh a few kilos.

Cubesats are primarily used to support space exploration education, technology development, and scientific research. Many different missions are carried out by these satellites, such as telecommunication, astronomy, remote sensing, Earth observation, atmospheric research, and technological demonstration.

CubeSats provide universities, research centers, and commercial organizations with the chance to engage in space missions and acquire important data for scientific advancement and innovation because of their small size and very low cost when compared to regular satellites.

They act as test beds for novel ideas and technology, opening up space to a wider spectrum of users and encouraging cooperation amongst members of the space community.