• Gilani urges residents to evacuate after the decision to violate Shershah Dyke before another increase; Four drowning boats after the boats overturned in Rahim Yar Khan
• The waters of the floods do not go back as ‘backwater effect’ prevents Chenab from flowing towards the Indo; High level alert for Sutlej after the notice of India
• PM Shehbaz Forms Committee to assess flood damage; The official says more than 4 million people affected by floods
LAHORE: The districts of southern Punjab, particularly fine, run the risk of serious floods due to the Chenab fan river, and the authorities prepare for a rape in Sher Shah Dyke to save the urban centers of the flood.
Although a decision had not been made to violate the Bund of Shershah at the time of pressing, the officials were clear that the dike would have to be raped if the water level crossed the critical threshold of 393.5 feet. Until Monday night, the water level was stable at 393 feet.
The authorities said the flood would approach fine in the next 48 hours, which would make the situation very critical for the city, which is already at risk of floods.
In this context, it seemed that the decision to violate the embankment had already been made anticipating a massive increase that is directed towards fine from the trimmu heads.
MNA and Ex-PM Yousaf Raza Gilani, in a Facebook publication, asked people who lived in settlements along the embankment to move immediately. The PPP leader said the water would deviate towards Sher Shah, Gagra Kachhor, Mouza Hamar and other adjacent areas to break the flood force and avoid more damage.
Meanwhile, the waters of the floods that had entered Jalpur Pirwala on Sunday immersed more locations in the district, including Alipur Tehsil. Due to a backwater effect that prevented the Chenab from falling in the Indo, the water had begun to flow upstream of Panjnad.
The water first entered the downstream settlements of Panjnad, Makhan Bela, Azmatpur, Bait Mullanwali, Bait Nabi Shah, Paka Naich, Bazwala, Lati Marri, Bait Burraha, Kundrala and Bait Channa, and later flooded the lougeniest areas of Ghalwan-I and Dammar Wala Wala. The authorities relocated thousands of people to save them from floods.
Separately, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif constituted a committee led by the Minister for Planning of Ahsan IQBAL to complete the Damage Evaluation Report and needs of the flood floods in progress within two weeks.
Threat of flooding
Going to a press conference in fine, the general director of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority, Irfan Ali Kathia, said Jalpur Pirwala still faced the threat of flooding. He said that the first flood was slowly moving and that the water did not go back, while another increase in Trimmu’s head was on his way to fine.
He said the pressure would increase in the head Muhammadwala and Sher Shah Dyke in the next 24 hours. He said that 63 people lost their lives and rescue boats had made 27,000 trips in fine, and added that 4300 villages in 26 districts were affected due to the floods of Ravi, Sutlej and Chenab.
The Commissioner of fine, Aamir Kareem Khan said that 4,000 people were evacuated and transferred to safer places in Jalpur Pirwala.
The Punjab Help Commissioner, Nabil Javaid, said that 4,199 million people of 4,300 villages were affected due to floods in the Eastern rivers. He said that 2,147 million people, who were trapped in the floods, had been relocated in safer places and 412 relief and 492 medical camps were established in the districts affected by floods.
The commissioner also shared the water situation of different dams, including the mangla dam was full of 88 percent, while the Tarbela dam was full of 100 percent. According to the commissioner, the Indian Bhakra dam on the Sutlej River was full of 90 percent, the Pong dam was full of 99 percent, while the dam was full of 97 percent.
Previously, the PDMA published a high -level flood alert for the Sutlej River, after an official notice of the High Commission of India with respect to the increase in water flow.
According to the alert, the river was experiencing a high level of flooding in the downstream points of Harike and Ferozepur in India, indicating that water levels were expected to increase even more within Pakistan.
The Ganda Singh Wala heads in the Sutlej would continue on an exceptionally high flood. In addition to river floods, Punjab urban centers also faced urban floods.
Lahore registered a heavy rain in several of its areas, with some locations, including jail, received more than 100 mm rain on Monday. Meanwhile, the torrential downpour in Faisalabad broke a 30 -year record for the city.
Flowing back
Until Monday night, floods did not go back when the Indo River was going back to the water from the Sutlej, Chenab and Ravi rivers. Due to this background effect, the operational capacity of the Panjnad heads had also been reduced, according to a PDMA official.
Despite a constant flow of more than 524,000 cusecs in Panjnad, the water flowed upstream. Panjnad had registered a flow of 609,664 Cusecs until 12:30 am and the water backed up 524,762 Cusecs at 3:30 pm
Like the Indo, the Chenab is going back to Ravi Waters, a phenomenon that has previously led to a dangerous increase in the pressure in the flood of Sidhnai in the Ravi River.
During the last days, the flows had remained dangerously stable with more than 135,000 Cusecs despite the falling of the upstream bucloki. To avoid a catastrophic violation in Sidhnai, the government had to violate in the Mai embankment to save the flood.
In a second important emergency operation, a controlled violation was made on the Sutlej River near Jalalpur Pirwala on Sunday night to divert the water to the Vehari district.
Ryk overturned
Three people were killed while at least 8-10 people, mostly children, disappeared after a boat overturned in Chenab’s flood water in the Tehsil Liaqatpur Noorwala area.
The reports said a boat that transported almost 28 people overturned in Mouza Noorwala located in the Chenab river bed area.
Irfanul Haq at Rahim Yar Khan contributed to this report
Posted in Dawn, September 9, 2025
