Floods in South Punjab 

In Rajan Por Dera Ghazi Khan Taunsa Sharif  of South Punjab, the water level was 15 to 20 feet high when the flood relay reached their settlements.

Many houses were destroyed by the first wave of water. The houses that survived this first wave gradually disappeared into the water over the next few days.

Many districts, villages and towns of South Punjab have been wiped out in this way, according to an estimate, more than 5000 villages have been submerged and millions of people have been displaced and are forced to live under the open sky. Pahchi Local people are helping each other as far as possible. There are many places where there are difficulties due to road closures. It is still not possible to reach DG Khan's Koh Sulaiman areas.

Women and children were rescued from the settlement by rescue teams, but many other men had to wait for some time. Some youths of the village pulled them out of the flooded settlement with the help of drums.

It has been almost a month۔The flood water is still standing in many areas in the suburbs of Gur Rajanpur city and Dera Ghazi Khan.Several acres of land are under water۔ And according to an estimate, the depth of water here is still more than eight feet.

Cotton and rice crops have been submerged in this flood. The families of a few others are living in aided tents on the embankment of a nearby canal. Their remaining cattle are also tied here.

Every time a car stops near this small tent village, the locals rush towards it. They gather around him in the hope that the people who come will help them. But it doesn't happen every time.

Visitors come here with the impression that 'perhaps we have already received a lot of aid that we have hidden and are asking for more.' These tents are open, you see where it is hidden.

But here is a tent whose dweller is more concerned with future days than with temporal relief. Now how will they rebuild the house? If there is no house, where will fifteen members of his family, including his widowed daughter and his six children, find shelter?

Will the family here have to spend the winter in tents? They used to work hard on the land. Now there is no work left and neither do they have any savings with which they can build a new house.

I still don't understand what will happen. This water will take a long time to dry up. By that time we will not even be able to go back to the village.

People here think that the water is so high that it will take at least six months to dry up. They believe that this time the flood water was too high, but they are annoyed to think that they could have avoided the disaster.

They could also avoid the agony of waiting for the water to dry. If the water had not stopped, they would have gone back to their village early and the rehabilitation process would have started by now. He also hoped to get help from the government immediately.

As the water of the nearby canals came out, there were many dams in its path, it collided with them and changed its direction and came towards us and we drowned. And now there is no way for this water to get out.

He said if you drown then drown.

According to local people, similarly, other landlords and influential people of the area have barricaded the place to protect themselves. We are poor people, we cannot afford to tie a band. So whenever there is a flood we drown

They say that they went to the local chieftain with a request that if they make a small crack in the dam, the stagnant flood water will come out and they will be able to go back to their homes.

He said why should I crack. If you sink, sink. He drove us away.

People had to return back disappointed. He also requested the Sardar to build such a dam around his village. "We also have small children, we are devastated."

In many districts of South Punjab, villages and hamlets are submerged due to such earthen embankments and remain under water for long periods due to lack of drainage.