Naya Kashmir Report
LAHORE: In the latest act of water terrorism, India suddenly discharged excessive cusecs into the Sutlej River has triggered flooding in Kasur’s Ganda Singh Wala, submerging villages and devastating thousands of acres of farmland.
According to officials, rescue efforts have been launched as villagers and their livestock are being shifted to safer ground.
In Burewala, floodwaters spread through the SahuKa area and nearby rural settlements, submerging farmland and cutting off hundreds of villages after a breach on the SahuKa–Chishtian road.
Dozens of agrarian families in Bahawalpur and Bahawalnagar helplessly watched their livelihoods wash away as their mainstay crops — cotton, rice, and sesame — were now underwater.
Moreover, panicked villagers have been forced to leave behind ancestral homes built over generations, carrying whatever they can and wading through waist-deep waters in search of shelter.
According to the Flood Forecasting Division in Lahore, a medium flood is passing through Head Sulemanki. The River Chenab is also swelling, with a low flood recorded at Marala and Khanki.
In the River Indus, moderate flooding is being reported at Guddu and Sukkur barrages, while at Tarbela, Kalabagh, and Chashma, the water levels are high enough to cause a low flood situation, according to the division.
Meanwhile, breaking a long silence since their May military standoff, India has reached out to Pakistan through the Indus Waters Treaty (IWT), sharing details on potential flood threats, official sources said early on Monday.
According to the sources, New Delhi warned Pakistan of a potential major flood in the Tawi River at Jammu.
The Indian High Commission in Islamabad conveyed the alert, with the communication made on the morning of August 24, they added.
It is the first major contact of its kind since the Pakistan-India war in May, the sources noted.
