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Here’s how to help people affected by the devastating floods in Punjab​


These organisations are actively involved in rescue, relief and reconstruction efforts across the province.

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03 Sep, 2025

Punjab has been hit with the worst floods the province has seen in four decades — over 1.5 million people have been impacted by floods in the Chenab, Ravi and Sutlej rivers as the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) reports almost 200 deaths and 600 injuries. The national death toll from this year’s deadly monsoon season has reached 829 since rains started in June, as per the NDMA.

The Gurdwara Darbar Sahib at Kartarpur was inundated, leading to haunting images of the entire first floor under water. Floods are expected to cross into Sindh between September 2 and 3, and impact another 1.65 million people.

There are several organisations undertaking rescue and relief efforts in the impacted areas that you can donate to in order to help the people of Punjab in this trying time.

We featured Al-Khidmat in our piece on flood relief in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) as well. The organisation has expanded the scope of its relief work with camps in Narowal, Kasur and Lahore, with teams working in other districts around the province. They accept donations as direct transfers and as payments via debit/credit cards.

Al-Khidmat

Al-Khidmat is also looking for volunteers to assist with rescue efforts, data collection, surveying, and photo documentation in impacted areas.

Akhuwat
Akhuwat is working to provide much-needed supplies such as ration bags and cooked food to displacement camps across the country. They accept card payments from international donors and will take cards, bank transfers and even cheques from people based in Pakistan.

Islamic Relief World wide

Islamic Relief has been working to assist flood-hit communities in Pakistan since the early days of the crisis and has so far helped over 18,000 people by providing essential supplies. Being an international organisation, their website allows both Pakistani and foreign donors to help fund their operations in the country.
 

JDC Foundation​

Karachi-based JDC Foundation is providing tents, clothing, blankets, rations and other essentials to people who have lost their homes and livelihoods to the floods. They accept online payments through their website and take transfers through banks and Paypal.

Saylani is providing medicines, clean drinking water, rations and tents to people, with volunteers on the ground to handle the distribution of supplies. Their websites accept payments from donors in the US, UK, Canada and Turkiye. Pakistani donors can also donate online and through bank transfers.

Muslim Aid
UK-based Muslim Aid has been working prominently in flood-hit areas to provide food and drinking water. The organisation also plans to fund reconstruction efforts once the floods subside. Donors based in the UK and the US can donate to the orga
 
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According to Dr Hassaan, India released water from multiple dams in recent days as they had reached their capacity. “That is what the Indian side is claiming," he said. "While Pakistan cannot verify this directly, it makes sense given the context. Such releases are not unusual.”

Both extreme rainfall and weather played a role in this year’s flooding in the region. “India saw record-breaking rains, especially in Himachal Pradesh, which sent large flows of water into rivers," he said. "India was also forced to release water into the Sutlej and Ravi. Prime Minister Modi had previously said India would not allow even a drop of water from these rivers to flow into Pakistan, but when storage is impossible, the water has to be flushed out. They prefer to store water for use in the low-flow season of November and December.”

In response to our question, Dr Hassaan stressed there is no evidence that India deliberately released water to harm Pakistan. “Speculation is possible, but we have never found proof of intentional action," he said. "Since the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, India no longer shares detailed data as before. Now, only brief notifications are sent through the Indian High Commissioner, which is inadequate compared to past agreements. The early warning system is much weaker now.”
 
Environmental lawyer Ahmed Rafay Alam pointed out that dam infrastructure on both sides is "essentially the same". India has three major dams on the Jhelum, Beas, and Ravi. Pakistan has Mangla and Tarbela dams. "Both countries store monsoon and glacier water for winter crops, and both sets of dams were built by American companies. Their designs and operations are essentially the same.”

Photo: Ibrahim Yahya


Photo: Ibrahim Yahya

This year, however, the situation became critical. “The Pong Dam on the Beas, the Bhakra Dam on the Sutlej near Himachal Pradesh, and the Madhopur Headworks on the Ravi reached dangerous levels between August 23 and 25," he said. "To protect infrastructure, India opened the spillways, and some gates of the Madhopur barrage even collapsed due to water pressure, causing one death. This is what we call a ‘controlled release’ of water.”
 
Dr Daanish Mustafa, a professor of water resource geography at King’s College London, added: “Water release occurs when the safe design capacity of a reservoir is exceeded. No infrastructure can stop the peak flow of monsoon water.

It’s that simple. In fact, India has faced even greater destruction than Pakistan, because by the time the water reaches us, its force is already reduced.”
 
ghazi52 said:
According to Dr Hassaan, India released water from multiple dams in recent days as they had reached their capacity. “That is what the Indian side is claiming," he said. "While Pakistan cannot verify this directly, it makes sense given the context. Such releases are not unusual.”

Both extreme rainfall and weather played a role in this year’s flooding in the region. “India saw record-breaking rains, especially in Himachal Pradesh, which sent large flows of water into rivers," he said. "India was also forced to release water into the Sutlej and Ravi. Prime Minister Modi had previously said India would not allow even a drop of water from these rivers to flow into Pakistan, but when storage is impossible, the water has to be flushed out. They prefer to store water for use in the low-flow season of November and December.”

In response to our question, Dr Hassaan stressed there is no evidence that India deliberately released water to harm Pakistan. “Speculation is possible, but we have never found proof of intentional action," he said. "Since the suspension of the Indus Waters Treaty, India no longer shares detailed data as before. Now, only brief notifications are sent through the Indian High Commissioner, which is inadequate compared to past agreements. The early warning system is much weaker now.”
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Ravi, Punjab and Satluj initiate from Himachal Pardesh mountainous region which is an extension of Himalayas and right behind Kashmir.

Water that starts from here, takes a week to get to the dams built on the border of India-Pakistan border. So like every country, they knew where there dam levels were when the raining moon-soon started. So with every rainfall increasing water flow, they could calculate 7 days in advance how coming water will effect their dam levels. It's all mathematics 2+2 =4.

So if 2 lac cubic square feet water is coming and the dams are full, they would start to release 30000-35000 cubic square foot a day. In about 7 days, they will have make room for this incoming 2 lac cubic square feet water. So the dam will go back to being full. Plus, this 35 thousand cubic square foot wave every day, would flow through Ravi (or any river) smoothly without causing a flood and it will adjust flood waters into their dams also.

They didn't do this. What they did instead, taking the same example, knowing there is 2 lac cubic square feet water coming, the first stopped the release like we all heard over two months ago and we thought Modi was acting good on his promise to stop water flow to Pakistan. By doing that, even the normal water flow was blocked in multiple dams, causing the levels to rise. Then add my example of 2 lac cubic square feet. Right before this 2 lac cusec entered the dam, they opened ALL spillways generating a sudden surge of 2 lac+ cusec per dam. Apply this on 3 dams, and there's flood in Pakistan in 3 rivers.

It doesn't stop here, after releasing this massive quantity of water, they then released the massive quantity of water entering into the dam (that 2 lac cusec from Himachal). This second waves piled on top of first release made these floods a "super flood".

There is a serious change more water can come also. This is purely water terrorism, nothing less. Had they released this same water slowly and in daily batches, nothing would've happened in Pakistan at this scale.
 
As the confluence of the swollen Ravi and Chenab rivers near Khanewal threatens the districts of Multan and Muzaffargarh, provincial authorities on Wednesday braced for an unprecedented disaster in light of a “dual threat”, which persisted despite several controlled breaches over the past week.

The water level at Muhammadwala and Sher Shah was recorded at 412 feet, only five feet below critical level. The authorities termed the next 12 hours critical, as the pressure at the breaching points continued to increase after the convergence of the Ravi and Chenab rivers near Khanewal.

Read more: https://www.dawn.com/news/1939554
 
Editorial: KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s support for the dead Kalabagh dam project has stirred up a storm. His endorsement of the dam runs contrary to popular public opinion not just in Sindh and Balochistan but also in his own province.

Ostensibly contingent on addressing provincial reservations to the controversial hydropower project on the Indus, his support for the dam — opposed by the provincial assemblies of Sindh, KP and Balochistan in the not so distant past — has baffled his own party as well. PTI leaders from KP and Sindh quickly disowned his statements.

Read full editorial here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1939558/kalabagh-again
 
Fatman17 said:
Editorial: KP Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur’s support for the dead Kalabagh dam project has stirred up a storm. His endorsement of the dam runs contrary to popular public opinion not just in Sindh and Balochistan but also in his own province.

Ostensibly contingent on addressing provincial reservations to the controversial hydropower project on the Indus, his support for the dam — opposed by the provincial assemblies of Sindh, KP and Balochistan in the not so distant past — has baffled his own party as well. PTI leaders from KP and Sindh quickly disowned his statements.

Read full editorial here: https://www.dawn.com/news/1939558/kalabagh-again
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Utter retardedness

If you let the jahils stop you from building dams and reservoirs then let them suffer

You can't fix stupid
 
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