National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA)

Rain-thunderstorm (with light Snowfall over hills) is expected in Quetta, Zhob, Ziarat, Qila Abdullah during Friday (night) to Saturday, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) has said in its forecast.

The Frontier Works Organization (FWO) personnel have reached Gujjar Nullah with over 50 dumpers, cranes and other machinery to remove garbage, which had choked free flow of the water in the drain in recent rainfall and submerged adjacent area.

A spokesperson of NDMA has said that swarms of locusts have spread to 52 districts of the country including 31 in Balochistan, 10 districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, six in Sindh and five districts in Punjab.

He claimed that Sindh had enough ventilators for the Covid-19 patients currently adding that the NDMA had also provided the province 20 additional by-pipe ventilators.

He said that 39,500 PPEs have been provided to frontline doctors and there is no shortage of necessary medical equipment to handle coronavirus in the country.

PAKISTAN: The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has issued its facts and figures pertaining to the earthquake.

RAWALPINDI/KARACHI: Pakistan Army and Sindh Rangers have formed heatstroke centers for the people affected from worst heatwave in Karachi, ARY News reported.