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Associated Press Of Pakistan ( Pakistan's Premier NEWS Agency )
COAS visits flood-hit areas
MULTAN, Aug 17 (APP): Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani Tuesday visited flood-hit areas and appreciated the mechanism for swift transportation of relief items to the flood hit people.Twenty one trucks and six helicopters transported 200 ton relief goods on Tuesday to the affected people in Rajanpur, Jampur, Layyah, Kotaddu, Mehmoodkot, Sinawan, and Daira Deen Panah, says an ISPR release.
Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Shafqaat Ahmad received the COAS upon his arrival in Multan after visiting flood-hit areas. The COAS also visited 2 Corps Flood Relief Centre in Multan and expressed his pleasures to see the generous contributions from the philanthropists and other people to help the affected communities.
He appreciated the passion of philanthropists in helping their brethren and hoped they would keep sending relief goods and donations with the same spirit.
Later, COAS left for Sukkur after taking an aerial view of the flood-hit South Punjab.
Meanwhile, Army rescue teams rescued 150 people on Tuesday and shifted them to safer places from Shah Jamal, Shah Garh, and Retra on the instructions from Corps Commander Multan.
Army engineering Corps is not only busy in plugging breaches in canals but also restoring road links broken by the historys worst ever floods.
He directed Army officers and Jawans to ensure swift transportation of relief goods to affected people so that they may not feel themselves alone in these testing times.
COAS visits flood-hit areas
MULTAN, Aug 17 (APP): Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani Tuesday visited flood-hit areas and appreciated the mechanism for swift transportation of relief items to the flood hit people.Twenty one trucks and six helicopters transported 200 ton relief goods on Tuesday to the affected people in Rajanpur, Jampur, Layyah, Kotaddu, Mehmoodkot, Sinawan, and Daira Deen Panah, says an ISPR release.
Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Shafqaat Ahmad received the COAS upon his arrival in Multan after visiting flood-hit areas. The COAS also visited 2 Corps Flood Relief Centre in Multan and expressed his pleasures to see the generous contributions from the philanthropists and other people to help the affected communities.
He appreciated the passion of philanthropists in helping their brethren and hoped they would keep sending relief goods and donations with the same spirit.
Later, COAS left for Sukkur after taking an aerial view of the flood-hit South Punjab.
Meanwhile, Army rescue teams rescued 150 people on Tuesday and shifted them to safer places from Shah Jamal, Shah Garh, and Retra on the instructions from Corps Commander Multan.
Army engineering Corps is not only busy in plugging breaches in canals but also restoring road links broken by the historys worst ever floods.
He directed Army officers and Jawans to ensure swift transportation of relief goods to affected people so that they may not feel themselves alone in these testing times.