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High flood will pass through Kotri Barrage today. Photo: Flood Forecasting Division    KARACHI: After causing widespread devastations and fatalities in different areas of Sindh, Punjab and other parts of the country, a high flood of 560,000 cusecs will pass through Kotri Barrage today, said Sukkur Barrage control room in-charge.  Sukkur Barrage was in high flood as the reservoir received flows of 600,000 cusecs of water from Taunsa Barrage, said the official. He maintained that 29,000 cusecs of water has been added to the reservoir during the past 24 hours.  In view of the expected flood, all the canals originating from the barrage have been closed for an unidentified period, he added. A flow of 559,998 cusecs was recorded upstream, while the downstream flow was 559,998 cusecs, said the official. The high flood was heading towards Kotri Barrage, he added. As per the Flood Forecasting Division (FFD), Kotri Barrage had an inflow of 513669 cusecs upstream and 503464 cuse

Indian BJP MLA Raja Singh. PHOTO: FACEBOOK/@RajaSinghOfficial FO berates India for its silence on such incidents and protecting blasphemers. Demands India take immediate action against  BJP members habitually involved in attacking Islam. Calls on int'l community to take cognisance of increasing Islamophobia in India. Pakistan has strongly condemned the blasphemous remarks against Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) by another official of India's ruling BJP.  This is the second time in the last three months that a BJP leader has made derogatory remarks against the holy prophet (PBUH) as the first time was when Nupur Sharma committed blasphemy in June. "Pakistan condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the highly provocative and sacrilegious remarks made against the Holy Prophet [Muhammad] (PBUH), by Raja Singh, a BJP official and a member of the state legislative assembly of the Indian state of Telangana," a statement issued by the Foreign Office read. It stated that

arrest of the senior anchorperson Imran Riaz ATTOCK: Attock Police on Tuesday said they had arrested senior anchorperson Imran Riaz Khan in a case pertaining to alleged smear campaign against Pakistan’s armed forces. Police said 10 sections were added in the FIR against the journalist and plaintiff of the case was a police official. The FIR was lodged in Attock City police station. Bol news channel reporter Hafiz Khalil Ahmed said the journalist was being shifted from Islamabad to Attock. Police on Tuesday arrested

In this photograph taken on August 22, 2015, employees fill water tankers at a government hydrant to provide residential areas in Karachi. — AFP Official says people not paying water bills to get legal notices. He instructs authorities to show no leniency with water thieves. Make mechanism of water distribution transparent, he directs. KARACHI: Secretary for the Local Government, Housing, and Town Planning Sindh Engineer Syed Najam Ahmad Shah said Tuesday that strict action should be taken against those who steal water allocated for the people of Karachi and Hyderabad. The secretary made the comments during a meeting attended by Special Secretary Local Government Khalid Chachar, Hyderabad deputy commissioner, and director-general of the Hyderabad Development Authority while officials of the Water and Sanitation Agency (WASA) were also present. On the occasion, Syed Najam Ahmad Shah said that the people of Karachi and Hyderabad should not face the water shortage and tha