RAWALPINDI: In solidarity with the flood affected people of Pakistan, central ceremony at General Headquarters (GHQ) to commemorate Defence & Martyrs Day on 6 September has been postponed.
According to the Inter-Services Public Relations, the ceremony of Defence and Martyrs Day has been postponed in solidarity and Pakistan Armed Forces shall continue serving our brothers and sisters struck by unprecedented floods.
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The torrential monsoon rains across the country on Wednesday continued claiming further lives and inflicting losses to property as the total death count in various incidents reached 1,302 with 36 more deaths in past 24 hours and 3,554 individuals got injured since the onset of the rainy season.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) issued a 24-hour situation report released on routine basis that accounted overall life, property, and infrastructure losses incurred by the heavy rains lashing out various parts of the country.
The heavy rains and flash floods caused deaths of four women and a man in Kachhi district of Balochistan.
