The monsoon rainfall-induced floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have destroyed everything in their way, killing hundreds of people and damaging infrastructure worth billions of Rupees.
Late on Friday night, the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Nowshera, Mir Reza Ozgen, issued a red alert, ordering people to evacuate the city at the earliest as a ‘very high and above level’ flood from the Kabul River was set to hit Nowshera.
The administrative machinery led by Additional Deputy Commissioner (ADC) Nowshera, Qurat-ul-Aain Wazir, mobilized immediately. Wazir herself went door to door to inform citizens about the impending calamity.
Qurat ul Ain wazir additional DC of Nowshera is asking families to vacate their houses due to imminent threat of flood..#PakistanFloods pic.twitter.com/JOkLylIJYA
— Mohib Wazir ???????? (@NoyanWazir) August 26, 2022
During this process, Qurut-ul-Aain Wazir caught the attention of netizens; pictures and images of her supervising relief work emerged on social media. She addressed the people of Nowshera from the mosque, asking them to evacuate the homes with their families.
She walked in knee-deep water and reached out to the people in villages to move to a safer place. Netizens believe she spearheaded an examplary evacuation progress and later monitored the relief work of the flood victims. Wazir is hailed as the face of the civil bureaucracy of Pakistan and the symbol of women’s empowerment. Reports say she saved hundreds of families in the Qurut-ul-Ain Wazir personally visited the affected the accommodated them in the relief camps.
Thanks to Wazir’s proactive approach, thousands of citizens from Nowshera Kalan, Khat Kalay, Police Lines, Amaagarh, Gujjar Basti, Dhobi Ghaat, Labor Colony, Cantonment Board, Alam Garden, Usmania, Ajmiri, Baghbanabad, Marathi, and Lara Mina areas of the city were able to evacuate in time.
Netizens have lauded Qurat-ul-ain Wazir for leading the on-ground efforts. Overall, Nowshera’s administration managed to evacuate 230,000 people from flood-prone areas of the city. 55 relief camps have also been established in the city where 25,000 people are living.
Doctors have also been deployed to provide medical assistance to the people in the relief camps while the administration is also providing food and catering to the other basic needs of the citizens.
