{"id":65778,"date":"2024-02-29T10:18:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sindh-govt-declares-rain-emergency-announces-half-day-for-karachi-offices-on-friday\/"},"modified":"2024-02-29T10:18:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T10:18:04","slug":"sindh-govt-declares-rain-emergency-announces-half-day-for-karachi-offices-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/sindh-govt-declares-rain-emergency-announces-half-day-for-karachi-offices-on-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Sindh govt declares rain emergency, announces half-day for Karachi offices on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday imposed a rain emergency in the province amid predictions of heavy rainfall over the weekend and declared tomorrow to be half-day for all government and public offices.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, the Sindh Pakistan Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) had issued<\/a> an urban flooding warning and directed the deputy commissioners and all officials concerned to take required measures.<\/p>\n

According to the advisory issued by the Met Department, rain\/thunderstorms with few heavy falls are expected in northern parts of the province from Feb 29 till March 2. Similar weather conditions are likely to prevail in the rest of the province from March 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cHeavy falls may generate urban flooding in low-lying areas. Fishermen of Balochistan are advised not to venture in deep sea till March 1 while those of Sindh are advised to remain careful during the forecast period,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Today, the Sindh chief minister chaired a meeting regarding the situation at the CM House. During the meeting, CM Murad decided to declare a rain emergency in the province and put local institutions, the administration and hospitals on high alert, a statement issued by his spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

The statement also said that Murad decided that tomorrow would be a \u201chalf-day\u201d at all public and private offices in Karachi and urged the people to not leave their houses unnecessarily tomorrow.<\/p>\n

He said that rainfall was expected in Karachi from 2pm tomorrow. \u201cAfter 2pm tomorrow, three to four spells of rainfall have been predicted in different areas of Karachi,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab also confirmed the same. In a post on X, he said: \u201cThough preparations have been made, as a matter of abundant precaution, it has been decided in meeting presided by CM that tomorrow will be a half day for offices in Karachi division from 2pm.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizens are requested to also avoid unnecessary movement to avoid any inconvenience,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the meeting chaired by the Sindh CM was informed by PDMA Director General Salman Shah that rainfall had been predicted in the northern areas of the province from tonight till March 2 (Saturday).<\/p>\n

He said that rainfall was expected in the central areas of the province from March 1 (tomorrow), adding that rains were expected in the province from today.<\/p>\n

\u201cRains are expected to begin in Karachi on Friday afternoon, with 13mm to 16mm expected in a 12-hour timespan,\u201d the official informed the meeting.<\/p>\n

Over the possibility of rainwater entering the province from the mountainous areas in Balochistan\u2019s Jhal Magsi and Khuzdar, CM Murad directed the Larkana commissioner to make the necessary arrangements in this regard.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the provincial irrigation department assured Murad that Manchhar Lake would be able to withstand the inflow of rainwater.<\/p>\n

The Karachi mayor acknowledged that there were drainage issues after last months\u2019 rainfall. However, he assured that these were being resolved, adding that the Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB) had 53 vehicles with suction machines available.<\/p>\n

PDMA\u2019s Shah also vowed to provide the necessary machinery to the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) for draining rainwater, noting that Karachi\u2019s main artery Sharea Faisal comes under water pressure during the rains.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah on Thursday imposed a rain emergency in the province amid predictions of heavy rainfall over the weekend and declared tomorrow to be half-day for all government and public offices. On Wednesday, the Sindh Pakistan Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) had issued an urban flooding warning and directed the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/_img\/social-default.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}