{"id":500038,"date":"2025-08-31T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=500038"},"modified":"2025-08-31T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T20:00:08","slug":"around-600000-saved-through-evacuations-punjab-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/around-600000-saved-through-evacuations-punjab-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Around 600,000 saved through evacuations: Punjab CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Lahore<br \/>\nContinuing her briefing, the Punjab CM said provincial authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and animals from flooded areas, in what she described as the \u201cbiggest evacuation and rescue operation in our history\u201d.<br \/>\n\u201cWe are facing a situation we haven\u2019t faced in decades. There has been a continuous effect due to non-stop rainfall,\u201d CM Maryam said. \u201cOur neighbour, India, opened their spillways and all that water came into our rivers, overflowing them.\u201d<br \/>\nThe chief minister said the province has a five-tier plan, the first of which is evacuation.<br \/>\n\u201cAll commissioners and DCs performed timely evacuations; containing this level of flooding with all resources was not humanly possible,\u201d she outlined.<br \/>\n\u201cWe have evacuated and transported around 600,000 people in Punjab, who were moved from inundated areas. Around 450,000 animals have been evacuated as well.\u201d<br \/>\nThe CM added that timely evacuations need to be carried out in districts currently under threat from flooding, such as Jhang, Muzaffargarh, Multan and Okara.<br \/>\n\u201cTheir preparedness needs to be airtight and they need to be ready for rescue,\u201d CM Maryam said, referring to district authorities. \u201cAll districts must use barges to load large numbers of cattle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lahore Continuing her briefing, the Punjab CM said provincial authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and animals from flooded areas, in what she described as the \u201cbiggest evacuation and rescue operation in our history\u201d. \u201cWe are facing a situation we haven\u2019t faced in decades. There has been a continuous effect due to non-stop rainfall,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-500038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Around 600,000 saved through evacuations: Punjab CM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/around-600000-saved-through-evacuations-punjab-cm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Around 600,000 saved through evacuations: Punjab CM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lahore Continuing her briefing, the Punjab CM said provincial authorities evacuated hundreds of thousands of people and animals from flooded areas, in what she described as the \u201cbiggest evacuation and rescue operation in our history\u201d. \u201cWe are facing a situation we haven\u2019t faced in decades. 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