*KARACHI – Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa reachedKarachi on a two-day visit on Tuesday, said a press release issued by theISPR.*
On arrival at Karachi, COAS was flown over the city for aerialreconnaissance of the ground impact of urban flooding in Karachi. Later,COAS visited Karachi Corps Headquarters.
The COAS was briefed about worst urban flooding in the recent history ofKarachi and Army’s support to the civil administration across Sindh andparticularly Karachi.
He was apprised that unprecedented rains combined with decades of urbancongestion, unplanned population settlement as well as infrastructuralissues compounded the problem.
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COAS Qamar Bajwa said that no city in Pakistan can cope with a naturalcalamity of this scale. “Our issue is not non availability of resources butsetting priorities right.”
He said that the plans being made by the federal and provincial governmentswill have Army’s all out support as having future repercussions on economicsecurity of the country. “This natural calamity provided an opportunity toset the priority for management of mega cities across Pakistan to avoidsuch disasters in future,” he said.
