• Standing crops submerged • 175 relief camps set up • 480 villages affected so far BAHAWALPUR/LAHORE: Panic gripped Bahawalpur and adjacent areas as a number of zamindara (private) protective dykes could not withstand the strong Sutlej water currents that inundated three main villages on the outskirts of town. Sunday’s peak discharge in Sutlej at Empress bridge was 130,000 cusecs which flooded settlements of Weaslan, … Continue reading Panic in Bahawalpur as Sutlej breaches dykes