Islamabad, 1st September: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa reached Karachi on a two-day-long visit. According to reports from ISPR, on arrival at Karachi, COAS was flown over the city for aerial reconnaissance of the ground impact of urban flooding in Karachi. Later, COAS visited Karachi Corps Headquarters. COAS was briefed about the worst urban flooding in the recent history of Karachi and the Army’s support to civil administration across Sindh and particularly Karachi. Pak Army and Navy working side by side in Karachi COAS was apprised that unprecedented rains combined with decades of urban congestion, unplanned population settlement as well as infrastructural issues compounded the problem. COAS said that no city in Pakistan can cope with a natural calamity of this scale. Our issue is not the non-availability of resources but setting priorities right. COAS said that the plans being made by the federal and provincial governments will have the Army’s all-out support as having future repercussions on the economic security of the country. Relief and rescue efforts continue in flood hit areas of Karachi COAS also said that this natural calamity provided an opportunity to set the priority for the management of megacities across Pakistan … Continue reading COAS Bajwa on a 2-day-long visit to Karachi