Whereas emphasizing the need to adopt proactive approach by taking preventions, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Lt. General (Retired) Nadeem Ahmed said, "it would be dangerous to use boats for rescue in high flood currents. "

Continuing overnight string of torrential rains and subsequent floods took a heavy toll of over 110 lives in the worst-hit northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province during the tough monsoon season in Pakistan.[Chinanew.com]

The residents know their areas better and should have evacuated ahead of floods, the multi-million dollar relief organization's chief told a private news channel Duniya in an interview on Thursday.

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NDMA which was established after the devastating October 2005 earthquake in the Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Malakand areas with handsome international donor funding, appeared to be helpless as local media surveyed the continuing plight of marooned masses.

Emergency has been declared in Dera Ismael Khan and other areas bordering Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces where rivers are in middle or high level floods due to continuing heavy downpour and melting snow up on mountains in the north of Pakistan.

Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has called Chief Minister Hoti offering condolences over the loss of life in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The premier also called the reserve Civil Defense Authority asking to play its due role in the relief work.

Meanwhile, Kohlu and Barkhan areas are still in floods which had left over 60 people dead and 30,000 homeless in floods caused by heavy rains a week ago. Six people have also been killed in rains in Azad Kashmir where Neelam and Jehlum rivers are in high floods.

In southern Sindh province, Indus river would experience high floods as all five major rivers in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces submerge with all their overflowing waters into Indus as it enters Sindh to drop down into Arabian Sea. Areas particularly near the banks of Indus have been ordered to evacuate.

Punjab province that is still struggling to flush the accumulated water out from the previous week rains also braces for more monsoon downpour, floods and accompanying complications, disaster and human misery without adequate preparations.