Khawaja Zaheer Ahmed - PDMA

observations with respect to officials’ subject matter of inquiry of
Punjab Judicial Commission.
h. The then Secretary Irrigation, Sindh and the then Chief Engineer
Guddu were well aware of the poor state of Tori Bund long before
the 2010 Flood; they had adequate time and to attend to that work
but failed to move in time.
i. The then Chief Engineer Guddu, by his own admission, and his
immediate superior, the Secretary Irrigation, had failed to anticipate
the expected level of flood waters at Guddu Barrage that inundated
Sindh’s three major districts besides Balochistan’s Jaffarabad
district.
j. Both Chief Engineer Guddu and the then Secretary Irrigation
consciously and deliberately, tried to attribute disaster due to
inadequate maintenance and funding constraints during yester-
years, besides justifying former’s absence from the Tori Bund
breach site at the critical time for reasons of heavy rainfall that
never was, and the claim that that made vehicular tour of the bund
impossible. Especially in view of his own PC-I of 4 th February 2010
and Planning Commission’s consensus document that rebut the
factum of over-topping.
k. The SEs and XENs incharge of the breached bunds in Guddu and
Kortri command areas are likewise responsible.
l. The 2010 Flood in Sindh was unprecedented to the extent of
duration of the peak flows though the discharges were lower than
the 1976 Flood.
m. The pre and post Flood 2010 IRC proceedings contradicted in
material terms Mr. Junejo’s contention, that most bunds other than
those directly raised in the subject matter of petitions were
maintained at reasonable level of repair.
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