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Inundated, Unremembered, and Abandoned

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  Thousands of people have perished or gone missing, and millions have been displaced in the FLOOD. Belt Saraiki   Don't annoy me! While Siraiki Waseeb's stepmother is sound asleep, her children are sitting outside in severely inundated areas while they wait for assistance from the government, which is currently out of reach.   Only a few metropolitan areas, like Taunsa, Dera Ghazi Khan, Jampur, and Rajanpur, are currently secure even though millions of people are impacted. Even these cities are in danger of severe flooding, and residents have been warned to leave them, resulting in sleepless nights.   In the abandoned Sairaiki belt, thousands of villages and small towns have disappeared, thousands of people have perished or gone missing, and millions have been displaced. The administration's callous response to a human tragedy of this proportion is nothing new. These places have previously gone through this, most recently in 2010, but as usual, there is no pol