Quetta: The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has donated Rs 80 million for the calamity-hit people of Awaran district of Balochistan. Chief Minister KPK, Pervez Khatak handed over a cheque of Rs 80 mln to CM Balochistan, Dr Abdul Malik Baloch at CM Secretariat on Thursday.
Talking to media persons the CM KPK, expressed his sympathies with the bereaved families and reiterated that the people of KPK stood with the people of Balochistan in this catastrophe.” I amhere just because we donot want to leave alone our brethren in this critical juncture of hour,” the CM stressed. Senior Minister and PML-N leader Sardar Sanaullah Zehri, PkMPA minister Hamid Khan, Chief Secretary Balochistan Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad were also present on the occasion.
Meanwhile, it is reported that a mud island from the sea off Balochistan’s Gwadar port as a result of a powerful earthquake last month is now vanishing as predicted. The island named ‘EarthquakeIsland’, about 250 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake, has attracted global curiosity, but scientists had forecast that it would not last long and will disappear in couple of months, private news channel reported.
They said methane gas under the seafloor pushed up the big pile of mud. When it emerged near the port of Gwadar after a 7.7 magnitude earthquake, the island was about 70 feet high, 300 feet wide and 120 feet long. Fresh satellite images show the island sinking in the sea up to 10 feet, with a little sand around it. Samples collected by experts of the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) are being analyzed as more facts about the island are likely to be unveiled next month.
