KP residents ecstatic as rains break dry spell
peshawar — Breaking a dry spell which lasted for nearly three months, the rains continued to lash parts of Khyber Pakthunkhwa (KP) and Peshawar city with an intermittent intervals since Tuesday, making weather cold and chilly.
Moderate to heavy downpours have been reported from Nowshera, Charsadda, Charat, Swabi, Mardan, Lower Dir, Swat, Malam Jabba, Abbottabad, Manshera, Bannu, Kohat, Kalam, Dir and adjoining areas that has turned the weather extremely chilly, forcing people to wear warm clothes.
Peshawar has received 60 millimetre of rain, according to the Met office. Light to moderate rain also lashed Dir which received 40 millimetre of rain whereas Parachinar and Saidu Sharif also received light
rain is a great blessing of allah almighty for people as it would help control seasonal infections like cough, chest, flue and other environmental related diseases besides helping to achieve pumper wheat crops this season Mishal Khan, a farmer in Nowshera
showers. “Rain is a great blessing of Allah Almighty for people as it would help control seasonal infections like cough, chest, flue and other environmentally related diseases besides helping to achieve pumper wheat crops this season,” Mishal Khan, a farmer and resident of Nowshera said.
“I was waiting for the rain for cultivation of wheat in my arid lands and all the farmers in KP are happy as the rain has ended the long dry spell,” he added.
Cultivation of wheat in arid areas in southern KP will start as soon as the rain spell stops.
Doctors, meanwhile, have termed the rainfall extremely beneficial for controlling seasonal diseases and smog which has wreaked havoc in parts of KP and Punjab.
“Rain is very important to control smog and season infections like cough and chest related diseases especially in children and these showers would certainly help in controlling these ailments,” chest specialist Dr Sabz Ali Khan said.
Before the rain fall, he said cases of chest, flue, cough and others seasonal infections had increased manifold and hospitals were struggling to cope with the rush of patients suffering from different ailments.
The heavy downpour has forced people of Peshawar to bring out warm cloths to protect them from cold.
Used cloth shops in landa bazar (used clothes) witnessed an increased rush of buyers. Shopkeepers have also increased prices of woollies owing to chilly weather in the provincial capital.— APP