NEW DELHI: Pakistan’s defence minister Khawaja Asif on Tuesday got here up with a ordinary strategy to take on floods within the nation’s northern portions via suggesting that folks retailer the floodwater and take it to their houses.Whilst chatting with an area information channel, Asif mentioned that extra water must be taken as a “type of blessing.”“Now this water, any individual must retailer it. The people who find themselves sitting blocking off the street must take it to their houses and retailer all this water there,” Asif mentioned.“They must put it someplace, in some container. This water, this water — we must give it the type of a blessing via storing it. For this, large dams must even be constructed, which might take 8–10 years to finish,” he added.Those remarks got here as monsoon rains proceed to reason serious flooding in Pakistan’s Punjab province, which is going through the largest flood in its historical past.Consistent with ARY Information, cited via ANI, flooding and rains have killed 33 other folks, hit 2,200 villages, and compelled over 700,000 citizens to evacuate in Punjab province.Punjab’s senior minister Maryam Aurangzeb mentioned at a press convention on Sunday: “That is the largest flood within the historical past of the Punjab. The flood has affected two million other folks. It’s the primary time that the 3 rivers — Sutlej, Chenab, and Ravi — have carried such top ranges of water.”Punjab, with about 150 million other folks, is a key farming house and Pakistan’s major wheat manufacturer. Floods in 2022 destroyed massive spaces of plants within the east and south, prompting Top Minister Shehbaz Sharif to warn of meals shortages.The Nationwide Climate Middle reported that Punjab won 26.5% extra monsoon rainfall between July 1 and August 27 when compared with the similar duration final 12 months.Pakistan’s crisis control authority mentioned that since June 26, rain-related incidents have killed 849 other folks and injured 1,130 around the nation.