Monsoon over, rivers returning to normal: PDMA

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Punjab Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) Director General Irfan Ali Kathia has said that the monsoon has completely ended, adding that all the rivers in the area have returned to their normal states and the water level from Jasar to Sadhanai has returned to normal.

“There is no peak in Chenab from Marala to Pajanand,” the DG said in a press briefing, while adding that there was a slightly greater flow in the Sutlej river and the level of the Chenab river was reducing.

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