RAJANPUR The flood affectees of Rajanpur are looking for the Governments help as there is acute shortage of food items, shelters and potable water in the calamity-hit region. Rajanpur district is sandwiched in between the Indus River on one side and the Sulaiman Range mountains on the other side, and this has created a difficult situation for the locals, as the landslides caused by the heavy rains have damaged the infrastructure in the district and now the flood is wreaking havoc there. Jampur and Mithan Kot areas of Rajanpur were under threat of floods and the Government had asked the citizens to evacuate the low-lying areas of the city as the floods have made shafts in the safety embankments and water has already entered the suburbs of the Jampur city. The officials of banks and government and private offices have been asked to shift to safer localities to save themselves. The highest floods in the history of Pakistan are passing through the district damaging the Kharif crops, livestock and human life in the region. Thousands acres of cultivated land have been destroyed both by the landslides and floodwater. The troubled people are waiting for the Governments support, as they are left without shelters, food and clean drinking water. The fear of outspread of diseases is also challenging flood affectees in the district. Army has been deployed to take the people out of katcha areas of the district where people are stuck in floodwaters and the Army has also set up a medical camp for the flood victims. Local population in the Omer Kot tehsil, Rojhan and Bangla Acha have been trying to secure the safety embankments on their own to safeguard fields and populated localities of the areas. Talking to TheNation, a local from Rojhan tehsil said that the MPA was trying to save his own fields and the civic body was working under his instructions, which had left them on the mercy of the river. The people of the affected areas are under the threat of food shortage and the lack of tents is forcing them to live under the open sky.