ISLAMABAD, Jul 10 (APP):The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has addressed recent claims circulating on social media and certain sections of the news media regarding Twitter’s alleged blockage of access to the Government of Pakistan’s official account in Gilgit-Baltistan and the platform changing the region’s location to parts of India.

“PTA’s thorough investigation has revealed that no such problem exists, contrary to the information being circulated” said a news release.

In response to the claims, PTA conducted extensive on-ground testing to ascertain the veracity of the reports. The findings indicate that any sporadic issues encountered are limited to a very small number of iOS devices, affecting only a handful of users. These incidents are not of significant magnitude and do not reflect a widespread problem as suggested by the circulating news.

Twitter’s alleged blockage of the Government of Pakistan’s official account in Gilgit-Baltistan and the alteration of the region’s location to parts of India have been deemed baseless by the PTA.

The authority urges the public to exercise caution when sharing unverified information and to rely on official statements from reputable sources.

ISLAMABAD, Jul 10 (APP):The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) on Monday said that heavy rainfall in the catchment areas of River Chenab has resulted in flooding situation at its various control structures and it was running in “medium flood” in its reaches “Marala-Khanki-Qadirabad”.

According to daily FFC report, all other major rivers of Indus River System (IRS) were flowing under
“normal flow condition”.

Medium to high level flooding in river Ravi at Jassar (Ist Control Station in Pakistan on River Ravi) and medium level flooding in its other Nullahs during the next 24 hours.

Present combined live storage of the country’s major reservoirs (Tarbela, Mangla & Chashma) is 8.279 MAF Vs 2.817 MAF of last year at the same date against total value of 13.443 MAF.

According to Flood Forecasting Division (FFD), Lahore, deep trough of Westerly Wave earlier over Northern parts of Pakistan lies over Kashmir & adjoining areas and is moving away in eastwards direction. Weak seasonal low lies over Northern Balochistan.

Yesterday’s upper air cyclonic circulation (main source of streams of air at higher altitude) over
Western Rajasthan (India) has moved away northeastwards and has become insignificant for Pakistan.

Light to moderate moist currents from Bay of Bengal are penetrating into upper catchments of river Sutlej up to 5000 feet.

Widespread wind thunderstorm/ rain with heavy falls at isolated places and very heavy falls at one/two places are expected over the upper catchments of river Sutlej during the next 24 hours.

Scattered wind thunderstorm/ rain of light to moderate intensity is expected over Islamabad, Punjab (Rawalpindi & Sargodha Divisions), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Peshawar, Kohat, Bannu, D.I. Khan Divisions) including upper catchments of rivers Indus, Jhelum, Chenab & Ravi during the said period.

Isolated thunderstorm/ rain may also occur over Lahore, D.G Khan & Multan Divisions of Punjab,
Northeastern Balochistan and Southeast Sindh.