{"id":12043,"date":"2025-09-18T23:36:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=12043"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:36:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T23:36:31","slug":"aleem-khan-reviews-flood-damage-to-m-5-vows-support-for-saving-jalalpur-pirwala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=12043","title":{"rendered":"Aleem Khan reviews flood damage to M-5, vows support for saving Jalalpur Pirwala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has reviewed flood damage to Motorway M-5 during his visit to Jalalpur Pirwala, where he stressed that protecting the city and ensuring public safety remained the government\u2019s top priority, APP reports.<\/p>\n<p>Chairing a special meeting in Multan, the minister noted that floodwaters had spread up to 20 kilometres on both sides of the motorway. He said that although creating controlled breaches in M-5 was a difficult decision, safeguarding the lives and property of citizens takes precedence.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the National Highway Authority was working in tandem with the Punjab government to protect Jalalpur Pirwala and would fully support all decisions taken by the provincial government.<\/p>\n<p>He stressed the importance of building protective embankments and called upon the Irrigation Department and other institutions to fulfil their responsibilities to avert such disasters in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Minister for Communications Abdul Aleem Khan has reviewed flood damage to Motorway M-5 during his visit to Jalalpur Pirwala, where he stressed that protecting the city and ensuring public safety remained the government\u2019s top priority, APP reports. Chairing a special meeting in Multan, the minister noted that floodwaters had spread up to 20 kilometres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12043\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}