Quratul Ain Wazir: ADC Nowshera

The brave Additional Deputy Commissioner, Nowshera, Ms. Quratul Ain Wazir aka Miss Wazir, made headlines in the mainstream media due to her dedication and hard work during recent deadly floods in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Hailing from Tribal district of Waziristan, Quratul Ain Wazir, is known for her selfless, daring services even during her tenure in Peshawar as city magistrate sometimes back.

When recently monsoon rainfall-induced floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa destroyed everything in parts of the province including Nowshera, she stepped in to save hundreds of lives.

During the floods, a high red alert was issued for Nowshera ordering people to evacuate the city at the earliest as high-level flood from the Kabul River was set to hit Nowshera.

People were not ready to leave their houses and were at risk of drowning. At the time Qurut-ul-Aain Wazir addressed the people of Nowshera from the mosque, asking them to evacuate the homes with their families.

She walked in knee-deep water and reached out to the people in villages knocking on their doors and strictly directed them to move to a safer place. She spearheaded an exemplary evacuation progress and later monitored the relief work of the flood victims.

Her heroic dedication saved hundreds of people and administration was able to evacuate them in time from flood-hit areas of Nowshera district.