On Sunday, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said that he ordered helicopters to be sent to Swat to help the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The move came to put out the wildfires raging in five districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for more than 24 hours. In a tweet, the premier said that two choppers were being immediately flown to the area at the request of the NDMA.

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