I cannot find words more than Shame.

Same corruption and same situation on either side of border

Too much concrete and asphalt without any planning, is flooding the streets because water has no where to go. Monsoons are nothing new. This is happening everywhere. Look at the streets of Lahore.

Same now in mumbai.. except the change in city name..

Just like any India City during heavy rains .

Big cities are unmanageable, full of ghettos, crimes even in western countries and this the reason people over there lives in suburbs, well planned satellite towns with all the infra. Only poor lives in cities and lower middle class who cannot afford the suburbia lifestyle. It is catching here in Pakistan lately. Though there are a number of large well manged cities like Tokyo, Paris but they are too expensive. Need to plan smaller satellite towns and suburbs for all income groups, with all the facilities. Also smaller second, third tier cities needed which have more commercial, educational, and industrial activity so as to stop the constant flow of people from those areas to big cities.

@Sowjanya I think Mumbai has better storm water drainage system as it rains a lot more than Karachi, but have no clear idea sitting here in Karachi. South Indian cities like Chennai seems to have a better rain water disposal system.

....Missing the flooded roads of Karachi :( In comparision, over here, even with a heavy downpour, water drains in a matter of minutes ;)

This is not all that bad but the cars on the road look ancient as compared to a similar scene in India.

Ordinary citizens and kids look like India in rains!!

What is this w21? Taxi/ truck / minibus?? Very decorated

@Sanjeev Check this one, the link below. Most of the pictures are of old city area, hence old buildings and cars too. http://tribune.com.pk/story/1156425/karachi-plunges-darkness-rain-pours/

@Sanjeev Few people take out brand new cars when it rains heavily when forecast earlier. Also today Saturday is weekend and offices, educational institutes remains closed, hence low traffic.

Love u KHI, after moonsoon it is as I remember you u in my teen. Atleast today people cannot say that KHI is lacking water.

@PANT , true.

looks like karachi is still in 1980's

Is this Mumbai or Karachi? I cant tell the difference :)

@raghu Even 1880s were a lot better!

I thought Mustafa Kamal did something something, sometime ago regarding the drainage, guess no eh !!!

@N.Sid all sounds good and fair. Do you know karachi and Chicago are sister cities. Meaning they can share projects and knowledge of city planning etc. It's the corruption and lack of good willed people to do the job in pakistan that is the problem. Chicago is one of the greatest cities where million commute to city on any given day for all sort of stuff, keeping the place vibrant and rich.

I hope that new CM will do something good for the citizen to avoid such problems...

@N.Sid I lived Chennai, it has the worsest(Very worst!) drainage system or has no drainage system at all!

Shame on us

I would also partially blame citizens for all this mess. 1) polythene use in everything and improper disposal has chocked all drains 2) lack of sense in city dwellers to leave/create some water absorbing surfaces on ground 3) lack of civility to dispose what and where

I do not find anything wrong in this. During heavy rains water logging is obvious. One should enjoy the rain instead of complaint. Nature has given us a lot of events for enjoy and everything should be taken in a positive way and try to be stay blessed with nature.

It has hardly rained and look at the condition of Karachi. Some areas are fine but in many of the slum areas the condition is very bad. Sewerage water entering the houses, roads are destroyed (because of bad quality) and lot of diseases because of stagnant sewerage water. Rain is blessing for any city but the whole city has been destroyed. Karachi has been made into a major dump yard by indifferent attitude of local peoples and lack of attention from local governing bodies.

@Thashay In the winter of 1978-79 there was a massive snow storm and major streets in Chicago choked with 6 feet high piles of snow for 3 weeks or longer. The mayor was voted out of office in a few months.Pakistani brothers and sisters VOTE!!

@Citizen It is easy to blame the govt. What about the attitude of the people. It is same on either side of the border. Indifference. What is the use of claiming that the subcontinent was home to one of the oldest civilizations. Sounds great but in reality we are inferior to the west in many ways accept that.

@Meow Minibus, decorating them is all the rage here in PK.