In pictures: Torrential rain floods Karachi, shatters records
More than a dozen people have died in this week's rain while residents have been forced to abandon their homes.
Torrential rain lashed Karachi on Thursday, causing widespread flooding, as downpours in August shattered 89-year-old records for the city, meteorological officials said.
Thursday marked the third day of heavy rain this week, during which more than a dozen people have died while residents have been forced to abandon their homes.
Provincial authorities were moving displaced families into school buildings as the military carried out rescue and relief operations.
“It has never rained so much in the month of August, according to our data,” the country’s chief meteorological officer, Sardar Sarfaraz, told Reuters, adding that the data went back to 1931.
Header image: People wade through a flooded residential area after heavy monsoon rains in Karachi on August 27, 2020. — AFP
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Aug 27, 2020 05:33pm
Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. What a grave, gigantic, gross and gruesome tragedy for the helpless and hapless land and people of Karachi, Islamic Republic of Pakistan? Where are the "movers and shakers" of Karachi, who have been ruling and claiming to make Karachi great again?
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Aug 27, 2020 05:54pm
In pictures:
Unplanned urban Basti damaged by monsoon flood;
Rain water contaminated with sewage;
Polluted rivers/nalahs and habitats;
Both man-made and natural hazards.
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Aug 27, 2020 06:08pm
Thanks PTI.
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Aug 27, 2020 06:08pm
Mr. Murad Shah needs to look after his biggest city in the province.
Or let the people of Karachi be allowed for refrendum and if they choose,they should be attached to the Capital.
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Aug 27, 2020 06:16pm
You need a better drainage system in Karachi
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Aug 27, 2020 06:40pm
@Jojo, Karachi is in Sindh Province and Sindh is being ruled by PPP for the last 10 years so PPP is the one who need to be blamed for this situation
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Aug 27, 2020 06:56pm
Well by now people should know that Sindh govt is not going to do anything, so I think it is time people should start thinking out of the box (People of interior Sindh does not care about Karachi or Hyderabad as they have to protect themselves, so they keep voting for the Waderas instead of people who care about Pak).
I think going forward Karachities should build/move houses etc 6 to 8 feet above ground and build bridges to go to the other side. This way the water will not affect them.
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Aug 27, 2020 06:57pm
PPP resign!!!! PPP failed.
Oh but bhutto is still "Zinda" and watching all this mayhem on his netflix.
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Aug 27, 2020 07:05pm
Now no need to pay for swimming pools in IKs naya pakistan
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Aug 27, 2020 07:09pm
Very sad. PPP regime has totally destroyed a cosmoplitan city.
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Aug 27, 2020 07:10pm
@Jojo, THANKS PPP,actually.Under 18th amandment karachi is PPP responsibility only.
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Aug 27, 2020 07:24pm
@Jojo, Who is ruling Sindh or is Karachi in KPK ?
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Aug 27, 2020 08:06pm
Not a shred of evidence to show Administration at work ,your graphics are self evident
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Aug 27, 2020 08:16pm
Poverty everywhere. Rich people don't suffer as much.
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Aug 27, 2020 08:19pm
This is the result of incompetent city planners of KDA, KMC and corrupt city administrators/politicians not utilizing the basics city planning rules and regulations. My heart bleeds for the citizen of my city. This is outrages. Give city back to its peoples.
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Aug 27, 2020 08:25pm
@Chrís Dăń, Just take a look at the residencies of PPP leaders in DHA. There is even a lonely African giraffe
in one house!
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Aug 27, 2020 08:45pm
@Jojo, You are out of touch with reality my friend. PPP is responsible for all this chaos in Karachi not PTI.
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Aug 27, 2020 08:53pm
@Click, no its only the responsibility of PPP government.
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Aug 27, 2020 08:54pm
Doors to Karachi shut in 1958 when power was usurped Capital later transferred to Islamabad, lots of hue & cries were noised by bureaucrats of Cap- Karachi, but were shut up, a lolly pop of Dacca given to Bengali bureaucrats as ‘legislative capital’but mom Karachi was ignored & betrayed. The revenue from Karachi keep on increasing todate, but mom is not cared. Mom feeding 95% Revenue to Sindh, and 70% to Center. Now mom is not well and needs attention of naughty careless sons. Mom still adores.
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Aug 27, 2020 08:57pm
PPP government are responsible for the current situation of the city.
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Aug 27, 2020 09:19pm
The very first picture shows graffiti on the wall "PPP Jiay Bhutto"
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Aug 27, 2020 09:37pm
It is pti
Sham for pti
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Aug 27, 2020 09:47pm
A major new sewerage system which is able to handle excess seasonal rain water is the only way to go. It would require a major expenditure but is essential to rescue Karachi from becoming international news for wrong reasons .
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Aug 27, 2020 10:22pm
Pakistan paying more attention to develop Gawader port than fixing Karachi.so leave it to chinese govt to fix your problems.
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Aug 27, 2020 10:24pm
@Jojo, Karachi is not ruled by the federal govt.
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Aug 27, 2020 11:17pm
@Jojo, Don’t blame the PTI.
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Aug 27, 2020 11:22pm
This is mayhem sponsored by everyone who's sitting in the power corridors enjoying every perk and let people die they never cared no matter nawaz zardari imran khan Altaf uncle etc. Karachi is a magnificent orphan
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Aug 27, 2020 11:25pm
Saw a similar picture of flooding in Karachi....in 1953!
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Aug 27, 2020 11:27pm
@Jojo, when you look at Bhuttos and Zardaris running Karachi for 40 years, do they look like they give two hoots about the poor?
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Aug 27, 2020 11:49pm
An important factor to consider:
Who has choked city's drainage veins near the sea by creating bottlenecks?
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Aug 27, 2020 11:55pm
Only Bilwal and ppp can bring real change, after coming into power
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Aug 28, 2020 12:27am
We must not blame PTI. In Sind, PPP was ruling for long time. It was their job to fix rain related issues. The money, provided by Federal government, pocketed by PPP leaders. PPP leaders have said when rain comes, water comes. When more rain comes, more water come.
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Aug 28, 2020 12:33am
Karachi must be separated from Sindh and given autonomy
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Aug 28, 2020 01:03am
But IK is still responsible as prime minister of entire country.
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Aug 28, 2020 01:49am
Welcome to the "change" and naya Pakistan...and please dont say PTI has got nothing to do with it.
They have nothing to do with punjab or kpk or baluchistan or azad kashmir..so confine your self to bani gala please
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Aug 28, 2020 02:08am
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) sucks!!!! Down with CM Murad Shah!
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Aug 28, 2020 02:16am
In a picture up there, the men are laughing relaxed, enjoying as if a picnic while the women sit forlorn, in somber thoughts. (Credits to the photographer for having caught the moment).
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Aug 28, 2020 02:36am
@Jojo, No, no sir! It is the result of myopic thinking like yours. Lack of long term master planning, mismanagement, poor engineering design, and corruption over years and decades set the stage. The rains contributed only to the extent of exposing it all.
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Aug 28, 2020 02:50am
Bring back Mustafa Kamal as an administrator for 2 years. If he doesn't deliver / make a change then punish him/ jail him for life time.
I think he can fix it because he knows how the corrupt system works.
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Aug 28, 2020 03:05am
Excess rain caused the knee height water... it would vanish in few hours, so why are we creating the noise?
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Aug 28, 2020 03:14am
Is not that its raining more than when the drainage systems were built by British 140 years ago. It's that the city has been built up many folds more and there are not enough green spaces like when they were during British times to absorb the water and the water has no where to go.
Mumbai has the same issue but the govt is now fixing it on war footing. Karachi needs to do the same.
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Aug 28, 2020 03:44am
@Asad, no brother its PPP who is responsible for sindh incl. Of Karachi
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Aug 28, 2020 03:53am
@JD, Yes, fully endorse your views. Do not expect any thing from this corrupt govt.They[ the federal govt] needs some drastic action before it is too late.
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Aug 28, 2020 05:35am
worst condition of karachi to witness
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Aug 28, 2020 05:53am
PPP is solely responsible for this mess as they've been in power for 12 years in sindh ... shame on u Zardari ...
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Aug 28, 2020 06:01am
@Jojo, no thank you buddy
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Aug 28, 2020 06:03am
@Click, Karachi is under ppp, bet you are sleeping.
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Aug 28, 2020 06:44am
@Ga, This a sign of massive corruption and nepotism in which gate keeper and ordinary clerk became billionaire eating Karachi development funds for their own personal use . The land grab mafia grabbed every inch of empty land which suppose to be made for public parks and recreational facilities. So Karachi keep growing without any checks and balance. The story of a corrupt regime which has no empathy and no respect for those people's who a silent majority in Karachi .
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Aug 28, 2020 07:27am
It is horrifying. The almost continuous downpour has completely devastated Karachi the already ruined 'the city of lights' by the rulers ruling the city and the province of Sindh for the last twelve years. More than a dozen innocent people have died. Property worth billions has been damaged/destroyed. This needs complete overhaul. Legal action is needed and, I, as a lawyer, say, warranted against the provincial government leaders/officials.
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Aug 28, 2020 07:35am
No worries. CPEC will solve all the problem.
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Aug 28, 2020 07:38am
This pictures look like of some war zone. Pathetic state of affairs and still people concentrate on external issues. In the coming decade Pakistan will be the laggard in the South Asia on all Human Development Index.
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Aug 28, 2020 08:05am
Look Pak has so much clean water source even their politicians are asking more water from India. Preserve this water in a lake or a reservoir or a pond and then supply them for their citizens.
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Aug 28, 2020 08:50am
Gift from IK to Karachi. No actions only talks. and see the condition
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Aug 28, 2020 08:51am
@JD, National government controls fund and it's there responsibilities. Infra development is national policies
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Aug 28, 2020 09:51am
Sindh government and Karachi metropolitan corporation are responsible for destruction .(Texas)
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Aug 28, 2020 09:56am
So how many feet did it rain?
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Aug 28, 2020 10:13am
@Akhter, Who else: DHA
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Aug 28, 2020 03:11pm
Karachi can't be cleaned in months. This is our duty of all the citizens of this country where we live that how can we contribute to clean.
Lets help government to clean the cities by not throwing our own garbage infront of our own houses.
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Aug 28, 2020 04:53pm
It's not the rains that should be blamed ( as the media is trying to do ) ....its thirty plus years of bad governance, inept planning and loot an plunder of resources meant for the betterment of the people.
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