Disaster in Karachi due to monsoon rains
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After all you are ruling Karachi for the past 30 years and yet you hold other People Responsible for it,But wait MQM was too busy in getting in and out of Govts not to forget packing bodies in Bhorees....
Can you count 30 years ruling tenure of MQM..????
The fact remains, MQM has experience in both running and destroying Karachi. However, the progress they made in Karachi is unparalleled throughout political rule. The most damage to Karachi's businesses and economy infact has not been done by MQM. But by PPPP and JI whenever they do their strikes and burn down places.
Even today, the silverspooned of NA-250 cant get crap done unless they use their fauji sources. Eventually people in Azizabad had to run to the MQM workers to get problems fixed.
Karachi ke Problems theek karna tu MQM ko ata hai.
Concert tu school ki committee bhi arrange karwa leti hain.
This problem has little to do with logic, it has to do with reactionary defensiveness. The same way children argue by repeating a thing without actually understanding the matter.
Even today, the silverspooned of NA-250 cant get crap done unless they use their fauji sources. Eventually people in Azizabad had to run to the MQM workers to get problems fixed.
Karachi ke Problems theek karna tu MQM ko ata hai.
Concert tu school ki committee bhi arrange karwa leti hain.
This problem has little to do with logic, it has to do with reactionary defensiveness. The same way children argue by repeating a thing without actually understanding the matter.
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Karachi, Hyderabad, Larkana fear flooding | Business Recorder
The met office on Saturday warned that torrential rain is expected to trigger flooding in Karachi, Hyderabad and Larkana in the next 24-36 hours. The first torrential thunder-shower spell of monsoon on Saturday morning flooded the city's all roads and streets and left the fragile sewerage system largely collapsed. However the rain turned the weather pleasant.
The heavy downpour spell took aback the citizens who came out of homes without preparations to deal with the wet weather. Many stranded as vehicular traffic chaos prolonged for quite a while in the wake of flooded roads. Civic administration remained out of sight to help pump out the accumulation rainwater.
Cars, auto rickshaws and motorbikes sank into knee-deep accumulated rainwater. Citizens themselves step up to flush out the rainwater from roads and streets to make a smooth passage for transport. "Due to heavy falls flash flood warning in the hill ******** of Balochistan and urban flooding warning in Larkana, Karachi and Hyderabad divisions during next 24-36 hours," the office warns.
"Seasonal low lies over west Balochistan and adjoining areas. Monsoon currents from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal are penetrating into most parts of the country," says the office weather summary. It forecast widespread rain-thundershower for Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, South Punjab, Kashmir and its adjoining hilly areas in the next 24 hours.
It says isolated rain-thunderstorm is likely to hit Gilgit-Baltistan and heavy falls are expected in Upper and South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Lower Sindh and Northeast Balochistan during the period. The chief amount of rain the office recorded in the last 24 hours include: Bannu 82 mm, Larkana 56 mm, Lahore (Airport ) 55 mm, Cherat, Islamabad (Z/P) 47 mm each, Jacobabad 43 mm, Rawalpindi 41 mm, Malamjabba 40 mm, Islamabad (Golra), Islamabad (Bokra) 37 mm each. Kalat 36 mm, Mandibahaudin 34 mm, Lahore (PBO) 32 mm, Padidan 31 mm, Saidu Sharif 26 mm, Mirpurkhas 25 mm, Sibbi 23 mm, Kakul 21 mm, Garhi Dupatta 20 mm, Mangla, Sialkot 19 mm, Khuzdar, Chhor mm, Sukkur 16 mm, Dadu, Murree 15 mm, Shorkot 14 mm, Noorpur Thal, Gujrat, Jhelum, Mithi 12 mm each, Skardu 11 mm, Rohri, Balakot, Dir, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar 10 mm each.
Rain coupled with thunderstorm is likely to hit scattered places with a few moderate to heavy falls in Sibi, Nasirabad, and Kallat divisions and at isolated places Zhob, Makran, Sukkur, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad and Karachi divisions, at one or two places in Quetta divisions in the next 24 hours. Weather in Karachi is expected to remain cloudy with chances of rain coupled with thundershower with temperature ranging between 26 degree centigrade and 28 degree centigrade in next 24 hours.
Peshawar is likely to receive more rain as forecast suggest that the city will remain cloudy with chances of rain-thundershower with temperature ranging between 24 degree centigrade and 26 degree centigrade. Weather in Lahore is likely to remain hot, humid and partly cloudy and in Islamabad partly cloudy, the office says.
The met office on Saturday warned that torrential rain is expected to trigger flooding in Karachi, Hyderabad and Larkana in the next 24-36 hours. The first torrential thunder-shower spell of monsoon on Saturday morning flooded the city's all roads and streets and left the fragile sewerage system largely collapsed. However the rain turned the weather pleasant.
The heavy downpour spell took aback the citizens who came out of homes without preparations to deal with the wet weather. Many stranded as vehicular traffic chaos prolonged for quite a while in the wake of flooded roads. Civic administration remained out of sight to help pump out the accumulation rainwater.
Cars, auto rickshaws and motorbikes sank into knee-deep accumulated rainwater. Citizens themselves step up to flush out the rainwater from roads and streets to make a smooth passage for transport. "Due to heavy falls flash flood warning in the hill ******** of Balochistan and urban flooding warning in Larkana, Karachi and Hyderabad divisions during next 24-36 hours," the office warns.
"Seasonal low lies over west Balochistan and adjoining areas. Monsoon currents from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal are penetrating into most parts of the country," says the office weather summary. It forecast widespread rain-thundershower for Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, South Punjab, Kashmir and its adjoining hilly areas in the next 24 hours.
It says isolated rain-thunderstorm is likely to hit Gilgit-Baltistan and heavy falls are expected in Upper and South Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Lower Sindh and Northeast Balochistan during the period. The chief amount of rain the office recorded in the last 24 hours include: Bannu 82 mm, Larkana 56 mm, Lahore (Airport ) 55 mm, Cherat, Islamabad (Z/P) 47 mm each, Jacobabad 43 mm, Rawalpindi 41 mm, Malamjabba 40 mm, Islamabad (Golra), Islamabad (Bokra) 37 mm each. Kalat 36 mm, Mandibahaudin 34 mm, Lahore (PBO) 32 mm, Padidan 31 mm, Saidu Sharif 26 mm, Mirpurkhas 25 mm, Sibbi 23 mm, Kakul 21 mm, Garhi Dupatta 20 mm, Mangla, Sialkot 19 mm, Khuzdar, Chhor mm, Sukkur 16 mm, Dadu, Murree 15 mm, Shorkot 14 mm, Noorpur Thal, Gujrat, Jhelum, Mithi 12 mm each, Skardu 11 mm, Rohri, Balakot, Dir, Muzaffarabad, Peshawar 10 mm each.
Rain coupled with thunderstorm is likely to hit scattered places with a few moderate to heavy falls in Sibi, Nasirabad, and Kallat divisions and at isolated places Zhob, Makran, Sukkur, Larkana, Mirpurkhas, Hyderabad and Karachi divisions, at one or two places in Quetta divisions in the next 24 hours. Weather in Karachi is expected to remain cloudy with chances of rain coupled with thundershower with temperature ranging between 26 degree centigrade and 28 degree centigrade in next 24 hours.
Peshawar is likely to receive more rain as forecast suggest that the city will remain cloudy with chances of rain-thundershower with temperature ranging between 24 degree centigrade and 26 degree centigrade. Weather in Lahore is likely to remain hot, humid and partly cloudy and in Islamabad partly cloudy, the office says.
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Monsoon 2013: Rain calamity strikes – The Express Tribune
QUETTA / PESHAWAR / KARACHI: Incessant rainfall wreaked havoc across the country on Saturday, triggering flash floods up north, damaging infrastructure, submerging villages and inundating cities and towns. In all, at least 51 people were killed and many more injured, while the damage to properties was seen as colossal.
Life in Karachi, the teeming metropolis of over 16 million, came to a grinding halt as it received the first downpour of the current monsoon. At least 16 people – among them eight children – died in rain-related incidents as provincial authorities called in army troops to help drain out rainwater from different neighbourhoods. Most of the fatalities were caused by electrocution and drowning.
The rain caused dozens of feeders of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) to trip, which resulted in power outages in almost half of the city. As most drains were clogged, rainwater and sewage flooded the busiest arteries and thoroughfares of the city, causing gridlocks at different places. Several cars and mini-buses also broke down in the middle of the roads adding to the traffic mess.
Angered by the mismanagement of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, the Sindh government sacked its administrator Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi and Municipal Services chief Masood Alam.
Although the posh and residential neighbourhoods were no exception, the worst-hit were the slums and villages on the edge of the city.
Around 250 houses of Babu Basti and Bhund Goth were partially damaged after the Thado River broke its banks in Malir area. Most residents fled their homes to seek shelter in a state-run school in nearby Soomar Kandi village.
Similarly, over a dozen houses were damaged in Badai Jokhio village while the situation in another six villages near the Sukkan River is also critical. Latt Basti and Ali Muhammad Jatt Goth were also inundated when the nearby drain overflowed.
“Army troops have started draining out the rainwater,” a military spokesperson told The Express Tribune. “The troops have been draining water from Natha Khan Goth, Sharea Faisal, Airport and its surrounding areas,” he added.
Other major cities of Sindh, including Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur and Sanghar also received heavy rainfall. In some areas, irrigation canals overflowed and inundated villages. In all, three fatalities were reported from rural Sindh.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and its adjoining tribal regions, at least 19 people died as flash floods damaged properties and farmlands. Fatalities were reported in Chitral, Peshawar, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, FR Tank and tribal agencies of North Waziristan and Kurram.
As of now, Chitral is the worst-affected district where over 100 houses, three small power houses and eight small bridges have been swept away. Officials, however, say they haven’t been able to assess the damage in the remote areas of the district due to the difficult mountainous terrain.
In Tank district, the union councils of Warsponn, Pai and Gulam Imam were flooded where dozens of houses were damaged and farmlands affected. Local administrator Muhammad Ali Shah claimed that the floodwater was receding. In Peshawar, scores of houses were inundated when Budhni stream broke its banks, forcing people in the neighbourhood to move to safer places.
According to the Flood Control Cell, most of the rivers in the province are in normal or medium- level flood except the Kurram and Gambela rivers in Bannu district which are in high flood. Landslides triggered by heavy downpour blocked the strategic Karakoram Highway at three places, suspending traffic between Rawalpindi and Gilgit-Baltistan. “The traffic between G-B and Rawalpindi is suspended due to the blockage of the KKH,” said a spokesman for the Northern Areas Transport Corporation,” a
government-sponsored transport company.
Balochistan also bore the brunt of the devastating monsoon spell. At least eight people were reportedly killed and dozens of villages submerged, displacing hundreds of people in the province. Jhal Magsi is the worst-affected district where 25 villages have been virtually washed away, according to Khalid Baloch, the director general of the PDMA. Jhal Magsi is literally cut off from the rest of the province as the main highway has been flooded.
Naseerabad district received incessant rain for 15 hours. The ensuing flood devastated over half a million acres of farmlands. In the neighbouring Jaffarabad district, the whole town, including government offices, is under knee-deep water. Several villages have also been flooded.
Similarly, Sibi, Loralai and Lasbela districts have also been affected where scores of mud-houses have been swept away by flash floods.
Hill ******** unleashed by heavy rains swept through the impoverished south Punjab where at least five people were reportedly dead and 200,000 acres of farmlands ravaged by floodwater.
To deal with the calamity, the authorities have declared a state of emergency in the districts of Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur and Jampur. All officials on leave have been called back for duty. The office of the chief minister is monitoring the situation round-the-clock.
In DG Khan, the Ronghan, Raakhi Gaaj and Vahowa areas are the worst hit where more than 100 villages have been submerged, uprooting hundreds of villagers from their homes.
In Rajanpur, the house Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Sher Ali Gorhacni and the farmhouse of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani have also been inundated.
According to an official tally, 100,000 people have been affected by the ongoing flash floods. Some tourists are also reported to have been trapped in the tribal belt of Rajanpur.
QUETTA / PESHAWAR / KARACHI: Incessant rainfall wreaked havoc across the country on Saturday, triggering flash floods up north, damaging infrastructure, submerging villages and inundating cities and towns. In all, at least 51 people were killed and many more injured, while the damage to properties was seen as colossal.
Life in Karachi, the teeming metropolis of over 16 million, came to a grinding halt as it received the first downpour of the current monsoon. At least 16 people – among them eight children – died in rain-related incidents as provincial authorities called in army troops to help drain out rainwater from different neighbourhoods. Most of the fatalities were caused by electrocution and drowning.
The rain caused dozens of feeders of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) to trip, which resulted in power outages in almost half of the city. As most drains were clogged, rainwater and sewage flooded the busiest arteries and thoroughfares of the city, causing gridlocks at different places. Several cars and mini-buses also broke down in the middle of the roads adding to the traffic mess.
Angered by the mismanagement of the Karachi Metropolitan Corporation, the Sindh government sacked its administrator Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi and Municipal Services chief Masood Alam.
Although the posh and residential neighbourhoods were no exception, the worst-hit were the slums and villages on the edge of the city.
Around 250 houses of Babu Basti and Bhund Goth were partially damaged after the Thado River broke its banks in Malir area. Most residents fled their homes to seek shelter in a state-run school in nearby Soomar Kandi village.
Similarly, over a dozen houses were damaged in Badai Jokhio village while the situation in another six villages near the Sukkan River is also critical. Latt Basti and Ali Muhammad Jatt Goth were also inundated when the nearby drain overflowed.
“Army troops have started draining out the rainwater,” a military spokesperson told The Express Tribune. “The troops have been draining water from Natha Khan Goth, Sharea Faisal, Airport and its surrounding areas,” he added.
Other major cities of Sindh, including Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Sukkur and Sanghar also received heavy rainfall. In some areas, irrigation canals overflowed and inundated villages. In all, three fatalities were reported from rural Sindh.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and its adjoining tribal regions, at least 19 people died as flash floods damaged properties and farmlands. Fatalities were reported in Chitral, Peshawar, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, FR Tank and tribal agencies of North Waziristan and Kurram.
As of now, Chitral is the worst-affected district where over 100 houses, three small power houses and eight small bridges have been swept away. Officials, however, say they haven’t been able to assess the damage in the remote areas of the district due to the difficult mountainous terrain.
In Tank district, the union councils of Warsponn, Pai and Gulam Imam were flooded where dozens of houses were damaged and farmlands affected. Local administrator Muhammad Ali Shah claimed that the floodwater was receding. In Peshawar, scores of houses were inundated when Budhni stream broke its banks, forcing people in the neighbourhood to move to safer places.
According to the Flood Control Cell, most of the rivers in the province are in normal or medium- level flood except the Kurram and Gambela rivers in Bannu district which are in high flood. Landslides triggered by heavy downpour blocked the strategic Karakoram Highway at three places, suspending traffic between Rawalpindi and Gilgit-Baltistan. “The traffic between G-B and Rawalpindi is suspended due to the blockage of the KKH,” said a spokesman for the Northern Areas Transport Corporation,” a
government-sponsored transport company.
Balochistan also bore the brunt of the devastating monsoon spell. At least eight people were reportedly killed and dozens of villages submerged, displacing hundreds of people in the province. Jhal Magsi is the worst-affected district where 25 villages have been virtually washed away, according to Khalid Baloch, the director general of the PDMA. Jhal Magsi is literally cut off from the rest of the province as the main highway has been flooded.
Naseerabad district received incessant rain for 15 hours. The ensuing flood devastated over half a million acres of farmlands. In the neighbouring Jaffarabad district, the whole town, including government offices, is under knee-deep water. Several villages have also been flooded.
Similarly, Sibi, Loralai and Lasbela districts have also been affected where scores of mud-houses have been swept away by flash floods.
Hill ******** unleashed by heavy rains swept through the impoverished south Punjab where at least five people were reportedly dead and 200,000 acres of farmlands ravaged by floodwater.
To deal with the calamity, the authorities have declared a state of emergency in the districts of Dera Ghazi Khan, Rajanpur and Jampur. All officials on leave have been called back for duty. The office of the chief minister is monitoring the situation round-the-clock.
In DG Khan, the Ronghan, Raakhi Gaaj and Vahowa areas are the worst hit where more than 100 villages have been submerged, uprooting hundreds of villagers from their homes.
In Rajanpur, the house Punjab Assembly Deputy Speaker Sher Ali Gorhacni and the farmhouse of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani have also been inundated.
According to an official tally, 100,000 people have been affected by the ongoing flash floods. Some tourists are also reported to have been trapped in the tribal belt of Rajanpur.
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Kuch bhi ho jai inn koo Sharaam nahee aani!!
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More rains expected in Balochistan, Sindh | PAKISTAN - geo.tv
KARACHI: The meteorological department has predicted more rains for Sindh and Balochistan during the next 24 hours.
The Met department has extended its pervious advisory for flash flooding in Balochistan for another 12 hours and states that widespread heavy downpours in the province would generate more flash flooding in the local rivers, streams and rain drains, particularly in Naseerabad, Kalat and Makran divisions.
The advisory also states that due to heavy rains the possibility of urban flooding in Larkana, Hyderabad and Karachi divisions cannot be ruled out during next 24-36 hours.
At least ten people were killed in Karachi from electrocution and other rain related incidents. Rainwater filled the streets and roads of many areas including Old City Area, Defence, II Chundrigar Road, Nazimabad, Steel Town, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Shahra-e-Faisal, Landhi and the areas adjoining University Road and Airport Road.
In Balochistan, residents of areas next to drains have been directed to vacate their homes due to a fear of flooding. Torrential rains in northern parts of the country have triggered flash floods in rivers and drains, washing away hundreds of houses and killing dozens of people.
KARACHI: The meteorological department has predicted more rains for Sindh and Balochistan during the next 24 hours.
The Met department has extended its pervious advisory for flash flooding in Balochistan for another 12 hours and states that widespread heavy downpours in the province would generate more flash flooding in the local rivers, streams and rain drains, particularly in Naseerabad, Kalat and Makran divisions.
The advisory also states that due to heavy rains the possibility of urban flooding in Larkana, Hyderabad and Karachi divisions cannot be ruled out during next 24-36 hours.
At least ten people were killed in Karachi from electrocution and other rain related incidents. Rainwater filled the streets and roads of many areas including Old City Area, Defence, II Chundrigar Road, Nazimabad, Steel Town, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Shahra-e-Faisal, Landhi and the areas adjoining University Road and Airport Road.
In Balochistan, residents of areas next to drains have been directed to vacate their homes due to a fear of flooding. Torrential rains in northern parts of the country have triggered flash floods in rivers and drains, washing away hundreds of houses and killing dozens of people.
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Sir jee MQM nay bhi bari hartalain ki hain...and they do a strike on gunpoint.
But don't you agree that doing sanitary work isn't the job of an MNA or MPA??? It just isn't his job to go around and fix sewerage and water problems and buy transformers. That is why a local body government system is needed (in a proper form, not flimsy one).
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floods happened then too!!
& apparently all the claims of WORLD'S BEST DRAINAGE SYSTEM put in place are exposed! clearly someone got kick backs in "installing" drainage system that doesn't work!
Local government has nothing to do with floods they happened then they happen now. question is how quick will they try to fix the problem. NO MORE FAKE MONEY SPENT ON FAKE DRAINGE SYSTEM that doesn't work when needed!
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