Floods roulette
Karachi was brought to a standstill and now there are fears that Rawalpindi is going to suffer likewise

With the Punjab chief minister deciding to direct one per cent of all budgets within development programmes towards environmentally-friendly activities the winds are at least blowing in the right direction. Also welcome is the report that Pakistan is to upgrade weather forecasting radars which currently can only provide forecasts one or two days in advance and a 3-5 day outlook at best. The Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) is to benefit from a soft loan of $135 million enabling the replacement of obsolete or dysfunctional radars with at least 14 new ones giving a national coverage of around 95 per cent. This is going to take five years to bring online, years in which extreme weather events are going to increase rather than decrease. It is for local administrations to discharge their duties rather more diligently than they have been as evidenced by a drowned Karachi.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 4th, 2017.
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