PMD warns of another spell of rains in city

The depression over Rajasthan, India, has intensified into a deep depression, prompting the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) to issue a high alert for Karachi and other parts of Sindh. The city is expected to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall on Monday and Tuesday, accompanied by strong winds, with a significant risk of urban flooding.

PMD, which initially issued an advisory on Sunday, upgraded it to a formal warning later in the day. According to the alert, widespread heavy showers are expected across Karachi and interior Sindh over the next two days. Meteorologists warned that low-lying areas could face severe flooding, while poorly constructed structures such as rooftops, boundary walls, electric poles, and mud houses may sustain damage.

Districts likely to be affected until September 11 include Tharparkar, Umerkot, Mirpurkhas, Sanghar, Khairpur, Shaheed Benazirabad, Dadu, Matiari, Tando Muhammad Khan, Tando Allahyar, Hyderabad, Thatta, Badin, Sujawal, and Jamshoro, where heavy rainfall with thunderstorms is forecast intermittently. Larkana may also experience widespread moderate to heavy rain during this period.

On Sunday, parts of Karachi's outskirts - including Super Highway, Scheme 33, Gulshan-e-Maymar, Bahria Town, Gulshan-e-Hadeed, and Kathore - received scattered moderate to heavy showers. In many areas, skies turned dark before the rainfall began, while most of the city experienced overcast conditions throughout the day.

Sindh Senior Minister and Provincial Minister for Information, Transport and Mass Transit, Sharjeel Inam Memon, said that the Sindh government stands with the flood-affected people and is providing them with all possible relief. On the instructions of the Chief Minister of Sindh, district administrations are actively working in the field to support the victims.

All cabinet members, designated focal persons, and members of the provincial and national assemblies are also present in the field and personally monitoring the relief measures.

Sharjeel said that 133,887 people have so far been shifted to safer places from 167 UCs in 15 districts of the province, while another 5,830 people were relocated in the last 24 hours. He added that 45,146 victims have been provided medical assistance at 158 fixed and mobile health camps set up by the Sindh govt, including 5,570 people treated in the last 24 hours alone.