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Floods: the blessed curse?

For most of its existence, humankind has tried to make sense of, cursed, battled, and at times even invoked natural calamities over which it had little control. This unpredictability and uncontrollability stemmed mainly from the...

Besides the climate change

Once again, monsoon rains have inundated vast stretches of Pakistan. Villages lie submerged, farmland ruined and families displaced. Such calamities are often described as “acts of God.” However, evidence increasingly shows ...

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A roadmap for flood management

Floods are not new to Pakistan. Since the catastrophic deluge of 2010 that inundated a fifth of the nation to the record monsoon flood of 2022 that displaced 33 million people, the country has witnessed time and again how rising...

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Reporting on floods

IN reporting on floods, four terms have been used constantly. They have traditional planning-related meanings, which can no longer be applied to them because of the phenomenon of climate change. These are: ‘master plan’, ‘...

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The waters rise & the lessons sink

KARACHI When the rains came this year, the fields in southern Punjab turned into shallow lakes overnight. Families marked the rising water on their walls, livestock was shifted to rooftops, and crops that had taken months of lab...

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Sialkot, Narowal and Jhang worst-hit by floods

LAHORE: As rescue and relief operations get underway, Sialkot, Narowal and Jhang have emerged as the three worst flood-affected districts across Punjab so far, according to a Punjab’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority (...

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