Karachi Monsoon; Turns the City into Disaster

Pakistan’s biggest city is Karachi, and it’s the most neglected one where the necessities are not given to the citizens, whether it’s transportation, roads and much more. There’s always a problematic situation that has been affecting life. Even these issues get doubled up when the monsoon started in the city.

Pakistan’s largest city has become a paralysed city where the roads, sewage and solid waste system are complete sabotage.

Being a Karachi girl, I witnessed this situation for many years. Unfortunately, with just one heavy rain city turns upside down, and if the rainy spell has stayed for three to four days. The roads are getting demolished, and it feels like you are driving a car on bumpy streets.

You readers must be thinking, Why? Because this city gets affected by the political fight between MQM and PPP. Both the political parties fought for city ownership but never worked sincerely for the country.

Well, well, well. Last year, Farhan Anwar, an urban planner and faculty member at Karachi’s Habib University, mentioned to Al Jazeera that “It is an overall governance system failure, and you can’t isolate a particular cause for it [because] we have, over the years, allowed the city to develop and grow without planning or regulation or a framework.”

Moving forward, people have felt unprotected during this sort of situation when the city is flooded just because of poor sewage systems and rainwater. Reasons are multiple; drainers holes, broken roads, electric shocks, the list goes on. Even the transporters have vanished from the streets, and the available ones have increased the rates.

We all are hoping for CHANGE in the country.

A pictorial overview from this year's Monsoon.