KARACHI: The Metropolis, sans water drainage system, was still suffering from the urban flooding and outages caused by the so-called heavy rain, has been hit yet again by a new spell on Wed (20th August, 2025) at 3PM, raising the death toll to 20.
On 19th Aug, twelve people died in rain-related incidents here, including four members of a family who expired when walls of their Gulistan-e-Jauhar house collapsed; a 50-year-old man drowned in a Gurumandar nullah; an 8-year-old boy in Orangi got buried under falling debris; 2 men perished due to electrocution.
Although lots of people complained of outage, KE claimed that 1,285 out of 2,100 feeders continued to supply electricity. Since due to rampant corruption, the budget meant for ameliorating the living condition of citoyens, is usurped to purchase lucrative real estate abroad, even a moderate rain kills people, submerge the Metropolis, inundate arteries like Sharah-e-Faisal and II Chundrigar Road.
Massive traffic jams due to flooded roads and underpasses kept the tax payers on the roads for hours. Hundreds of commuters had to leave their vehicles on the roads when fuel exhausted. Thousands of citoyens stranded on the roads had to spend the night with their families in the vehicles. Moreover, flights’ schedule was also disrupted. Anticipating further downpour, CM Sindh has announced 20th August, as provincial holiday.
Since, due to the deluge, workers failed to reach their places of work, supply chain was affected and thus industries failed to produce goods. Commodities ready to be sent abroad remained stuck in the factories as neither labourers nor transport was available to carry the consignments to the port. Many traders lamented that rain water entered their shops and warehouses and had destroyed their wares
Taking to the Instagram ZAB Jr held: “Our Karachi is drowning, heavy rainfall and a lack of initiative to fix the city’s infrastructure. Contractors work and pocket money while the very geography of the city is built on river deltas and flood plains, places naturally designed to collect and most importantly drain water.”
Rainfall till 8PM (19th August, 2025):
177mm Gulshan-i-Hadeed;
158.5mm Airport Old Area;
153mm Jinnah Terminal;
149.6mm Nazimabad;
145.2mm Surjani Town;
140mm Keamari;
140.2mm Saadi Town;
134mm DHA Phase VII 134mm;
133mm University Road;
128mm PAF Base Faisal;
108.4mm North Karachi;
132.2mm Korangi;
98mm Gulshan-i-Maymar;
87mm PAF Masroor Base;
66.2mm Orangi Town;
4.8mm Bahria Town.
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