Pakistan Floods of 2010, flooding of the Indus River in Pakistan in late July and August 2010 that led to a humanitarian disaster considered to be one of the worst in Pakistan’s history. The floods, which affected approximately 20 million people, destro
In Australia, we have beensubjected to a barrage of ill-informed exaggerationsabout ourcountry’s traditional droughts, floods, and fires. Each weather event of modern life is attributed by the media to carbon dioxide-induced Climate Change. Buteven the IPCC(Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Chang...
In the 21st century, Pakistan has faced numerous challenges, including economic instability, security concerns due to terrorism and internal conflicts, and tensions with neighboring India. The country has also dealt with natural disasters, such as the 2005 earthquake and 2010 floods, which have furthe...
Kaiser Bengali, Former Adviser, Pakistan Ministry of Planning and Development: But there is a fair amount of manmade responsibility for these floods, and politics plays a big part. Fred de Sam Lazaro: Kaiser Bengali was a government adviser during the 2010 floods, Pakistan's worst until 2022....
U.S. drone strikes,floods of 2010, and religious tensions Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the political drama of 2008, there were also developments on theforeign relationsfront. That year theUnited Statesexpanded its campaign of targeted killings by remotely piloteddronesin Pakistan’s Federally...
Already suffering from slow economy, high unemployment and rising food prices even before the floods hit them, tens of millions of Pakistanis living on the edge will have to deal with further loss of homes and livelihoods in the disaster. Some of the worst hit areas have already seen all cro...
The Indus River laments its diminished state, once mighty and life-giving. Dried riverbeds, disappearing wildlife, and polluted groundwater depict its plight. Despite melting glaciers, floods are absent, replaced by drought and intrusion of the ocean. Humans, with their dams and barrages, are bl...
As the scope and scale of the disaster becomes apparent, the response from Pakistani government and the international community has been very slow and inadequate. Coming on the heels of continuing terrorist violence and a slow economy, the floods have further challenged even the greatest optimists ...
Official textbooks, policies or public discourse ignore the findings of scholars like Mubarik Ali, Ayesha Jalal and K.K. Aziz in Pakistan, and Romila Thapar, K.N. Panikkar and Sumit Sarkar in India whose work is based on solid research and facts rather than emotive myths. There is no offic...
Why the reservoir is in Pakistan’s interest. The late governor of the Punjab had advocated passionately for construction of the Kalabagh dam, an Indus River project in Mianwali, Punjab, that could have contained some of the devastation wrought by the 2010 floods, Pakistan’s worst. In 1960,...