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It has been said that the tragedy in Pakistan is repeated, not because of any fate, but also as a result of the measures taken by those who benefit from it. If there is a sector where the country has gained world-class skills, it is not a threat to climate or floods-it is a great art of converting disasters into a donor-financing carnival. Welcome to the parallel universe of Pakistan’s climate organizations, where every monsoon can be an opportunity, each tragedy increases a press release and every flood career.
By mid -September 2025, floods killed 831 people, displaced more than 1.8 million and affected 4.5 million people nationwide. In September, another rain magic, added to numbers.
If you expect accountability, you are not paying attention. Instead of experiencing tough questions, many NGO high brass can be seen on television talk shows, and lectures on the public on “climate flexibility” and “ecosystem -based solutions”, which can be prepared to sprinkle technical jargons so that the kitchen is not affected. Their skills are not in hydrophrology or in the lametology but in the buzzing management, where the correct dose of “reduction, adaptation and climate smart” is calculated to bring another round of international funding.
One such NGO, proudly calls itself a “champion” of climate policy in Pakistan, who is a defaulter of the Belinazir Income Support Program, double the status of a government contractor.
The original skills of some NGOs are not in climate modeling but in the management of picture opportunities with the Prime Minister. These psychologists and Charlelaton have completed the art of climate change. They flourish at the distance, presenting every problem as a catastrophe that can only be stopped by their NGOs – provided, of course, that donors release millions more. And still, when basic science is pressured. Their knowledge begins with “climate risk” and ends with “carbon neutrality”, between science is like a black hole in their resoments.
This is not accidental incompetence – it is ignorant by design. Here, the less you know, the better you can hide behind jirgons, foreign conferences and shining reports.
NGOs support projects that are never meant to resolve Pakistan’s climate crisis. They are designed to keep the circus alive. Each flood, drought and heat wave are seen as an opportunity to apply for the next grant. While the backward classes hurt, the climate elite are prosperous.
The so -called climate smart agriculture projects, which are only in donor brochures, are fake. Farmers have never seen the promised seeds. The communities have never seen the promised water system.
Even in the public sector, someone can come to low climate adaptation projects – water management, flood protection and forest harvesting – then endless “construction of capacity” which can contain foreign tours, training workshops and certificates. Sadly, despite a certificate submitted by government officials in water -related programs, there are no threats in the rivers of Pakistan that they have always been. They violate uncontrollable, backwardness and continue to displace the weaker people year by year.
The most profitable component of the flood response is purchase. From IT equipment to vehicles, from lab repair to “climate offices”, almost every project contains a list of climate disguise in each project. In one of its projects, the Ministry of Climate Change has allegedly approved the purchase of goods for 36 labs in Punjab and 8 labs in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Many so -called “climate awareness plans” are also present in donor brochures and they are very sarcastic. The farmers have never seen the promised seeds. The communities have never seen the promised water system. And the forests have never seen the promised trees. Yet paperwork is often flawed, it is reported that the diagnosis of the effective and the effect is shining. There is an abundance of ghost projects in Pakistan.
So, in 2025, when ordinary Pakistani uncertain roofs, climate non -governmental organizations are leaning on their TV slots and conferences. While floods displace millions, NGOs displace the logic with the jargon. When donor millions of people disappear into past plans, the poor are left with mud, discomfort and feeling that “climate flexibility” in Pakistan means flexibility for NGOs, not for people.
This is a cruel joke on a country where more than 45 % of the population lives in poverty. In a land where millions of people lack food, clean water and shelters, the non -governmental organizations of the elite have created a whole industry beyond “climate change”. They do not work to reduce or adapt to it, but rather take advantage of it. Each flood exposes their role, and yet, they are ready to start the next “flexible plan”.
It is time now that all the climate change of Pakistan’s climate change, the complete audit of the Ministry of Climate and the Planning Commission, not through their project reports but on the ground performance. The country has long been misled by its self -determined climate experts who develop on the gears, donor junkies and gaststones. The real champions of climate flexibility are not advisors to bureaucrats or five-star hotels in Islamabad-they are shepherds in remote villages.
Without dhoom dham, without donor financing, these men and women are installing solar panels, adopting battery systems, giving away from fuel generators and moving to green energy.
The climate crisis is no longer a completely natural disaster. It is an industrial product that is the most bidder, packaged and auctioned for the most bidder. No donor can save millions, no judicial decisions and any international agreement to save Pakistan from destruction until the racket is broken.
Dr. Akramul Haq, author and lawyer of the Supreme Court, is an affiliated teacher at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.
Anjar Irshad H. Abbasi, a water and climate expert, is the co -founder of energy Excellence centers in Nost and UET Peshawar.
