Great Debate: Malik lashes out at elites over deepening flood misery

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Federal Minister for Climate Change and Environmental Harmony, Mossadak Malik, has accused the country’s powerful elite of raising a hotel on the edge of the rivers and says his greed has turned the flood into deadly disasters.

He gave remarks during the Geo News’ New Pakistan program, “Unfortunately, it is that NOCS (no deployment. Nin Certificate) is also among us.”

Malik acknowledged that “Pakistan’s initial warning system is incomplete.”

He said the work started with a plan to install 300 systems in 2017, but when he took power, he was only 12 space.

He added that it is impossible to predict with complete accuracy of the weather, emphasizing that only forests can slow down the power of flood waters.

Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab told the debate that planting was not enough. They needed care to survive.

He said that encroachments on natural waterways are a main reason behind the city’s flood, adding: “Nature always claims to be again on its way.”

He also criticized the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), saying it had predicted the reduction of rain on August 19, but the contrary has occurred.

“In the last 90 years, we have never seen so much rain in August,” he said.

Water expert Dr Imran Ahmed said that better data predictions could improve.

He reminded that 27 sites in Karachi were identified for recharge wells, which can help absorb storm water into the ground.

Meteorological expert Ali Tauqeer Sheikh noted: “Pakistan is no longer facing rivers floods but also does not even face urban floods, yet the trees continue to think of just like wood.”

Water resource expert Mohammad Meher Ali Shah warned that the extreme weather events, which were rare, are now regularly taking place.

“Pakistan has already lost water equal to the storage of Tarbela and Mangla dams.

He warned that “we can’t stop global warming, but we have to make sure that people do not live permanently in high -risk areas.”

Professor Noshin Anwar, a professor of urban planning, said that profit -driven development has subjected the appropriate planning.

“Climate change is a challenge, but our mismanagement is a big problem,” he said.

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif has recently announced a nationwide crackdown to stop construction with rivers, rivers and other natural waterways, as the number of casualties has increased to 788 by weeks of floods by August 24.

Experts have been warning for many years that flood channels have been unbeaten on rivers, illegal logging, and construction structures, disrupts the delicate ecosystem, disrupts drainage and heavy rainfall and the resulting floods are more destructive.

Last month, authorities in Gilgit -Baltistan, with more than 13,000 glaciers, banned the construction of new hotels near the lakes in an attempt to restrict the damage.

Since June 26, the storm rains and floods have defeated large parts of the country, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has suffered the worst damage.

The province has reported 469 deaths. Punjab recorded 165, Sindh 54, Gilgit Baltistan 45, Balochistan 24, and Azad Kashmir 23. Islamabad has reported eight deaths.

The Pakistan Meteorological Department has warned that the magic of monsoon, which continues till September 10, can flood the same scale like the destruction of 2010.

At that time, he went under the entire districts, while in 2022, heavy summer rains with high -speed melting glaciers gave rise to a large -scale flash flood, which sank in about one -third of the country.

According to official estimates, more than 1,700 people lost their lives, and crossed the losses of $ 30 billion.

Pakistan has increased world greenhouse gases by less than 1 %. Nevertheless, it is sitting in countries that are the most climate change and the result.