I don’t speak about the never-ending sorrows and sufferings of the last year’s super flood victims in Sindh who are still leading lives of refugees and nomads in their own home province.
I speak about the ill-fated more than ten million people who have become the victim of rain-, bureaucrats- and technocrats-created disaster in twenty one districts of Sindh province. Much was heard about their rescue and relief efforts in various television talk shows a few weeks ago but nothing is being heard about their pitiable plight nowadays in any television show as nothing is being done to alleviate their miseries. People are dying. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and the rulers and other people who have a say and are doing nothing will have to pay a heavy price for this negligence and callousness.
The plight of victims reminds me the golden words of King Edwards who once said, “Two people can damage a society. First, those who do not know and talk and secondly, those who know and do not talk.” Is there anyone to reflect on this thought and advocate the plight of the rain victims so that they may be saved from the cruel clutches of premature death and destruction?
HASHIM ABRO
Islamabad
The monsoon flows in the five big tributaries of the Indus – Kabul, Chitral, Swat, Haro and Sohan contribute considerably to the rain caused floods in Sindh. Tarbela dam and even Bhasha dam, being upstream of these tributaries, cannot trap their flood waters. Only Kalabagh dam can do so. No matter how many dams Pakistan and India build on the Indus, heavy floods will keep coming to Sindh and the misery of the people detailed in this letter will keep repeating every year, perhaps on an incremental basis because climate change.
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