Pakistan, July 19 -- Pakistan is once again in the headlines for all the wrong reasons: relentless rains, surging rivers, submerged streets and staggering human loss. As I write this, Islamabad and vast swathes of Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are under threat from yet another round of devastating floods that have already claimed well over a hundred lives in barely three weeks: half of them innocent children who should have been playing in monsoon puddles, not drowning in them. The scenes from Rawalpindi, Lahore, Swat and Gilgit-Baltistan are painfully familiar: families stranded on rooftops, rescue workers hauling rafts through urban rivers, mothers waving shawls at helicopters, praying for relief that never comes soon enough. Every year...