Published on, Aug. 26 -- August 26, 2025 12:56 AM

Feedback on last week's article titled "Watermarked Pakistan", coupled with the tragic loss of life and property in recent KPK floods, warranted a need to focus on the devastation thus caused in the past few decades or so, underlining the role of climate change in these floods. This further propelled me to give a thought regarding how and why we failed as people, and so did our successive governments. Readers may dismiss it from the outset, but to conclude, I have still given some thought to the possibility of regulating floods with joint efforts with India.

Flood after flood, we have faced an exponentially increasing loss of life and material. Every few years, the Indus River and its tr...