
Pakistan’s sprawling Karachi ‘broken’ by monsoon floods
Record rains inundated Pakistan's largest city, paralysing city authorities as people were left to fend for themselves.by Asad Hashim & Aysha Imtiaz19 hours ago
For the city's urban poor, the situation has been worse [Aysha Imtiaz/Al Jazeera]
Karachi/Islamabad, Pakistan - For Shahzad Ahmed, there was no time to think.
"The windows broke and the door caved in, that's how intense the water pressure was," he said of the first night of torrential monsoon rain in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, last week.
"We didn't even try to take the water out of the house. I just tied my rickshaw [to a pole] as tightly as I could and my family and I [got on] the rooftop."
Ahmed, his wife and children spent more than 10 hours on that roof, in the pouring rain, as Karachi saw more t...