Pareshaan ho gaya hoon: Karachi is losing the war to flies. Forget nuclear threat to India
Forget a war with India. Karachi in Pakistan is currently trying to win a different kind of war. Houseflies have invaded the city and making the life of people miserable.
- New Delhi
- August 29, 2019
- UPDATED: August 29, 2019 20:33 IST
Karachi is currently losing the war to houseflies Photo: Reuters
Pakistan is going bonkers about India as its officials are busy firing from their mouths threats of war. It just test-fired an old missile to flex its ballistic muscle.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has threatened to nuke the neighbour and the railways minister has given an estimate of when it will happen: October end or November first week. But it's August and Pakistan is busy battling flies, house flies. And it's losing the war.
Karachi, its business hub, is buzzing with flies and residents do not know how to get rid of them. It's the biggest and filthiest city of the creaking country with overflowing drains, complicated by rains and the slaughter festival of Eid-al-Adha has left a mess, with all that meat and blood in its streets.
We heard the following in the
videos on Pakistani TV channels and it definitely is a war-like situation, except that Pakistan is losing it to the flies, house flies.
A video report on ARY News tells us that the number of these flying and buzzing invaders is increasing every day. The video shows people sitting on the streets and eating while the houseflies around them make their life difficult.
Things in Pakistan have not been particularly greatearlier either, but they took a turn for the absolute worst after the country celebrated Eid and the blood-filled streets, along with clogged rainwater, worked as the perfect breeding ground for flies. What is worse, is that no steps have been taken to control the pest situation.
The excessive number of flies and mosquitos have led to the spread of many life-threatening diseases like dengue and Congo virus. The flies have even entered houses of people, making it difficult for them to conduct their simple day-to-day tasks such as eating.
"Pareshaan ho gaya hoon spray kar-kar ke," says a disappointed Karachi man in the video.
Earlier, where 40 vehicles used to be designated to spray mosquito repellent in a district, only 5 vehicles have been allotted this time around. Fuel problem is also being cited as one of the reasons behind the crisis.
People in Karachi are getting helpless and agitated. According to a Pakistani news website, one man even filed a petition on August 27, 2019, saying that theSindh government, Karachi mayor and the chairmenof all six districts are not taking any steps to clean the city.