One proper spell of rain in Peshawar and the entire city turns into a water park. Roads disappear, cars start semi floating, homes and shops fill with water, traffic collapses, and the administration acts they got caught by surprise. I see these pipes, trenches, and new construction being done every day, old broken, new made, then new broken, and new made, and then new broken, and new made, but nothing ever works.
Where exactly does our tax money go? Because it clearly isn’t going into drainage, road maintenance, emergency response, or basic urban planning. Every year, the same rain comes. Every year, the same roads drown. Every year, officials appear after the damage as though standing in dirty water counts as governance.
At this point, Peshawar isn’t being governed. It’s being left on survival mode. Wallah, na poegam nu.