Peshawar Is Drowning in Its Own Shopping Bags —And the Monsoon Hasn’t Even Arrived Yet
PESHAWAR – Walk past any drain in Peshawar this week and you’ll see it: a black tangle of plastic bags, half-submerged, going nowhere. That’s the city’s drainage system now — not broken by age, but strangled by shopping bags nobody was supposed to be selling in the first place. The irony is hard to miss. […]
How Peshawar’s Canal System Became a Toxic Trap
PESHAWAR – In the colonial era, engineers designed Peshawar’s canal system as a scientific marvel. These waterways once provided the essential lifeblood for food security and communal health. Residents used the flowing water for drinking, bathing, and religious ablutions. They trusted a system where soil fertility and human longevity remained in a healthy balance. But […]