Melting mountains and returning floods — Swat’s climate emergency
Authorities urged monitoring of vulnerable sites, evacuation preparedness and public awareness in communities living along rivers and streams. For the residents of Swat, however, the warning did not sound theoretical. It reopened memories of a crisis that has unfolded over more than a decade, one measured not only in damaged roads and collapsed bridges, but also in disrupted identities, broken landscapes and communities learning to live with uncertainty.
- ▪Authorities urged monitoring of vulnerable sites, evacuation preparedness and public awareness in communities living along rivers and streams.
- ▪For the residents of Swat, however, the warning did not sound theoretical.
- ▪It reopened memories of a crisis that has unfolded over more than a decade, one measured not only in damaged roads and collapsed bridges, but also in disrupted identities, broken landscapes and communities learning to live with uncertainty.
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Melting mountains and returning floods — Swat’s climate emergency Fazal Khaliq Published June 30, 2026 0 A view of a flooded restaurant at Bypass Road in Mingora, Swat, during the August 2022 floods — FIle photo by Fazal Khaliq This picture shows the destruction caused by flash floods in Shahgram village of Madyan valley in Swat in 2020. — File photo via Fazal Khaliq Listen to article 1x 1.2x 1.5x comments Join our Whatsapp Channel Add Dawn as a trusted source SWAT: On June 27, authorities issued a Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (Glof) alert for the northern districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Swat, warning that soaring temperatures were expected to accelerate snow and glacier melt across mountain valleys and increase the risk of flash flooding, landslides and sudden inundation…
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