New Delhi: Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan is facing the ire of social media trollers after he announced that the country’s army has been deployed to clean the rain hit Karachi. Heavy rains wrecked the city on Monday by causing severe waterlogging. According to media reports, the streets are flooded with waist-deep water and the rainwater has also mixed with sewage. Three people also died of electrocution.

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Soon after Khan tweeted about the measures taken to bring relief to residents and said that the National Disaster Management Authority of Pakistan has been informed about the situation. Apart from that, he wrote that even the Army has been asked to do a cleaning drive. Netizens excoriated him for deploying the military to do a job in which the municipal authorities and the relief authorities lacked skill in.


Trollers have hit back at the minister for the statement and are asking if its the duty of the army to clean?




Some have said that the Prime Minister should make a personal visit to the city himself.


Residents of Karachi blame the civic body and the lackadaisical approach of the government for the problems faced by the city every year. According to a report by IANS, on Monday the rains resulted in accidents, flooding, swamped roads, overflowing gutters, power breakdowns and traffic jams. A report by Pakistani newspaper Dawn said that residents took to social media to express anger over the condition of the city. The report also said that Sindh Minister for Information and Local Government Nasir Hussain Shah defended the provincial government by calling the situation the result of 'natural calamity' and said 'no human being has control over' it.