Message from Nepal

THREE features of the catastrophic flood that tore through Nepal on Aug 16, 2026, do not fit Pakistan’s mountain disaster strategy: it started without rains it originated across the border it had huge compounding factors. None of these three is a one-off. They describe a disaster category that has been forming across the region for over a decade, growing more frequent, widespread and severe. But Pakistan’s climate planning has stayed focused almost entirely on the monsoon. A mass of rock and…