A new UN report has warned of the acute danger of an "urban heat effect" on several large cities, including Karachi, raising new concerns about how the cash-strapped government will prevent or mitigate urban climate disasters. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, in its Asia-Pacific Disaster Report 2025, identified Karachi among nine major Asia-Pacific megacities projected to become "substantially hotter", primarily due to rapid, unplanned urbanisation and strained infrastructure creating the urban........

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