Special prayers for sleet hold in Karachi
KARACHI: Hundreds collected during New Memon Masjid on MA Jinnah Road to offer special prayers for sleet in Karachi that has been gripped by a heatwave for over a week now.
A mass request for sleet was hold on Saturday during a mosque that is one of a biggest and many distinguished mosques in a city.
Worshippers offering Salat Al-Istisqa (Prayer for Rain) to ask for service in a form of sleet as Karachi has been grappling with a heatwave with temperatures mountainous over 40 degrees Celsius daily.
Further, a Meteorological Department has released another heatwave warning as temperatures in Karachi are approaching to soar from Monday (May 27) to Thursday (May 31) after cooling off somewhat on a weekend.
However, vocalization to Geo News, Sindh Health Secretary Dr Fazlullah Pechuho discharged reports of deaths due to a heatwave in a city.
“So distant not a singular genocide has been reported due to a heatwave in a city,” Dr Pechuho said.
The heatwaves coincide with a holy month of Ramazan. The mega pier city is already tormented by visit and unannounced energy cuts and miss of immature spaces – all of that make a feverishness harder to bear.
People vital on Karachi’s swarming streets have small entrance to preserve or protected celebration water, creation them acutely during risk in peppery temperatures.
In Jun 2015 about 1,200 people died in southern Pakistan during a heatwave, with scarcely two-thirds of a victims being homeless people.