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Some amount of flooding is expected in Kaccha/Katcha Doaba land, but this level of flooding was very anomalous due to Climate Change plus some questionable urban planning. Add to that the fact that ongoing local elections in Sindh has paralyzed the state's civil service and this became a horrible calamity.

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Je tussi ek kissan da mundeh ki comment nu downvote kar rehe hai, tenu khuch galt fami hegi. Sindh, Pakhtunkwa, Punjab, Himachal, Jammu, Kashmir, Haryana, Uttarakhand, aur Delhi NCR di kissani saili ta bilkul same to same hege Angrezo aur Environment di whajese.

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First comment in Punjabi on Hacker news :) ... You right, we are together in this climate change disaster

Agreed! There needs to be much more coordination at the SAARC level to solve these issues. Honestly cross-border trade would be amazing for Northern India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. The Partition and instability of the 70s-90s really destroyed the economic potential of the region.

Translation: Those of you who are downvoting a farmer’s (Edit: son’s, munda can be more generic term for person too) comment are misinformed. Farmers of Sindh, …, and Delhi NCR are in the same boat because of the British and the environment.

* son of a farmer. never lived on a farm myself (grew up here in North America) but my dad did growing up and during summer vacations we'd often help my grandfather as well with the kharif crop.