Why did so many die in Karachi’s heatwave? - BBC News
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Critics blame the provincial government in Sindh, run by former President Asif Ali Zardari’s PPP party, for moving too slowly to address public misery.
While hundreds were dying in Karachi, Mr Zardari and other powerful members of his family chose to fly out of the country. The government was seen as unresponsive to the unfolding tragedy.
It was only a full week later that Mr Zardari’s son and chairman of the PPP, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, flew back to Karachi and visited heat stroke patients at a government-run hospital.
By then, at least 1,200 people were dead in Pakistan’s biggest city.