LAHORE : A powerful one-hour spell of the monsoon’s sixth wave lashed Lahore today, flooding low-lying areas and crippling the city’s power supply network.
Between 1:35 PM and 2:35 PM, Pani Wala Talab received 65mm of rain, Lakshmi Chowk and Gulberg 58mm, while other areas saw varying intensities: 39mm in Chowk Nakhuda, 26mm in Farrukhabad, 12mm in Iqbal Town, and 10mm in Gulshan Ravi.
Major thoroughfares including Lakshmi Chowk, Davis Road, Empress Road, Mall Road, Jail Road, and areas near Shimla Pahari and Haji Camp were submerged, choking traffic and creating perilous conditions for motorists.
The downpour also hit Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) hard, with over 120 feeders tripping and plunging vast areas—including Gulshan Ravi, Samanabad, Qila Gujjar Singh, Shahdara, Imamia Colony, Shalimar, Baghbanpura, Harbanspura, Garhi Shahu, Mughalpura, and Bhati Gate—into darkness.
Burned-out transformers added to the crisis, prolonging outages in multiple neighborhoods. Residents voiced anger over delayed repair work, many enduring hours without power during and after the storm.
The disruption has reignited debate over Lahore’s aging infrastructure and its capacity to cope with increasingly severe weather patterns linked to climate change.
