There were heavy hailstorms lashing out at Islamabad and parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa last Wednesday. These were no ordinary hailstorms but perhaps the severest of their kind in recent history as they pelted golf ball size hail that wantonly smashed car windscreens and house windows, creating panic among the residents of the affected areas.

Though the storm only lasted a little over half an hour in Islamabad it wrought considerable damage, especially to solar panels resulting in considerable financial loss to the owners. Children playing out in the open were also frightened and ran indoors to save themselves. After the storm subsided it looked like a battle field with rows of cars whose glasses were smashed and the streets and gardens littered with hail.

The news of this unusual phenomenon soon spread to the four corners of the country as in this digital age stories with pictures of this hail storm were soon circulating on digital communication channels not only within Pakistan but across the world. This was another proof that Pakistan is in the line of fire of global weather change and in fact seems to be in the........

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