Negligence by public institutions continues to cost lives in Pakistan. The deaths of 14 people — 10 of them from the same family — who were swept away by a flash flood in the Swat River on June 27 were not the result of an unforeseeable act of nature. They were the direct consequence of administrative failure. An inquiry ordered by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur has confirmed that multiple government departments failed to perform even their most basic duties.

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