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WELCOME TO HELL: Mardan reaches 50°C, The Heatwave burned through our skins

By Qazi Wajdan, Student of Biotechnology Department at University of Malakand. This is not normal. This is the kind of heat you see in deserts, not cities filled with children, workers, students and families. Today, as I rode on my motorcycle towards my uncle’s house, the wind slapped my skin. My face felt like it was being cooked in an oven, my feet rotted inside my slippers and my mobile accessories started smelling like they were melted. This is not summer, this is hell unleashed on us in Mardan. It feels like the Day of Judgment is upon us. The southwestern Pakistani province of Balochistan was predicted to record some of the most extreme conditions with temperature rising up to 49 ° C, these are observed mostly in North America’s Death Valley, but this temperature in Mardan has reached more than that. This is possibly the highest temperature recorded this summer in KPK. Roads are deserted in broad day light. Only the desperate people dare to step out. There is skin irritat...