Pakistan's foreign minister says his nation has become ground zero for global warming and says more flooding is expected. Read more at straitstimes.com.
CHARSADDA, PAKISTAN - Torrential rains and flooding have submerged a third of the country and killed more than 1,100 people, including 380 children, in Pakistan, where army helicopters plucked stranded families and dropped food packages to inaccessible areas as the UN appealed on Tuesday for US$160 million in aid.
"One third of the country is literally under water," Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman told Reuters, describing the scale of the disaster. Guterres will head to Pakistan next week to see the effects of the"unprecedented climate catastrophe", a UN spokesman said.Nearly 300 stranded people, including some tourists, were airlifted in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, a state-run disaster management agency said in a statement, while over 50,000 people were moved to two government shelters in the northwest.
Colossal volumes of water are pouring into the Indus river, which flows down the middle of the country from its northern peaks to southern plains, bringing flooding along its length. Guterres said the US$160 million he hoped to raise with the appeal would provide 5.2 million people with food, water, sanitation, emergency education and health support.Sharif said that amount of aid would need"to be multiplied rapidly", pledging that"every penny will reach the needy, there will be no waste at all".
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