More Than 30 Million Affacted by Floods In Pakistan
According to the Minister of climate change’s official statement, More than 30 million people have been affected by session historical monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan. Since mid-June, 937 people have died from severe rain and flooding across the South Asian country, according to the country’s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). Sherry Rehman, the minister for climate change, called the floods “unprecedented” and “the worst humanitarian disaster of this decade.”
Pakistan has urged the international community to help with relief efforts as it struggled to cope with the aftermath of torrential rains that have triggered massive floods since last month, killing more than 900 people.
As Pakistan has also been facing a poor economical situation and is not able to handle this massive disaster across the country, so Govt of Pakistan officially said to the international community to help Pakistan with relief operations. Floods in Pakistan killed a number of people and destroyed many buildings so relief operations must be run on a big scale. “Thirty-three million have been affected in different ways. The final homeless figure is being assessed,” climate minister Sherry Rehman said.
In a recent news conference, Rehman gave a detailed briefing on the flood situation and said it is a “humanitarian disaster of epic proportions” which hit 70% of the country area. “We need to ask not just the provinces and Islamabad, it is beyond the capacity of any one administration or government to rehabilitate and even manage the rescue and relief,” she added.
