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Never Seen Climate Change On This Scale: UN Chief On Floods In Pakistan
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Never Seen Climate Change On This Scale: UN Chief On Floods In Pakistan

[ad_1] I have never seen climate carnage on this scale. I have simply no words to describe, UN Chief said.Karachi: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Saturday that he has "never seen climate carnage" on such a scale as he toured parts of Pakistan hit by floods, blaming wealthier countries for the devastation.Nearly 1,400 people have died in flooding that covers an area the size of the United Kingdom and has wiped out crops and destroyed homes, businesses, roads and bridges.Guterres has said he hopes his visit will galvanise support for Pakistan, which has put the provisional cost of the catastrophe at more than $30 billion, according to the government's flood relief centre."I have seen many humanitarian disasters in the world, but I have never seen climate carnage on ...
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Economic Loss Due To Pakistan Floods Rises To Around $18 Billion: Report
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Economic Loss Due To Pakistan Floods Rises To Around $18 Billion: Report

[ad_1] Pakistan Floods: The catastrophic floods have destroyed crops in 8.25 million acres in Pakistan.Islamabad: The estimated economic loss due to the unprecedented floods in Pakistan has neared around USD 18 billion, an increase from USD 12.5 billion estimated earlier, as calculated by the Centre and endorsed by the provinces.Agriculture growth faced a much more severe impact in the aftermath of floods. The catastrophic floods have destroyed crops in 8.25 million acres as compared to the initial assessment of 4.2 million acres which has further increased the economic losses, reported The News International.Cotton, rice, and minor crops have been damaged severely and if dewatering is not done properly, it can cause serious problems for wheat sowing. The cotton crop has evaporated in mo...
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UN Chief In Pakistan To Boost Flood Aid For Millions Affected
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UN Chief In Pakistan To Boost Flood Aid For Millions Affected

[ad_1] Pakistan officials say it will cost at least $10 billion to rebuild and repair damaged infrastructure.Islamabad: United Nations chief Antonio Guterres began a two-day visit to flood-hit Pakistan Friday that officials hope will boost global support for a humanitarian crisis affecting millions.A third of the country is under water - an area the size of the United Kingdom - following record rains brought by what Guterres has described as "a monsoon on steroids".Pakistan officials say it will cost at least $10 billion to rebuild and repair damaged infrastructure -- an impossible sum for the deeply indebted nation -- but the priority, for now, is food and shelter for millions made homeless."Everything is drowned, everything washed away," said Ayaz Ali, suffering from fever as he reluct...
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Pakistan Trade Body Asks Government To Allow Cotton Imports From India: Report
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Pakistan Trade Body Asks Government To Allow Cotton Imports From India: Report

[ad_1] Pakistan Textile Exporters Association is proposing trade with India, a report said. (File)Islamabad: Due to the dire condition of the Pakistan textile industry following the devastating floods, a trade body in the country has approached the Shehbaz Sharif government to allow cotton imports from India.In the wake of losses suffered by cotton producers in Sindh and Punjab, the Pakistan Textile Exporters Association is proposing trade with India through Wagah to meet its rising export orders, reported Dawn newspaper.A total of 25 percent of the standing cotton crop had been damaged and there is a possibility of a raw material shortage in Pakistan, the newspaper said citing early estimates from exporters.On Wednesday, the Pakistan government formed a committee that will negotiate wit...
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Shame, Misery As Pakistan Floods Leave Many Without Toilets
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Shame, Misery As Pakistan Floods Leave Many Without Toilets

[ad_1] They take turns to keep watch and warn away any encroaching men.Pakistan: The stench of decay hangs over a makeshift camp in Pakistan's south, where hundreds of locals have sought shelter from the devastating monsoon floods that have put nearly a third of the country under water.In Punjab province, dozens of tents are perched in the area around a small rural railway station -- the only dry land on a horizon of water, reached only by a sliver of road.The odour is a heady mix of rotting vegetation from drowned crops, leftover food scraps and garbage -- as well as the accumulated excrement of the hundreds of people and livestock gathered there.Flood-affected people wade through a flooded area with relief food bags"There is no place for showering or going to the bathroom," said Zebunn...
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“We Have Gone Back 50 Years”: Pakistan Farmers On Flood Damage
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“We Have Gone Back 50 Years”: Pakistan Farmers On Flood Damage

[ad_1] Islamabad can scarcely afford imports -- even if it purchases discounted grain from Russia.Pakistan's farmers are still counting their losses from the devastating floods that have put a third of the country under water, but the long-term impact is already clear."We have gone back 50 years," said Ashraf Ali Bhanbro, a farmer in Sindh province whose 2,500 acres of cotton and sugarcane -- on the verge of being harvested -- have now been wiped out.More than 33 million people have been affected by the floods caused by record monsoon rains, and one of the worst-hit areas is Sindh in Pakistan's south.The province is bisected by the mighty Indus River, along whose banks farming has flourished for millennia with records of irrigation systems dating back to 4,000 BC.Sindh's problems are two...
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US Military Says Preparing Aid To Flood-Ravaged Pakistan
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US Military Says Preparing Aid To Flood-Ravaged Pakistan

[ad_1] Paksitan Floods: Over 1,000 killed and thousands of houses destroyed due to heavy rain in Pakistan.Washington: The United States is conducting a military aid mission to flood-devastated Pakistan, the US armed forces' Central Command said Friday."CENTCOM is sending an assessment team to Islamabad to determine what potential support DoD (the US Department of Defense) can provide... as part of the United States' assistance to the flooding crisis in Pakistan," spokesman Colonel Joe Buccino said in a statement.The decision followed a telephone conversation Thursday between CENTCOM commander General Erik Kurilla and Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the spokesman said.The United States is the top arms supplier to Pakistan's military, but relations between the tw...
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Pakistan’s Armed Forces Rescue 2,000 Marooned By Historic Floods: Report
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Pakistan’s Armed Forces Rescue 2,000 Marooned By Historic Floods: Report

[ad_1] On Thursday, the Pakistani military said it had evacuated about 50,000 people.Islamabad/Karachi: Pakistan's armed forces have rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, in a disaster blamed on climate change that has swamped about a third of the south Asian nation and is still growing.Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains brought floods that have killed at least 1,208 people, including 416 children, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has said.The United Nations has appealed for $160 million in aid to help tackle what it said was an "unprecedented climate catastrophe" as Pakistan's navy has fanned out inland to carry out relief operations in areas that resemble a sea."During the last 24 hours, 1,991 s...
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Record-Breaking Himalayan Melt Worsens Pakistan’s Deadly Floods
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Record-Breaking Himalayan Melt Worsens Pakistan’s Deadly Floods

[ad_1] The climate clock is ticking even on the tallest peaks.Every year, as the weather warms, teams of Indian scientists trek the Himalayan mountains to study the Chhota Shigri glacier in India's northern state of Himachal Pradesh. For the past decade and a half, they've recorded the extent of snow cover, checked the temperature of the air and soil, observed the surface of ice formations and measured the discharge from seasonal snowmelt that feeds the river valleys below.This year, record-breaking glacial melt washed the discharge measuring station clean away."We had installed it in June and by August we couldn't even find the remnants," said Mohd Farooq Azam, a glaciologist at the Indian Institute of Technology in Indore. "We had an intense heat wave in early summer when temperatures ...
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Pakistan Floods: Over 3 Million Children At Risk, More Than 1000 Killed, 287,000 Houses Destroyed
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Pakistan Floods: Over 3 Million Children At Risk, More Than 1000 Killed, 287,000 Houses Destroyed

[ad_1] Pakistan Floods: Over 1,100 people including over 350 children have lost their lives.Islamabad: More than three million children are at risk in Pakistan following the devastating floods, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said in a statement on Wednesday."More than three million children are in need of humanitarian assistance and at increased risk of waterborne diseases, drowning and malnutrition due to the most severe flooding in Pakistan's recent history," the release said.The impact of the heavy monsoon rains, which began in mid-July 2022, is drastic, affecting 33 million people in 116 districts across the country, with 66 districts being hardest hit."UNICEF is working with government and non-government partners to respond to the urgent needs of children and families i...
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