The United Nations and the Pakistani government issued a flash appeal on Tuesday for $160 million on Tuesday to help the country cope with catastrophic floods that have killed more than 1,100 people, destroyed infrastructure and crops, and affected 33 million people.<\/p>\n
The funds will provide 5.2 million people with food, water, sanitation, emergency education, protection and health support, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video statement played played at the Foreign Office (FO), calling the flooding a \u201ccolossal crisis\u201d.<\/p>\n
Key developments<\/strong><\/p>\n NDMA says 1,136 have died since June 14 \u201cPakistan is awash in suffering. The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids \u2014 the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding,\u201d Guterres said.<\/p>\n He branded the floods a \u201cclimate catastrophe\u201d, saying South Asia was one of the world\u2019s climate crisis hotspots. \u201cPeople living in these hotspots are 15 times more likely to die from climate impacts,\u201d the UN secretary-general said.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we continue to see more and more extreme weather events around the world, it is outrageous that climate action is being put on the back burner as global emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising, putting all of us \u2014 everywhere \u2014 in growing danger,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The United Nations and the Pakistani government issued a flash appeal on Tuesday for $160 million on Tuesday to help the country cope with catastrophic floods that have killed more than 1,100 people, destroyed infrastructure and crops, and affected 33 million people. The funds will provide 5.2 million people with food, water, sanitation, emergency education, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280455,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-280450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n
\n75 dead, 59 hurt in last 24 hours
\nProvinces, particularly Sindh, suffer damage of over Rs355bn
\nUN issues $160m flash appeal to help flood victims in Pakistan
\nFM Bilawal says the country has become \u201cground zero\u201d of global warming
\nWater levels receding in KP rivers
\nAhsan Iqbal says it might take five years to rebuild
\nCOAS Bajwa reaches Swat to monitor flood relief activities
\nCanada, Azerbaijan and UK pledge $5m, $1.2m and \u00a31.5m in aid, respectively
\nPDMA releases Rs220m for relief measures in four KP districts
\nThe aid, covering the initial six months of the crisis response, will also help to avoid outbreaks of cholera, and to provide food aid to mothers and their young children.<\/p>\n