{"id":182540,"date":"2022-09-10T13:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T10:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=182540"},"modified":"2022-09-10T13:12:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T10:12:57","slug":"u-n-chief-visits-areas-of-pakistan-devastated-by-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/u-n-chief-visits-areas-of-pakistan-devastated-by-floods\/","title":{"rendered":"U.N. chief visits areas of Pakistan devastated by floods"},"content":{"rendered":"

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ISLAMABAD: United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Saturday visited several areas of Pakistan ravaged by floods, as he rounded off a two-day trip aimed at raising awareness of the disaster.
\nRecord monsoon rains and glacier melt in northern mountains have triggered floods that have killed more than 1,391 people, sweeping away houses, roads, railway tracks, bridges, livestock and crops.
\nHuge areas of the country are inundated, and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes. The government says the lives of nearly 33 million have been disrupted. Pakistan estimates the damage at $30 billion, and both the government and Guterres have blamed the flooding on climate change.
\nThe UN secretary-general landed in Sindh province on Saturday, before flying over some of the worst-affected areas en route to Balochistan, another badly hit province.
\n\u201cIt is difficult not to feel deeply moved to hear such detailed descriptions of tragedy,\u201d Guterres said after landing in Sindh, according to a video released by the office of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.<\/p>\n

\u201cPakistan needs massive financial support. This is not a matter of generosity, it is a matter of justice.\u201d
\nA video released by Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb showed Guterres seated next to Sharif viewing flood-damaged areas from an aircraft window. \u201cUnimaginable,\u201d Guterres said, surveying the damage.
\nIn July and August, Pakistan got 391 mm (15.4 inches) of rain, or nearly 190 percent more than the 30-year average. The southern province of Sindh has seen 466 percent more rain than average.
\nGuterres said on Saturday the world needed to understand the impact of climate change on low-income countries.
\n\u201cHumanity has been waging war on nature and nature strikes back,\u201d he said.
\n\u201cNature strikes back in Sindh, but it was not Sindh that has made the emissions of greenhouse gases that have accelerated climate change so dramatically,\u201d Guterres said. \u201cThere is a very unfair situation relative to the level of destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n

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