Pakistan: PM Shahbaz Sharif said- 'Pakistan has not recovered from the summer floods, the world's attention has reduced'

World Support for Pakistan: Prime Minister of Pakistan Shehbaz Sharif has said that the terrible rains and floods in the country last summer had killed 1,700 people. A large area the size of Switzerland was submerged and 33 million people were affected. This number is more than the people living in most European countries.

The attention of the world has decreased

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif wrote an article for the Guardian newspaper. Through this, he told, "The attention of the whole world has reduced on this, but the water has not reduced." Large parts of Sindh and Balochistan provinces are submerged in water. The number of people suffering from lack of food and drink in Pakistan has doubled to 14 million. At the same time, another 90 lakh people have gone towards extreme poverty due to this flood. 

Many areas turned into permanent lake

These flooded areas now look like large permanent lakes, which have forever changed the lives of the people and people living there. No pumps can remove this water in less than a year. Along with this, till July 2023, the concern is that there may be flood again in these areas.

Pakistan is vulnerable to climate change

Pakistan is facing difficulties not only due to frequent floods but also due to extreme climate change. Earlier in the spring of 2022 the country was in the grip of a scorching, drought-exacerbating heatwave. Due to this there was a fire in the forest in the west. The fact is that some of the areas with record temperatures were subsequently submerged. This underlines the sharp ups and downs in weather patterns. 

Loss equal to 10th of GDP

The World Bank and the European Union (EU) estimate that the damage caused by the floods has exceeded $30 billion, which is one-tenth of Pakistan's entire gross domestic product (GDP)