Following eight consecutive weeks of rainfall since June, at least 1,136 people have died across the country.
in the provinces of Balochistan and Sindh. Mountainous regions in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have also been badly hit and thousands of people in the northern Swat Valley have been ordered to evacuate. According to the WFP, access to the affected regions remains a critical issue, as more than 100 bridges and some 1,800 miles of roads have been damaged or destroyed, nearly 800,000 farm animals have died, and two million acres of crops and orchards have been deluged.
“The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids—the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding.” The government estimates that the damage from the floods already cost more than $10 billion, adding that the world had an obligation to help the South Asian country cope with the effects of man-made climate change. Despite producing
, Pakistan consistently ranks in the top 10 countries most vulnerable to the effects of climate change.
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