Since June, heavy rains and flooding have added a new level of grief to cash-strapped Pakistan and highlighted the disproportionate effect of climate change on impoverished populations.Įxperts say Pakistan is responsible for only 0.4% of the world’s historic emissions that are blamed for climate change. He said constructing dams would help produce electricity, curb pollution and decrease global warming and that army engineers have been asked to conduct an initial study.īajwa said working on alternate energy sources is essential and called for the gradual reduction of oil and coal as energy sources to minimal levels. “People will continue to suffer if we don't have a drainage system and dams,” Bajwa told reporters. Dadu could suffer further flooding from the rising waters of the Indus River. Qamar Jawed Bajwa toured the badly affected district of Dadu in Sindh and its surroundings on Saturday. As this time of year comes around you can lay your money down on a few sure things dirty trucks, lonely wives. When the mercury drops and the birds are flying, we trade in fishing rods and 9 to 5’s for the over & unders. Thousands of mud and brick homes caved in under the deluge leaving people homeless and sheltering in tents alongside damaged roads. At MUD RIVER it has never been a secret that we suffer from the hunting itch and the love of the outdoors. Miles of cotton and sugarcane crops, banana orchards and vegetable fields could be seen submerged in floodwaters. The waters also destroyed roads and communications infrastructure. Near 1,400 people have been killed, 13,000 injured and millions left homeless by the heavy flooding since mid-June. So far, UN agencies and several countries have sent multiple planeloads of aid, and authorities say the UAE has been one of the most generous contributors. Ullah said Sunday that two more flights bringing relief goods from the United Arab Emirates landed at Karachi airport. He has called repeatedly on the international community to send massive amounts of aid to Pakistan. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres last week called on the world to stop “sleepwalking” through the dangerous environmental crisis. Multiple officials and experts have blamed the rains and resulting floodwaters on climate change.

Pakistan has suffered under extremely heavy monsoon rains that started early this year - in mid-June. The aircraft landed at Sukkur Airport in Sindh and Ullah said the US operation that began Thursday would continue until Sept. Saif Ullah, spokesman for the country's Civil Aviation Authority, said each plane was loaded with about 35 tons of relief aid that would be distributed in the province by the World Food Program. Two more US military planes loaded with tons of aid for Pakistanis affected by flooding from deadly monsoon rains landed Sunday in southern Sindh province, one of the worst-affected regions in the impoverished country.

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