Beijing sees no choice but to have the state take control of its tech industry amid U.S. pressure. A man with a baby sits on a bench while children play amid flooded street during the monsoon season in Karachi, Pakistan July 11, 2022. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro The Pakistan Navy was also taking part in the relief and rescue operations, the Navy said in a statement. The flooding has crippled Pakistans agricultural sector, battering the country as it reels from an economic crisis and double-digit inflation that has sent the price of basics soaring. Massive floods in 2010 cost an estimated $10bn, mostly in rural areas. Mr Khan blew up the imf programme while still in office in February, when he imposed fuel subsidies. During the monsoon season, rainfall was equivalent to nearly 2.9 times the national 30-year average, causing widespread flooding and landslides with severe hide caption. A man rides on his donkey cart during heavy rainfall in the flood-hit town of Dera Allah Yar in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, on Aug. 30. But inflation can also rise and fall based on developments that have little to do with economic conditions, such as, It depends on the circumstances. Karachi, Pakistan CNN UN Secretary General Antnio Guterres on Tuesday warned that the world is sleepwalking into environmental destruction, as he PR. Most underpasses were flooded, and there was nowhere to pump the water out to, according to the chief minister of Sindh, Murad Ali Shah. hide caption. Amid great power competition, life in the China-Russia borderlands reveals the paradoxes underpinning the Beijing-Moscow friendship. In July, flooding in Karachi, Pakistan, after heavy monsoon rains. Web Desk 11:09 PM | 1 Mar, 2023. Yet it may not prove sufficiently flexible for Mr Sharif. "Deeply saddened by the tragic losses due to torrential rains in Karachi," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Twitter. Even before the monsoon rains hit this year, many of the countrys farmers had barely scraped by, as the economic crisis pushed the price of the basics needed to cultivate beyond their reach and season after season of extreme weather from heat waves to heavy monsoon rains lashed their fields. But theres just as much, if not more, tracking in the virtual world.". PR. Floodwater now covers around 100,000 square miles an area larger than the size of Britain with more floods expected in the coming weeks. The last two weeks brought even more rainfall to Pakistans southern region. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro The organization is focused on providing medical care and supplies, mental health support, as well as water, sanitation and hygiene services. A vehicle drives along a flooded street following heavy rains during the monsoon season in Karachi, Pakistan July 24, 2022. The streets of posh areas such as the Defence Housing Authority (DHA) complex and Clifton were flooded, with water gushing into houses. The value of its rupee has plunged as foreign reserves have dwindled. The World Health Organization said Wednesday that 888 health facilities have been damaged, even as experts warned that the disaster could lead to an increase in disease and malnutrition. A man walks over his collapsed mud house after heavy monsoon rains in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, on Aug. 28. We are constantly living in fear what if the nullah overflows or our already broken houses fall? Video, 00:01:00At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. A man rides on his donkey cart during heavy rainfall in the flood-hit town of Dera Allah Yar in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, on Aug. 30. The two clusters will consist of 70 homes each, with an estimated cost of PKR 350,000 per house. Enjoying this article? Pakistan has already received total pledges of $8.57 billion for helping in flood recovery at a conference in Geneva, information minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said on Monday. That means solid waste has to be carried for more than 40 kilometers from the eastern parts of the city to reach the sites. Analysts link Karachis rain woes to misgovernance, arguing that maintenance and monitoring of infrastructure and additions to it are necessary to equip the city to face heavier downpours without drowning. Reuters Daily Briefing All the news you A flooded area after heavy monsoon rains in Charsadda district in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Aug. 27. Rizwan Tabassum/AFP via Getty Images All Rights Reserved. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers. This shows negative growth of 9.52 percent as compared to the US $282.101 million worth same services provided during the corresponding period of the last fiscal year 2021-22, the In May, the temperatures rose to 124 degrees Fahrenheit 51 degrees Celsius making it one of the hottest cities in the world. For example, Karachis roads turn into rivers as soon as it rains. That is good. 2. Conversion of Green Lands into Housing Schemes and Sustainable Development, Pakistan: A responsible nuclear weapon state, 17-year-old student subjected to brutal torture by fellow students, 16 students injured in clashes between two groups of QAU, Activists welcome hike in tax on cigarette as good move for, UN boss visits Iraq for the first time in six years, Slap chat? Can South-East Asian countries learn to share power? Jemima Goldsmith's fundraiser brings in over 150,000 for Pakistan flood relief . The hit to rural wealth and incomes will probably spread to the industrial sector. At a high school in the city of Jamshoro, hundreds of people crowded into classrooms and the surrounding gardens. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. The destruction has left parts of the country unable to function. Charsadda is one of many Pakistani areas hit hard by floods in past years as well. Atif Bajwa, President and CEO of Bank Alfalah, spoke on occasion and expressed his commitment to supporting this initiative. Photo by Somaiyah Hafeez. Thousands of people living near flood-swollen rivers in Pakistan's north were ordered to evacuate. Photo by Somaiyah Hafeez. On Tuesday, the U.N. launched an appeal with the Pakistani government to raise $160 million in emergency aid. People stand by homes damaged by flooding after heavy rains, on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, Aug. 27. Tent city in Malir, Karachi for flood affected Through this association with Bank Alfalah, KRT intends to reconstruct two clusters of villages that were ravaged by the floods. Members of his own party have already denounced the imf deal; its leader (and Mr Sharifs elder brother), Nawaz Sharif, is reportedly unhappy with it. hide caption. His government has already made itself unpopular by raising electricity and fuel prices at the imfs behest. Pakistani authorities say some 33 million people have been affected by this year's catastrophic floods. Access unmatched financial data, news and content in a highly-customised workflow experience on desktop, web and mobile. Over 39,000 homes have been either partially damaged or fully destroyed by the deluge, along with the destruction of infrastructure such as highways, roads, and bridges. As of August 1, Pakistans NDMA reported that 149 people had lost their lives due to flooding in Balochistan, Pakistans impoverished southwestern province, with thousands being displaced. Prime Minister Oyun-Erdene's visit to Seoul highlighted some future directions of bilateral economic cooperation. Construction near the storm water drains wasnt restricted to just the informal housing settlements, though. Islamabad: We are solely reliant on God, this is what every second person in Pakistan has been saying now as weekly inflation in the country surges past 40 per cent. The Navy and local officials had rescued about 500 people nd local administration from the affected villages so far, government official Farhan Suleman Ranjho told Reuters. hide caption. Roads and bridges were demolished by the floods in the province, including some connecting the cities in Balochistan with neighboring province Sindh. The imf deal is predicated on steadfast implementation of a federal budget that prioritises cutting spending and borrowing. Renowned architect and urban planner Arif Hasan seconds this. Ghulam Qadir, 17, escaped his village two weeks ago. This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline "Under water", Discover stories from this section and more in the list of contents, Corrupt politics has become a bigger threat to the country than poverty, But a summit this week will expose bitter global divisions, The new shogun reflects on family history and Japans looming social change, Published since September 1843 to take part in a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress.. The death toll from monsoon flooding in Pakistan since June has reached more than 1,000, according to the country's National Disaster Management Authority. So far, they have affected some 33 million people about 14% of Pakistan's population causing death, damage, displacement and loss whose effects will be felt for months and years to come. Flooding in Mingora, a town in Pakistan's northern Swat Valley, follows heavy monsoon rainfall on Aug. 27. Financial assets in general have. hide caption. If the flood levels dont recede before the planting season in October, were in big trouble, she added. Our area was completely inundated. Pakistans floods highlight the dire risks of climate change in South Asia, so why is there so little Green politics in the region? The question begs to be answered. Water spilled from its banks into the surrounding plains, destroying infrastructure and homes. Standing water can act as breeding sites for mosquitoes that carry dengue fever and malaria. My house is well built, but at one time it seemed as if the walls were shaking.. There is no administration in the district. China, Turkey, the European Union and the United Arab Emirates also are sending aid. The highway linking Quetta city to Karachi was also closed for traffic as sections of it were swept away by flash floods. What is inflation? People affected by massive flooding after heavy monsoon rains were rescued from their damaged houses in Sindh province. Stranded people wade through a flooded area after heavy monsoon rainfall in Rajanpur district of Punjab province on Aug. 25. Can inflation affect the stock market? But who will tell it to the lender who will now ask me to pay back his money? he said. After being evacuated from home, a woman and child take refuge at a school in Karachi on Aug. 25. Since the start of the monsoon season in Pakistan this summer, more than 1,300 people have died in floods nearly half of whom are children and more than 6,000 have been injured, according to the United Nations. This isnt a house we are living in but rubble it can fall anytime. Karachi floods: Pakistan's biggest city hit by record rain and heavy floods, Karachi floods turn roads into rivers. Money, Tokyo 11 July, 2022 05:15 pm IST A flooded neighbourhood in Karachi, Pakistan | Photo: @aseyaomer | Twitter A- A+ T orrential rains, floods and landslides in Karachi and surrounding areas have once again raised questions We are constantly fearful that if the wind blows a little stronger or if it rains a little longer, we will be buried under this rubble of a house, she said. hide caption. US$173 million) to aid flood-affected people under the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), among other assistance. Asia, Asia Karachi, the countrys financial capital, boasts luxury hotels, malls and upmarket gated communities. In Sanghar, one of the largest cotton-producing districts in Sindh, Imdad Hingorja, a 45-year-old farmer, owns a small plot of land and was growing cotton. But in recent years, life in the district has become almost impossible to survive. A man pours out water in a flooded area in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan on Aug. 28. Around 33 million people have been displaced. Laborers carry produce as they wade through a flooded road after heavy rainfall, in Lahore, Pakistan, Thursday, July 21, 2022. The resultant flooding is the worst in decades. Residents move their belongings from their submerged houses after heavy monsoon rainfall in the Rajanpur district of Pakistan's Punjab province on Aug. 24. Karachi floods: Pakistan's biggest city hit by record rain and heavy floods. Nigeria's president-elect Bola Tinubu has promised to tackle a litany of problems, including escalating violence, double-digit inflation and industrial-scale oil theft. Satellite imagery shows the Indus River near Rojhan in south-central Pakistan. At least 87 people have been killed in the province due to heavy rainfall, floods and infrastructure collapse this month alone, according to a report from the Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA). These drains do not have a disposal and end where the road ends, causing rainwater to pile up. The ADB approved a $5 million grant to provide emergency flood assistance, strengthen the countrys disaster and climate resilience, and support food security. Rescue workers help evacuate people from homes hit by floods in Punjab's Rajanpur district, on Aug. 27. The poor crying for food and people sleeping empty stomach have now become the norm in cash-strapped Pakistan which has been taking all possible measures to unlock $1.1 All rights reserved. Asif Hassan/Agence France-Presse Getty Images, spend a bigger chunk of their budgets on necessities, historically fared badly during inflation booms. I will have not only lost my standing crops but also wasted my entire agriculture year.. He knew one man who drowned. Navigating floodwaters in the Dadu district of Sindh Province, of Pakistan, on Thursday.CreditFareed Khan/Associated Press. But if the water recedes, he added, he will have to sell the cows to pay back his loans and gather the resources he needs to plant his fall wheat crop. hide caption. This marks the first time that FAO has received funds through a government as a recipient of funding from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). KARACHI, Pakistan, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Pakistan has urged the international community to help with relief efforts as it struggles to cope The encroachment on thenullahsat the outfalls are notkatchi abadisbut the more posh areas in the city, he said. 06/02/2023. 2023 BBC. And severe inflation and shortages of fresh produce will likely hit urban centers unaffected by the flooding. View, About Earlier this month, torrential rain caused widespread flooding in Karachi. But the scale of the crisis has complicated relief efforts, Pakistani officials say. The seeds will be sown over approximately 30 percent of the total rice cropping area of the target districts. We were left to fend for ourselves, said Mushtaq Jamali, 84, a farmer from Sindh Province. An eye-witness report by two investigative journalists on the ground in Prato, Italy. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Southeast The Frontier Works Organization (FWO) has been assigned work on Gujja nullah and the National Logistic Cell (NLC) has been assigned with Orangi nullah but locals say that instead of doing the work, FWO and NLC have given the projects to contractors who are irresponsible, causing delays in work. Carmakers have already predicted a collapse in sales. Pakistan is seeing the worst rainfall since records began 89 years ago. Due to the lack of separate drainage and sewage systems in the city, both formal and informal settlements started to dispose their sewage into the nullahs a practice that has continued since the mid-1960s. We are a coastal city. Now, the destruction of their crops has resulted in millions of rupees of loss to farmers and pushed up the prices of vegetables like onions and tomatoes, crops of which were already destroyed. Arif Ali/AFP via Getty Images Karachis main streets, which house financial institutions and bank headquarters including Pakistans central bank, were flooded and rescue services were using boats to reach stranded people. Not only have our houses been demolished but due to the negligence of the government and the slow pace of the project, we live in constant fear that our already broken houses would flood or fall if it rains for long and thenullahoverflows, said Roshan, 50. Balochistan, a vast, arid province which is normally left untouched by the monsoon, has received five times its annual average. The flooding has crippled a country that was already reeling from an economic crisis and double digit-inflation that has sent the price of basic goods soaring. People wade through a flooded road after heavy rains, in Karachi, Pakistan, Monday, July 25, 2022. There are more than 33 appreciated. hide caption. hide caption. Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images The country has earned US $255.170 million by providing different travel services in various countries during the first half of the current fiscal year 2022-23. Photos show people wading knee-deep in muddy floodwater, with vehicles left stranded by the deluge. The Government of Pakistan has earmarked PKR 35 billion (ca. The damage from the flood will likely Since the monsoon season began last month, more than 300 people have been killed by heavy rains across Pakistan, according to its National Disaster Management Authority. They also believe that if thenullahwas merely cleaned, it would have sufficed. Anyone can read what you share. Volunteers with the Saylani Welfare International Trust charity distribute food to displaced people in an area hit by floods in Sukkur, Sindh province, on Aug 29. The floods this year were the latest extreme weather calamity to uproot his family. Gerry Shih reported from Delhi. The flooding turned catastrophic over the past few weeks as monsoon season rainfall overwhelmed low-lying areas near the Indus River. Hundreds of people from his village are in a makeshift camp, while there are nearly 500,000 people in displacement camps across the country. The solution lies in preventing further reclamation from the sea; building dams in the Malir River and its tributaries to collect water flowing in from the Kirthar Range; opening up the outfalls to the sea and since the level of the outfalls at high tide is below the level of the sea to create underground disposals through pipes at an appropriate distance from the shore, Hasan told The Diplomat via email. The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a message launching an appeal for international assistance to Pakistan. Hussain Ali/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images, Zubair Abbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images, said U.N. Secretary-General Antnio Guterres. Other provinces, including Balochistan in the southwest, have also experienced extreme rainfall in recent days. Christina Goldbaum reported from Dubai and Islamabad, Pakistan, and Zia ur-Rehman from Karachi. Monsoon rains have wreaked havoc across Pakistan. Agricultural fields have been waterlogged due to catastrophic floods, leading to food shortages. [1/5]A man with a baby sits on a bench while children play amid flooded street during the monsoon season in Karachi, Pakistan July 11, 2022. By Christina Lu, a reporter at Foreign Policy. Video, 00:00:41Watch Kate beat William in spin class endurance race, Record numbers of guide dog volunteers after BBC story. Abdul Majeed/AFP via Getty Images Pakistani authorities estimate rebuilding will cost upward of $10 billion, and are pleading for help. for Us. Displaced people wade through a flooded area in the city of Peshawar on Aug. 27. Now, he says, he and his family plan to stay in Karachi permanently. The Pakistan Army rescues people affected by the floods in the hard-hit Sindh Province on September 1, 2022. The annual monsoon rain is particularly bad this year and the city of Karachi is largely underwater. Source: Pakistan Super League (Twitter) RAWALPINDI Peshawar Zalmi registered victory over Karachi Kings in the 17th match For far too long the same situation has emerged each year: flooded roads and streets, entire neighborhoods submerged in muddy rainwater, innocent lives lost, and people getting stuck on the deluged roads for hours at stretch, wading through inundated streets and roads. Two rooms caved in, and another was starting to crumble. The damage from the flood will likely be far greater than initial estimates of around $10 billion, according to the countrys planning minister, Ahsan Iqbal. In 2022, during the first phase, KRT and the Bank joined hands to provide relief worth PKR 25 million, including ration distribution, winter jackets and tents in flood-affected districts of Sindh and Balochistan. As much as half of the countrys cotton crop has been destroyed, officials said, a blow to global cotton production in a year when cotton prices have soared as other major producers from the United States to China have been hit with extreme weather. Torrential rains caused widespread flooding and damage in Pakistans financial capital Karachi on Monday, even inundating the business district. Most underpasses were flooded and there was nowhere to pump the flood waters out to, the chief minister for Sindh province, Murad Ali Shah said. During the first spell of torrential rainfall in the city in early July, theroof of a house collapsedalong Gujjarnullah,resulting in the death of a woman. Pedestrians and vehicles navigate flooded roads after heavy monsoon rains in Mingora, in the Swat Valley, on Aug. 27. See here for a complete list of exchanges and delays. While India would like the current phase of stability at the LoC to continue, it has little incentive to try to make a grand gesture toward peace with Pakistan. One death had been confirmed in the latest spell of Monsoon rains, adding to the 29 reported since they began last month. This Every monsoon season a similar tale unfolds in Karachi, Children alight from a boat as they return home after school in a flood hit area following heavy monsoon rains in Dera Ghazi Khan district in Punjab province on Aug. 29. We left our home when the water reached to almost my neck, Qadir said. Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images In the event of an unparalleled disaster, it is imperative that all individuals and organizations unite to offer continuous support to those affected. hide caption. Mr. Jamali, 84, migrated from the outskirts of Jacobabad, a city in Sindh, to the port city of Karachi late last month after flooding consumed his small farm. Video, 00:01:00, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Dog found alive after 23 days under rubble. He offered every possible support for the Karachi administration. This entire network, from smallernullahsto bignullahsand then the two rivers, comes together and finally falls into the sea. But if the waist-deep water does not subside by the time he needs to plant, he does not know what he will do. A villager feeds his buffaloes on dry ground after floods in the Dera Ghazi Khan district of Punjab province on Aug. 29. Agriculture, a mainstay of Pakistan's economy, has been overwhelmed as fields drown. There was not enough dry land even to bury the people who died because of collapses of roofs and walls of their houses.. The most comprehensive solution to manage all your complex and ever-expanding tax and compliance needs. I was worried about my family, especially the children, he said. By the mid-1990s most of the nullahs in the city were choked with solid waste. So far, Pakistan has received aid from China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Uzbekistan, U.A.E. We are being reactive to individual events. Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images Displaced people sit in tents at a makeshift camp after fleeing their homes following heavy monsoon rains in Charsadda district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Aug. 29. A man wades through a flooded area on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan, on Aug. 27. Click here to subscribe for full access. This year was no different. As Pakistan grapples with the loss of housing and farmlands as well as the risk of disease, many fear the countrys humanitarian disaster is only beginning. The metrological office has forecast more rains in coming days. He said that the rains and floods came exactly when the crops in his fields were ready to harvest. Shahid Saeed Mirza/AFP via Getty Images Build the strongest argument relying on authoritative content, attorney-editor expertise, and industry defining technology. Roonjha said that the families are starving, having lost their homes and livelihood, forced to survive in these conditions with no or little assistance from the government. Is inflation bad? Exceptional rainfall began across Pakistan in June after months of historic heat waves and little precipitation. Pakistan's Federal Minister for Climate Change Sherry Rehman has called the flooding a "crisis of unimaginable proportions." Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. Somaiyah Hafeez is a feature story writer from Balochistan, Pakistan. 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