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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for &massive& international aid for flood-hit Pakistan while visiting the country on Friday, as Islamabad put the cost of flood-related damage at $30 billion.Record monsoon rains and glacier melt in northern mountains have triggered floods that have swept away houses, roads, railway tracks, bridges, livestock and crops, and killed about 1,400 people.Huge areas of the country are inundated and hundreds of thousands have been forced from their homes.
The government says the lives of nearly 33 million people have been disrupted.
Both the government and Guterres have blamed the flooding on climate change.I call on the international community that Pakistan needs massive financial support, as according to initial estimates the losses are around $30 billion&, Guterres told a joint news conference in the capital Islamabad, after meeting with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on his two-day visit, Reuters reported.Sharif said &Pakistan needs an infinite amount of funding& for its relief effort, adding the country &will remain in trouble as long as it doesn''t receive sufficient international assistance&.The United Nations has launched an appeal for $160 million in aid to help Pakistan cope with the disaster.As well as meeting Sharif and foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Guterres will tour affected areas during his visit.Bhutto-Zardari told a news conference after the meeting that Pakistan was waiting for the rescue and relief phase of the crisis to end before calling a donor conference to work on reconstruction.When we have a 100km lake that has developed in the middle of Pakistan, tell me how big of a drain can I build to manage this?& he said.There is no man-made structure that can evacuate this water.In July and August, Pakistan recorded 391 mm of rainfall & nearly 190% more than the 30-year average.
The southern province of Sindh has been overwhelmed, with 466% more rain than average.Guterres said the world needed to understand the impact of climate change on low-income countries.It is essential for the international community to realize this, especially the countries who have contributed more to climate change,& he said.The post UN chief calls for ‘massive& help as Pakistan puts flood losses at $30 billion first appeared on Ariana News.





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