{"id":1627178,"date":"2022-08-30T16:03:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627178"},"modified":"2022-08-30T16:04:38","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T20:04:38","slug":"monster-monsoon-flooding-kills-over-a-thousand-in-pakistan-officials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/monster-monsoon-flooding-kills-over-a-thousand-in-pakistan-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Monster Monsoon,\u2019 Flooding Kills Over A Thousand In Pakistan: Officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmonster-monsoon-flooding-kills-over-a-thousand-in-pakistan-officials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1627178&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A third of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/pakistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pakistan<\/a> is underwater amid intense flooding that began in mid-June and has claimed over a thousand lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>About 33 million people have been affected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/08\/1125752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">record levels of flooding<\/a>, leaving over 1,000 people dead\u00a0and causing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/initial-economic-losses-pakistan-floods-least-10-bln-planning-minister-2022-08-29\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a> $10 billion in damages. On Tuesday, the United Nations announced an appeal for $160 million in aid for the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids,\u201d United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video posted to Twitter, explaining the disaster as \u201cthe relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Pakistani people are facing a monsoon on steroids. More than 1000 people have been killed \u2013 with millions more lives shattered. <\/p>\n<p>This colossal crisis requires urgent, collective action to help the Government &#038; people of Pakistan in their hour of need. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aVFFy4Irwa\">pic.twitter.com\/aVFFy4Irwa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ant\u00f3nio Guterres (@antonioguterres) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/antonioguterres\/status\/1564556094680227841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jens Laerke, a spokesperson for the UN Humanitarian Coordination Office (OCHA), said Tuesday that 500,000 people have been displaced and almost one million homes have been damaged. Damaged infrastructure, including 3,500 km of roads and 150 bridges, has hindered people\u2019s ability to flee to safer ground. Many of the dead are children, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Climate Minister Sherry Rehman said on Monday that a third of the country is underwater, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/pakistan-floods-un-appeal-aid-monsoon-climate-change-rcna45219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">calling<\/a> the floods \u201cthe monster monsoon of the decade.\u201d He also attributed the disaster to climate change.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations\u2019 $160 million aid plan is designed to reach \u201c5.2 million of the most vulnerable people in the country,\u201d with the objective of delivering lifesaving assistance, preventing disease outbreaks, and ensuring access to assistance and protection. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaid.gov\/news-information\/press-releases\/aug-30-2022-united-states-providing-additional-30-million-critical-humanitarian-assistance-pakistan-flooding\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">committed<\/a> $30 million in aid.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The floodwaters in select areas of Pakistan started receding as the rain stopped three days ago, The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/08\/30\/pakistan-flooding-underwater-monsoon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.\u00a0After reviewing the damages caused by the floods, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said, \u201cI can say without any fear of contradiction, this flood situation is probably the worst in the history of Pakistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Intense flooding isn\u2019t new to Pakistan. Historic floods <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-62722117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crushed the country<\/a> in 2010, killing almost 2,000 people in what became at the time the deadliest flood in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A third of Pakistan is underwater amid intense flooding that began in mid-June and has claimed over a thousand lives.\u00a0 About 33 million people have been affected by the record levels of flooding, leaving over 1,000 people dead\u00a0and causing an estimated $10 billion in damages. On Tuesday, the United Nations announced an appeal for $160 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1627180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1627178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}