Pakistan: Flash Flads killed the warning between 11 heavy rains
Officials of the country’s disaster management said that flash floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan’s north -western mountainous province, killed 11 people, including four children.The Provincial Disaster Management Authority said in a report released late Friday, “In the last 24 hours, flash floods and landslides claimed the lives of 11 people, including four children and three women, while six others were injured.”According to the report, one person was killed in Malkand district, while 10 others were killed in the SWAT Valley. Local media reported that the families had swept away and the flood damaged 56 houses on the banks of the Swat river. Pakistan’s local daily newspaper Dawn said that rescue operations were going on in many other districts along with people trapped in water.Meanwhile, the National Meteorological Department warned of heavy rainfall and the possibility of high flash floods till Tuesday.Pakistan and climate changePakistan is one of the most weak countries in the world that affects 240 million inhabitants with the increasing frequency of flash floods and other climatic events with the effects of climate change.In May, some 24 people were killed in serious storms in Pakistan. In August 2022, one -third of the country ran away due to unprecedented monsoon rains with over 33 million people. Scientists from all over the world have since said that climate crisis had to be blamed and rising global temperatures will only make the monsoon more intense in future.Pakistan continues ‘sleepwalk’ on climate change- former ministerFormer Pakistan Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman took into X, saying that the nation continued to “sleepwalk” on climate change and raised this danger. He pointed to the regular alert issued by the National Disaster Management Agency and said that local officials had failed to take him seriously.“Not only the provincial administration failed to understand the magnitude of the crisis, I keep repeating, so it denys tourists. It is spatial for a system that thinks that climate change can only be placed on a back burner, or that the crisis will not multiply in the scale and intensity,” he wrote.He said, “These are not” natural disasters “, which absent all actors of responsibility, local, national and global. Super monsoon and flash floods are not ideal. They have been intense for decades,” he said, urging the country to “wake up” on the issue.
