Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday descended on Twitter to thank Prime Minister Narendra Modi for extending sincere condolences when Muslim countries were suffering great losses and human losses due to flooding. Thanking PM Modi for good words, Shehbaz Shariff assured that with the help of their typical resilience, Pakistani people will overcome the adverse effects of natural disasters & rebuild their lives and communities. PM Modi on Monday was brought to Twitter to give condolences to the Pakistanans who were hit by floods. Heavy rain and floods have soaked almost one third of Pakistan and claimed the lives of 1,100 people, including 380 children. This came in the midst of an appeal made by the United Nations for assistance on Tuesday for what was described as “Climate Disaster that has never happened before.”
Recently, a striking new satellite image has appeared that revealed the extent to which Pakistani’s records flooded and showed how the overflowing Indus river had changed the part of the Sindh province into a 100 kilometer-width lake. Both in Sindh and Balochistan provinces, rainfall has been 500% above average, hit all villages and agricultural land, building buildings and destroying plants.
Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said that the country had suffered economic losses of more than USD 10 billion due to rain and floods that flooded large areas, which affected millions of people. The minister told the media that more than five years would be needed to rebuild the country. He said that the preliminary assessment showed that the loss was very large, saying, “This is greater than $ 10 billion. At least 1,136 had been killed due to flooding and 1,634 were injured, according to the latest data released by the National Disaster Management Authority, the Head of the National Agency assigned to handle disasters. Meanwhile, around five million people in Pakistan who were hit by floods, including children, may fall ill due to the rupture of the disease transmitted through water and vectors transmitted through typhoid and diarrhea in the next four to 12 weeks, health experts have warned. Floods that were triggered by monsoon rain that had never occurred before had caused broad chaos throughout Pakistan, killing more than 1,100 people so far and destroying agricultural land.
