Is Pakistan Responsible for its Worst Floods?

 Pakistan is currently experiencing the worst floods in its history, affecting more than 30 million people and killing more than 1,200. Last week, more than 50,000 people were moved to relief camps. "Some regions of the country look like a small sea" and "at the end, it can keep a third of Pakistan underwater," Pakistan's climate, Sherry Rahman, said on Sunday.

"More than a million damaged or destroyed homes. Seventy -two Pakistani districts are in disaster, four corners of Pakistan underwater, and more than 3,500 kilometers of roads are destroyed. Shahbaz Sharif, the country's prime minister, said on Wednesday: About a million animals were lost.

Southern Sindh and Balochistan were the worst affected in this country. A recent CNN report shows shocking satellite images showing that the overflowing Indus River has turned part of the Indus province into a 100-kilometer inland lake. Satellite images taken on August 28 by NASA's MODIS satellite sensor show how a combination of heavy rains and flooding from the Indus River has inundated large parts of Sindh province. United Nations

Moshin Hafez, a scientist from Lahore, of the International Water Management Agency, is "the eighth most vulnerable country of climate change."

Although some experts accuse the worst disaster management results in the country, some point out that some play a major role in climate change in unprecedented disaster, and South Asia affects the crisis, it is not responsible for its responsibility. What caused the record flood?

The immediate reason for this is the continuous rains in the last two months. "This year's rainfall was 780 percent above average," Obaid Khayyum Soleri, director of the Pakistan Institute for Sustainable Development Policy, told TIME. Pakistan's meteorological department said this year's monsoon was the country's wettest since records began in 1961, with a month left in the season. However, the melting of the glaciers also caused outrage.

A report in Vox shows that Pakistan has more than 7,200 glaciers anywhere outside the pole, and rising temperatures linked to climate change could melt many of them faster and earlier, adding water to rivers and streams already swollen by rain. This means that Pakistan, currently one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change, will become more vulnerable to flooding as the planet warms.

"We have a lot of glaciers outside the polar region that affect us," Rahman told the Associated Press. "Instead of preserving their majesty and preserving them for posterity and nature, we see them melting," he said.

According to a 2021 study, the rate of melting is increasing not only in glaciers, but also in the Himalayas. In addition, in the mountains, glacial water forms high-altitude lakes, which are often blocked by glacial ice. Vox reports that as more water escapes, these lakes expand rapidly and the ice dams burst, creating what is known as an "glacial lake break." According to the Washington Post, there are now more than 3,000 glacial lakes in northern Pakistan, some of which formed earlier this year due to extreme heat. How does this affect Pakistan?

Pakistan's armed forces rescued another 2,000 people trapped in floods on Friday, according to a Reuters report, which the country's charity warned was only a fraction of the millions affected by the floods. Ninety percent of people are still waiting for some help. The head of the Eti Charity Foundation, Faisal Eti, told reporters: "The situation is terrible, people are dying of hunger."

Etty, who has spent the past nine days in flooded areas, called on the government to lift a years-long ban on a number of international non-governmental organizations, accusing them of "anti-government activities". Pakistan's government is struggling to deal with unprecedented floods. The government says 33 million people - 15% of the country's population - have been affected. The United Nations has appealed for $160 million to help deal with what it calls an "unprecedented climate disaster" as Pakistan's navy heads inland for relief operations in coastal areas.

The military said on Friday that around 50,000 people had been evacuated since the start of the rescue operation, including 1,000 by air. The armed forces announced in a statement that over the past 24 hours, 1,991 people had been evacuated and nearly 163 tons of humanitarian aid had been distributed to flood victims.

This flood comes at a time when the country is in the midst of an economic and political crisis. Michael Kugelman, vice president of the Wilson Center's South Asia program, notes that the increase in food prices in the country could be even greater because the entire harvest will be destroyed. "The economic crisis, the lack of food security, all of these things work together to create a perfect storm that makes these recovery and rebuilding efforts really difficult," he told TIME. The IMF (IMF) warned that inflation increased by 27.3 percent in August-complete influence of unprecedented floods on food prices and other products that stimulate "social resistance and instability" in the country.

The negative effects of floods and food disorders can be found in reading inflation in September, which increases much higher than August.

 

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