Journalism of Courage
A Pakistani boy sits under his stall in a flooded area on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan on August 27. Officials say flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed over 1,000 people and displaced thousands more since mid-June. (AP)
Displaced people carry belongings they salvaged from their flood-hit homes as they wade through a flooded area in Jaffarabad, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province, Saturday. (AP)
Army troops evacuate people from a flood-hit area in Rajanpur, district of Punjab, Pakistan on Saturday. (AP)
Flood affected people seen in a long queue with utensils to get food, distribute by Pakistani Army troops in a flood-hit area in Rajanpur, district of Punjab. (AP)
Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Climate Change, tweeted updated data from the country’s National Disaster Management Authority that said 33 million people — almost 15% of Pakistan’s population — had been affected and 1,041 had been killed in the floods until August 27. (AP)
Pakistan struggles during the June-August monsoon season every year, but 2022 has been especially bad. The rainfall usually begins only in July, but this year, it started raining heavily in June itself, triggering floods. Almost 300 people had been killed between late June and mid-July. (AP)
Pakistan Meteorological Department data for the period August 1-26 showed Pakistan as a whole received 176.8 mm of rain, a deviation of 251% from the normal of 50.4 mm for this period. (AP)
Pakistan is estimated to have lost almost 10,000 lives and losses of $4 billion as a result of climate-related disasters between 1998 and 2018. Other most-at-risk Asian countries in the Index are Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the Philippines. (AP)
