Sherry Rehman, the minister of climate change, claimed on Monday that a third of the country was under water as a result of flooding brought on by record monsoon rains, which are displacing tens of millions of people across vast areas of Pakistan and resulting in hundreds of deaths so far. A crisis of “unimaginable proportions” has been brought on by the monsoon rains, according to Rehman.
As the nation struggles to deal with floods that have affected 33 million people, she told news agency AFP that “it’s just one big ocean, there’s no dry land to pump the water out.”
The Swat Valley, which is home to millions of people, is located in Pakistan’s northern Kyber Pakhtunkhwa province and has been largely cut off from the rest of the nation by destroyed infrastructure and floodwaters. Food and medicine were running out, according to locals, who also reported having limited access to electricity.
