WASHINGTON: “The scenes coming out of Pakistan are heartbreaking,” said the head of a US Senate panel on South Asia as US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan assured Islamabad that Washington “will continue to stand by Pakistan during this woeful time”.
The statements, issued by their services on Thursday, followed media warnings that Pakistan was facing a flood tide of “Biblical proportions” and the transnational community mustn’t leave the country to forfend for itself in dealing with this “unknown disaster”.
At the UN headquarters in New York, Pakistan’s minister, Munir Akram, reminded the transnational community that “Pakistan’s donation to global hothouse gas emigrations is negligible, but it’s facing the deadliest consequences of the changes caused by those emigrations”.
“Moment it’s Pakistan, hereafter it could be another country,” he said in a series of interviews with colorful media outlets. “We all need to act in solidarity and find collaborative ways of how to address this empirical trouble.”
Pakistan contributes lower than 1 percent of the world’s hothouse gas emigrations, yet it’s passing some of its most severe impacts.
In Washington, Pakistan’s US Ambassador Masood Khan also underscored this point. “The cataracts are tied to global warming, and exceed once events,” said Ambassador Khan while quoting climate experts.
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A report by Axios, a US media outlet, noted that “the estimated 1 million houses destroyed in the flooding were enthralled by people who had a veritably low carbon footmark compared to the average American or European citizen”.
Advisor Sullivan also conceded that Pakistan was “passing the ruinous impacts of cataracts” and Secretary of State Antony Blinken assured Islamabad the US will continue to give “critical philanthropic backing like food, safe water, and sanctum”.
“We stand with Pakistan in this delicate time,” Mr. Blinken said in his alternate statement on cataracts this week.
before this week, the Biden administration blazoned $30 million in life-saving philanthropic backing to Pakistan days after releasing about a million bones in immediate backing.
Senator Chris Murphy, Chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on South Asia, noted that “Severe thunderstorm season this time has brought unknown flooding and latterly ruinous losses” in Pakistan.
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“Far too frequently those who are the least responsible and have the smallest coffers face the topmost impacts of the climate extremity,” he said.
“I ’ll continue covering this extremity and prompt the administration to continue furnishing aid to ensure the people of Pakistan get the support they need,” Senator Murphy added.
Andrew Freedman, a climate and energy journalist for Axios, noted that “the scale and inflexibility of this event are stunning, with the area and population affected exceeding the inflexibility of disastrous flooding seen in 2010, which bring about $10 billion”.
Quoting recent climate studies, the report advised that “back-to-back extreme rainfall events due to mortal caused global warming” could follow as “Pakistan is exhibition A” what’s coming.
