Half of the country of 220 million inhabitants is under the waters due to the melting of the glaciers and a totally deregulated monsoon. More than 1,000 people have been killed since June.
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The largest hotel in the Kalam Valley, the New Honey Moon, which had 150 rooms, collapsed on Friday August 26 as a card castle in a few seconds. It was engulfed by the Swat river which crosses the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the Himalayas, ravaged by floods. Dozens of houses, mosques, bridges, have suffered the same fate.
Half of Pakistan is drowned under the waters. The rivers have become mud monsters that take everything in their path, buildings, houses, bridges, fields, men and women who could not flee in time. The government of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif decreed the state of emergency, Friday, August 26 and requests help from the international community. The army has been deployed. The situation is catastrophic.
We have more 1,000 dead since June. A million houses, 80,000 hectares of agricultural land have been destroyed, millions of people are homeless, without food and without drinking water. Over 800,000 cattle heads have perished. The assessment is obviously provisional. None of the four provinces has been spared, even if the Islamabad capital is currently safe from bad weather. The Minister of Climate Change, Sherry Rehman, estimates that 33 million people are affected, one resident in seven. “Pakistan crosses its eighth cycle of monsoon while normally the country knows only three to four cycles of rain”, a- she said. The government has promised an aid of 25,000 rupees (114 euros) for each affected family.
“The most urgent is to protect people”
“It’s apocalypse, never in my life, I have witnessed such a desolation, confides in the world Faisal Amin Gandapur, Minister of the Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the most affected province in recent days. We In memory of the 2010 floods, but the extent of those of this year is much more considerable. The District Dera Ismail Khan in which I am is flooded at 55 %. 200 villages have disappeared. Peasants and residents have everything Lost. “
Help hardly progress. There is only one practicable road left in this district, four have been cut, many bridges did not resist. “The most urgent is to shelter people,” continues Faisal Amin Gandapur. We are riding emergency camps, on the heights. The helicopters send food by the air. Then we will rebuild. We will give The money to the survivors so that they can build a new house. We estimate the damage at 10 billion rupees for our only region. “
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