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3. Complete autonomy for East Pakistan based on the previous 6-points. 4. Formation of a federal government in West Pakistan consisting of the autonomous provinces of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa & Balochistan (which had been dissolved by the Ayub Khan government under the One Unit Scheme) 5.
Floods in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed eight people in January, [2] however from June 2022, floods affected most of Pakistan, affecting around 33 million people, or 12% of the country's population. [3] Over two million houses were damaged or destroyed by flooding, [4] and over $40 billion USD worth of damage has been caused.
The Federal Flood Commission (FFC) (Urdu: ماموریہِ وفاقی سیلاب) is an agency under the Ministry of Water Resources of the Government of Pakistan, responsible for the development and maintenance of flood protection and control systems in Pakistan. [1] [2]
In 2022, downpours swelled rivers and at one point inundated one-third of Pakistan, killing 1,739 people. The floods also caused $30 billion in damage. Pakistan's monsoon season starts in June.
A 2015 analysis by the World Bank Institute estimated that approximately 3.5 million people in Bangladesh, one of the world's most climate-vulnerable countries, were at risk of annual river flooding.
These are the deadliest floods in Pakistan since 2010, when nearly 2,000 died in flooding, [21] and the deadliest in the world since the 2020 South Asian floods. [7] On 29 August, Sherry Rehman, the minister of climate change, claimed that "one-third" of the country was underwater, and there was "no dry land to pump the water out", adding that ...
The floods caused $105 billion USD of damage ($88.5 billion in India, [1] $15 billion in Sri Lanka, [2] and $1.5 billion in Pakistan [2]), making them the costliest floods in modern history, and the ninth costliest disaster of all time. In addition there were 6,511 fatalities, the most reported in a flood since Cyclone Sidr in 2007.
AHMEDABAD/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -Heavy rains battered India and Pakistan's coastal areas along the Arabian Sea, flooding cities in western India's Gujarat state and forcing thousands of people from ...