{"id":116081,"date":"2022-08-31T10:41:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-487847-2906045.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=116081"},"modified":"2022-08-31T10:41:56","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T05:11:56","slug":"pakistan-monsoon-flooding-death-toll-tops-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/2022\/08\/31\/pakistan-monsoon-flooding-death-toll-tops-1000\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan monsoon flooding death toll tops 1,000."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The death toll from monsoon\u00a0flooding in\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0since June has reached 1,033, according to figures released by the country\u2019s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA).<\/p>\n<p>The NDMA said on Sunday that 119 people had died in the past 24 hours as heavy rains continued to lash parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have affected more than 30 million people over the last few weeks, the country\u2019s climate change minister said, calling the situation a \u201cclimate-induced humanitarian disaster of epic proportions\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The military has joined the country\u2019s national and provincial authorities in responding to the\u00a0floods and\u00a0Pakistan\u2019s army chief on Saturday visited the southern province of Balochistan, which has been\u00a0hit heavily by the rains.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistani leaders have appealed to the international community for help and plan to launch an international appeal fund. The foreign affairs ministry said Turkey had sent a team to help with rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe magnitude of the calamity is bigger than estimated,\u201d said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in a tweet, after visiting flooded areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from monsoon\u00a0flooding in\u00a0Pakistan\u00a0since June has reached 1,033, according to figures released by the country\u2019s National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA). The NDMA said on Sunday that 119 people had died in the past 24 hours as heavy rains continued to lash parts of the country. Historic monsoon rains and flooding in Pakistan have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.q8india.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}