United Nations: US President Joe Biden has said that the international community should come forward and extend a helping hand to Pakistan which was hit hard by devastating flood recently.
“We all know we’re already living in a climate crisis. No one seems to doubt it after this past year. We meet – we meet – as we meet, much of Pakistan is still underwater; it needs help,” Biden said in his address to the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday.
The President in his address asked the world to help the inundated country where 1,576 persons have died and thousands of others have been injured since June 14.
A third of Pakistan, which is facing its worst floods in the past 30 years, is submerged in water, affecting 33 million, sweeping away homes, crops, bridges, roads, and livestock, and causing an estimated USD 30 billion of damage.
“Families are facing impossible choices, choosing which child to feed and wondering whether they’ll survive. This is the human cost of climate change. And it’s growing, not lessening,” said Biden in the presence of Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
