#Pakistan: Brittle, deadly, opaque, without food security for the climate change ahead. Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft.
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🗓️ 17 December 2022
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#Pakistan: Brittle, deadly, opaque, without food security for the climate change ahead.
Anatol Lieven, Quincy Institute For Responsible Statecraft.
https://news.yahoo.com/pakistan-seeks-un-help-flood-120859767.html
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| 0:40.0 | Pakistan, India, the subcontinent, the conflict of long-standing between Pakistan and Afghanistan |
| 0:49.7 | and India has these last months taken second seat to a phenomenon, an overwhelming geological |
| 0:59.3 | and meteorological phenomenon of flooding that has left half the country of Pakistan without |
| 1:05.8 | food security as I understand it. Anatole Leven is in Karachi, the very large city that |
| 1:12.1 | is the center of the business life of Pakistan. And I first go to the question of flooding. |
| 1:19.3 | Anatole, thank you very much for this. What I last understood was that the country needs |
| 1:25.1 | a great deal of outside aid, but at the same time, you observe in Karachi is the food insecurity |
| 1:31.4 | continuing. Is there dislocation in Karachi that you can see from the people who fled the |
| 1:36.6 | floods? Good day to you. |
| 1:38.6 | Hello, John. Not a great deal that's visible in Karachi. I mean, Karachi is permanently |
| 1:47.5 | growing and growing as a result of migrants from the countryside, refugees from Afghanistan. |
| 1:53.6 | So in a sense, you know, this is just an ongoing process. A lot of people are returning to |
| 2:01.0 | their homes and rebuilding. The government has quite an active reconstruction program, but |
| 2:08.4 | undoubtedly the floods have done a huge amount of economic damage and further impoverished |
| 2:14.2 | people who are already very poor. I go immediately to headlines that we have here all the way |
| 2:19.8 | in North America in these last hours about Pakistan. This is Al Jazeera reporting out |
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