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#Pakistan: Floods, bad water and climate leave tens of millions without food security into the future. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute.

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🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#Pakistan: Floods, bad water and climate leave tens of millions without food security into the future. Bill Roggio, FDD. Husain Haqqani, Hudson Institute..
https://www.dawn.com/news/1733507/six-months-after-floods146m-people-in-pakistan-need-food-support-warns-irc

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Six months since extreme flooding submerged one-third of Pakistan, five million people remain living in flooded areas.

1:05.0

Food insecurity and malnutrition across the country is intensified.

1:09.0

The big number they're using here is an estimated 14.6 million people are in need of food assistance, including 8.6 who are experiencing extreme levels of food insecurity.

1:20.0

The numbers are overwhelming, Mr. Ambassador, and you've talked about this for months since the flooding took hold.

1:27.0

The driver here seems to be a severe change in climate, or is this something that Pakistan has been through before? Thank you.

1:36.0

It is certainly a change in climate, and Pakistan has gone to the international community, staying we deserve to be helped,

1:46.0

because the climate changes are not all of our own making.

1:51.0

But that has fallen on deaf ears.

1:53.0

The international support that has flown into Pakistan is much less this time around.

1:57.0

In 2010 when Pakistan had major flooding, there was expectation that Pakistan was going to help the United States in Afghanistan,

2:06.0

so the Americans were generous, America has allies were generous.

2:10.0

Right now almost every country in the world has economic problems resulting from sort of post-COVID economic trauma, and there's a lot less international help available.

2:22.0

You've reeled off the numbers of people who are directly affected, but even those who can manage to put food on the table are having to struggle very badly.

2:31.0

Pakistan's rupee is in free fall.

2:34.0

The government has attated and took too long to cut a deal with the IMF to get some assistance, and then Pakistan is heavily indebted to China, and the Chinese are not providing debt relief.

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