{"id":47867,"date":"2022-08-26T23:28:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/pakistan-declares-emergency-floods-monsoon-rains"},"modified":"2022-08-26T23:28:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:28:08","slug":"pakistan-declares-emergency-as-floods-hit-over-30-million-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47867","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan declares emergency as floods hit over 30 million people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say more than 900 killed and 220,000 homes destroyed in worst monsoon rains disaster for a decade<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain has pounded large areas of Pakistan as the government declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had affected more than 30 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The annual monsoon is essential for irrigating crops and replenishing lakes and dams across the Indian subcontinent, but each year it also brings a wave of destruction.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/26\/pakistan-declares-emergency-floods-monsoon-rains\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say more than 900 killed and 220,000 homes destroyed in worst monsoon rains disaster for a decadeHeavy rain has pounded large areas of Pakistan as the government declared an emergency to deal with monsoon flooding it said had affected more &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2913,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,455,313,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47868,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47867\/revisions\/47868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}