{"id":47905,"date":"2022-08-28T18:18:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T09:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/pakistans-south-braces-for-deluge-as-death-toll-from-floods-tops-1000"},"modified":"2022-08-28T18:18:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T09:18:07","slug":"pakistan-declares-floods-a-climate-catastrophe-as-death-toll-tops-1000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47905","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan declares floods a \u2018climate catastrophe\u2019 as death toll tops 1,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flash flooding from \u2018monster monsoon\u2019 washes away villages and crops and leaves thousands homeless<\/p>\n<p>Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan have passed 1,000 since mid-June, officials have said, as a minister called the country\u2019s deadly monsoon season \u201ca serious climate catastrophe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Flash flooding from the heavy rains has washed away villages and crops as soldiers and rescue workers have evacuated stranded residents to the safety of relief camps and provided food to thousands of displaced people.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/pakistans-south-braces-for-deluge-as-death-toll-from-floods-tops-1000\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flash flooding from \u2018monster monsoon\u2019 washes away villages and crops and leaves thousands homelessDeaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan have passed 1,000 since mid-June, officials have said, as a minister called the country\u2019s deadly monsoon seaso&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/47905","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47923,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47905\/revisions\/47923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}