{"id":47921,"date":"2022-08-29T01:21:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-28T16:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/people-are-getting-sick-destitution-in-flood-hit-pakistan"},"modified":"2022-08-29T01:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T16:21:49","slug":"people-are-getting-sick-destitution-in-flood-hit-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47921","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People are getting sick\u2019: destitution in flood-hit Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With their homes destroyed by worst flooding in living memory, people in Jaffarabad appeal for help<\/p>\n<p>In the midst of swamps of flood water, hundreds of people who fled one of the worst-hit districts of Pakistan pitched tents on the only high ground they could find \u2013 on the raised banks of the Saifullah Magsi canal.<\/p>\n<p>They had left the Jaffarabad region of Pakistan\u2019s impoverished Balochistan province as a monsoon deluge that authorities say has claimed more than 1,000 lives since June swept away their homes and livelihoods. The Pakistani prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, visiting Jaffarabad on Sunday, was told that at least 75% of Balochistan, which covers half of Pakistan\u2019s land area, was partially or completely affected by flooding.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/28\/people-are-getting-sick-destitution-in-flood-hit-pakistan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With their homes destroyed by worst flooding in living memory, people in Jaffarabad appeal for helpIn the midst of swamps of flood water, hundreds of people who fled one of the worst-hit districts of Pakistan pitched tents on the only high ground they &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"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-47921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921","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\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47922,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47921\/revisions\/47922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}