{"id":47941,"date":"2022-08-29T14:11:26","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T05:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/pakistan-floods-plea-for-help-amid-fears-monsoon-could-put-a-third-of-country-underwater"},"modified":"2022-08-29T17:33:44","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T08:33:44","slug":"pakistan-floods-plea-for-help-amid-fears-monsoon-could-put-a-third-of-country-underwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47941","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan floods: plea for help amid fears monsoon could put a third of country underwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister urges countries and IMF to help stricken country after climate change minister speaks of climate \u2018catastrophe\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s government has appealed for international help to tackle a flooding emergency that has killed more than 1,000 people and threatens to leave a third of the country \u2013 an area roughly the size of Britain \u2013 underwater.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari said on Sunday night that floods brought on by weeks of extreme monsoonal rainfall and melting glaciers would worsen Pakistan\u2019s already dire economic situation and that financial aid was needed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/pakistan-floods-plea-for-help-amid-fears-monsoon-could-put-a-third-of-country-underwater\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign minister urges countries and IMF to help stricken country after climate change minister speaks of climate \u2018catastrophe\u2019Pakistan\u2019s government has appealed for international help to tackle a flooding emergency that has killed more than 1,000 peop&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1020,"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":[2331,65,455,313,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47941","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\/1020"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47941"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47953,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47941\/revisions\/47953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}