{"id":47966,"date":"2022-08-30T02:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/29\/pakistan-floods-drone-footage-shows-scale-of-destruction-video"},"modified":"2022-08-30T02:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T17:52:41","slug":"pakistan-floods-drone-footage-shows-scale-of-destruction-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47966","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan floods: drone footage shows scale of destruction \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan is suffering extensive flooding after unusually heavy monsoon rains lashed large parts of the country. Flash floods fuelled by the climate crisis have affected more than 33 million people, officials have said. More than 75% of Balochistan, the country\u2019s largest and most impoverished province, has been affected by floods, and much of neighbouring Sindh province is under water. Pakistan has more glaciers \u2013 7,532 \u2013 than anywhere else outside the polar regions, making it one of the countries most exposed to extreme weather<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/29\/damage-to-main-roads-hampers-pakistan-flood-relief-effort\">Pakistan: fears for areas cut off by floods as damage to roads hampers relief efforts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/aug\/29\/pakistan-floods-drone-footage-shows-scale-of-destruction-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan is suffering extensive flooding after unusually heavy monsoon rains lashed large parts of the country. Flash floods fuelled by the climate crisis have affected more than 33 million people, officials have said. More than 75% of Balochistan, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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":[455,313,60,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47966","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47967,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47966\/revisions\/47967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}