{"id":47994,"date":"2022-08-30T21:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/pakistan-monsoon-on-steroids-flooding-warning-antonio-guterres"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:48:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T08:48:30","slug":"pakistan-faces-monsoon-on-steroids-as-more-flood-warnings-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47994","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan not to blame for climate crisis-fuelled flooding, says PM Shehbaz Sharif"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharif\u2019s climate change minister called the flooding a \u2018climate catastrophe\u2019 and said the south Asian nation was \u2018paying the price\u2019 for western use of fossil fuels<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan is not to blame for a climate crisis-fuelled disaster that has flooded much of the country, the prime minister has said, as he made a desperate plea for international help in what he said was the \u201ctoughest moment\u201d in the nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are suffering from it but it is not our fault at all,\u201d Shehbaz Sharif told journalists on Tuesday afternoon at a press conference where his climate change minister referred to the flooding as a \u201cclimate catastrophe\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/30\/pakistan-monsoon-on-steroids-flooding-warning-antonio-guterres\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharif\u2019s climate change minister called the flooding a \u2018climate catastrophe\u2019 and said the south Asian nation was \u2018paying the price\u2019 for western use of fossil fuelsPakistan is not to blame for a climate crisis-fuelled disaster that has flooded much of t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3290,"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":[2331,65,455,313,60,61,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47994","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","category-united-nations","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\/47994","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\/3290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48036,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47994\/revisions\/48036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}