{"id":48034,"date":"2022-08-31T18:33:57","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/aug\/31\/flooding-pakistan-britains-imperial-legacy"},"modified":"2022-08-31T18:33:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T09:33:57","slug":"flooding-has-devastated-pakistan-and-britains-imperial-legacy-has-made-it-worse-shozab-raza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48034","title":{"rendered":"Flooding has devastated Pakistan \u2013 and Britain\u2019s imperial legacy has made it worse | Shozab Raza"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colonialism and its aftereffects have left regions such as south Punjab resource-starved, poverty-stricken and deeply vulnerable to floodwaters<\/p>\n

Devastating flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 1,100 people this summer, injuring and displacing thousands more. Among Pakistan\u2019s political elite, some have claimed<\/a> that the floods are simply a natural disaster, while others blame climate breakdown<\/a>. But both groups have failed to address another crucial factor: empire.<\/p>\n

Pakistan gained its independence from the British empire in 1947, yet the reverberations of imperialism have endured. As a consequence, peripheral regions such as south Punjab, Balochistan and rural Sindh are resource-starved, exploited and poverty-stricken \u2013 factors that have grossly exacerbated the flood\u2019s disastrous effects.<\/p>\n

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Colonialism and its aftereffects have left regions such as south Punjab resource-starved, poverty-stricken and deeply vulnerable to floodwatersDevastating flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 1,100 people this summer, injuring and displacing thous…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3293,"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":[65,455,313,1203,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","category-inequality","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\/48034","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\/3293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48035,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48034\/revisions\/48035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}