{"id":48077,"date":"2022-09-01T23:48:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/appeal-for-uk-aid-as-worst-floods-in-pakistans-history-leave-6-million-in-urgent-need"},"modified":"2022-09-01T23:48:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T14:48:18","slug":"appeal-for-uk-aid-as-worst-floods-in-pakistans-history-leave-6-million-in-urgent-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48077","title":{"rendered":"Appeal for UK aid as worst floods in Pakistan\u2019s history leave 6 million in urgent need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disasters and Emergency Committee urges British public to give whatever they can<\/p>\n<p>An urgent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dec.org.uk\/?gclid=CjwKCAjwsMGYBhAEEiwAGUXJaWiqUWl0e3pnQCFyhnLg1AMSohoNkHnElYRVmVMqBKUDu5zaa7mJ4BoCVioQAvD_BwE\">appeal has been launched<\/a> by the Disasters Emergency Committee for donations in Pakistan, where at least 1,000 people have been killed by floods described as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/gallery\/2022\/aug\/30\/pakistan-floods-cause-devastation-in-pictures\">worst in the country\u2019s history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scale of these floods has caused a shocking level of destruction \u2013 crops have been swept away and livestock killed across huge swathes of the country,\u201d said the DEC\u2019s chief executive, Saleh Saeed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/01\/appeal-for-uk-aid-as-worst-floods-in-pakistans-history-leave-6-million-in-urgent-need\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disasters and Emergency Committee urges British public to give whatever they canAn urgent appeal has been launched by the Disasters Emergency Committee for donations in Pakistan, where at least 1,000 people have been killed by floods described as the w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3295,"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":[455,313,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding","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\/48077","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\/3295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48078,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48077\/revisions\/48078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}