{"id":48431,"date":"2022-09-13T09:59:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T00:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/pakistan-rushes-to-protect-key-power-station-as-flood-threat-rises"},"modified":"2022-09-13T09:59:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T00:59:26","slug":"pakistan-rushes-to-protect-key-power-station-as-flood-threat-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48431","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan rushes to protect key power station as flood threat rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army working to protect electricity station that serves millions of residents in Sindh province, with more rain forecast this week <\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Pakistan are scrambling to protect a vital power station supplying electricity to millions of people against a growing threat of flooding, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Floods from record monsoon rains and glacial melt in the mountainous north have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/06\/we-screamed-our-hearts-out-for-help-homeless-escape-pakistan-floods\">affected 33 million people and killed almost 1,400<\/a>, washing away homes, roads, railways, livestock and crops, in damage estimated at $30bn.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/13\/pakistan-rushes-to-protect-key-power-station-as-flood-threat-rises\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army working to protect electricity station that serves millions of residents in Sindh province, with more rain forecast this week Authorities in Pakistan are scrambling to protect a vital power station supplying electricity to millions of people again&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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":[455,60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extreme-weather","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\/48431","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48431\/revisions\/48432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}