Pakistan's Recurring Flood Disaster: Children Affected the Most

Millions of Pakistanis continue to live in flood-prone areas despite the devastating 2022 floods that killed 1,737 people. Heavy rainfall since July has resulted in 300 deaths, including 150 children, and displaced thousands. Charities are providing aid, but the government's response remains inadequate amid reconstruction delays.

Millions of people in Pakistan continue to reside in flood-prone areas, demonstrating a lack of lessons learned from the 2022 floods that claimed 1,737 lives. Since July, heavy rainfall has killed 300 people, half of them children.

The charity Save the Children revealed that floods and heavy rains have claimed over 150 young lives since the monsoon season began, displacing thousands and injuring 200 more.

In Sindh province, floods have ravaged cotton crops and livestock, further straining the livelihoods of farmers. Aid organizations, meanwhile, criticize the government's slow reconstruction efforts, hindered by unfulfilled international pledges of $9 billion.

(With inputs from agencies.)