Pakistan will seek financial aid from various institutions to support its rehabilitation in the wake of heavy monsoon rains and floods that cost the country’s economy over $4 billion, its foreign minister said on Sunday.
At least 1,033 people have died and over 33 million others were affected in Pakistan due to flash floods caused by heavier-than-usual monsoon rains that began in June. Sindh and Balochistan were among the provinces devastated by the floods.
The heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan were caused by La Nina climate conditions, which refers to cooler-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific ocean.
In a June weather forcast, the nation’s minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman had warned that Pakistan’s upcoming monsoon season would be “a part of global La Nina weather pattern,” predicting above-normal rainfall until at least August along the foothills of the Himalayas, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Gilgit Baltistan, and central parts of the Punjab region….