‘You wouldn’t believe the scale of destruction there,’ Sharif says. ‘It is water everywhere as far as you could see. It is just like a sea’
Parts of Pakistan seemed “like a sea,” Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Wednesday, after visiting some of the flood-hit areas that cover as much as a third of the South Asian nation, where 18 more deaths took the toll from days of rain to 1,343.
The government, which has boosted cash handouts for flood victims to 70 billion Pakistani rupees , will buy 200,000 tents to house displaced families, he added.“We will need trillions of rupees to cope with this calamity.”Many of those affected are from Sindh, where Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake is dangerously close to bursting its banks, even after having been breached in an operation that displaced 100,000 people.
Officials in Sindh expect the waters to recede in the next few days, said provincial government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab. “Our strategy right now is to be prepared for wheat cultivation as soon as the water recedes,” he added.
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