FROM DROUGHT TO FLOODS
Earlier this year much of the nation was in the grip of a drought plus heatwave, with temps hitting 51 degrees Celsius in Jacobabad, Sindh province.
The city is now grappling with floods that have inundated homes plus swept away highways and bridges.
In Sukkur, regarding 75km away, occupants struggled to make their way along muddy streets clogged with flood-borne debris.
“If you had come earlier the water has been this high, ” 24-year-old student Aqeel Ahmed told AFP, raising his hand to his chest.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif terminated a planned trip to Britain to supervise the flood reaction, and ordered the particular army to toss every resource directly into relief operations.
“I have seen in the air and the devastation can’t be expressed in words, ” this individual said on state TV after visiting Sukkur.
“The towns, villages and crops are inundated by the water. We don’t think this level of destruction has taken place before. ”
A national fundraising attractiveness has been launched, along with Pakistan’s military saying every commissioned officer would donate a month’s salary in the direction of it.
The worst-hit areas are usually Balochistan and Sindh in the south plus west, but almost all of Pakistan has suffered this year.
Images had been circulating on social networking on Friday of swollen rivers obliterating buildings and connections built along their own banks in the tremendous mountain north.
Within Chaman, the traditional western frontier town neighbouring Afghanistan, travellers needed to wade through waist-high water to mix the border following a nearby dam rush, adding to the deluge brought by rain.
Pakistan Railways stated nearby Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, had been cut off and train services suspended after a key bridge was damaged by a flash flood.
Most mobile networks and internet providers were down in the province, with the nation’s telecoms authority contacting it “unprecedented”.