After endless torrents of rainfall and flash floods that have lasted for several months in Pakistan, the most recent report cites at least 1,006 deaths across the country, marking one of the deadliest monsoon seasons in past years.

There is always a cost to natural disasters. The destruction of housing infrastructure, roads, power lines, water supply systems, crops, livestock and factories all amounts to a numerical brunt that is shouldered by entire........

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