Pakistan has been hit by major floods again this year. This is not the first time that annual monsoons, supercharged by climate change, have wreaked havoc in the country. Over the past fifteen years alone, this is the third time that Pakistan has experienced catastrophic flooding.

Besides loss of lives, injuries and the havoc caused to the lives of those directly hit by flooding, the indirect effects of widescale floods impact even a larger number of people. The 2022 mega-floods, for instance, adversely affected around 33 million people and caused an estimated $30 billion in economic damage. The earlier mega-floods in 2010 affected over 20 million people and caused economic losses of around $10 billion.

While the losses caused by the current floods will take some time to estimate, already thousands of villages have been evacuated. Major cities like Lahore and Sialkot have suffered serious damage too due to overflow and........

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