The fury of this year’s monsoon has left vast swathes of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab in ruin, with rivers in flood, homes washed away, and hundreds of lives lost. The relief agencies may be racing against time to provide assistance, but the sheer scale of the devastation tells its own story: climate change is no longer an abstract concern for Pakistan; it is a national emergency.

If the rising death toll, destroyed livelihoods, and shattered infrastructure are not enough to jolt the sceptics........

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