After touring flood-affected districts, Pakistan’s Prime Minister declared that the “calamity’s enormity” was more than anticipated.

Shehbaz Sharif was speaking from Sindh Province, where August rainfall has been approximately eight times more than usual.

Since June, Floods have killed almost 1,000 people in Pakistan, uprooted hundreds more, and impacted millions more.

Every village the BBC passed through in Sindh included displaced persons.

Although the extent of the destruction in the province is still not entirely realized, the locals called it the biggest calamity they had ever endured.

In Pakistan, flooding is not unusual, but locals claimed that these rains were unlike anything they had ever experienced. They were “floods of epic proportions,” according to one local authority.

Numerous thousand mud houses have submerged near Larkana. Treetops are the only thing visible for miles. Thatched rooftops may be seen emerging from beneath the water when the water level is slightly lower.

People in one community are starving to death. In another, several kids have been ill with waterborne illnesses.

Numerous people rushed up to the mobile truck as soon as it stopped. Youngsters walked toward the lengthy line while pulling other children behind them.

One 12-year-old girl said she and her younger sister had gone a day without eating.

The girl responded, “No food has arrived here, but my sister is ill; she has been throwing up.” I’m hoping they can assist.

Every town was able to see the distress. People went to the windows of passing vehicles to call out for assistance.

Hundreds of people have gathered on one of the main routes leading out of Sukkur.

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Many of them traveled by foot from outlying villages, despite being promised that assistance would be more readily available in cities. There is not much of a change, though.

According to PM Sharif on Friday, about 15% of the country’s population, or 33 million people, were affected by the floods.

He said that the damages brought on by this season’s floods were equivalent to those allegedly inflicted by the greatest floods ever recorded in 2010–2011. As a result, the nation has requested further foreign assistance.

Local authorities in Sindh acknowledge that they are struggling yet don’t give up despite this.

According to the province administration, this is a “climate change disaster,” Pakistan’s citizens, particularly those living in disadvantaged neighborhoods, have been the most adversely impacted.

The problems won’t be solved quickly since there isn’t enough time for the water to recede quickly enough for any reconstruction to take place on the saturated acres of land.

The residents have no choice but to wait—wait for the rain to stop, for the flood to recede, and for these types of towns to receive additional funding.

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