‘High-income countries bear responsibility to help Pakistan’

Not much has changed since the 2010 floods that affected the poorest of the poor in Pakistan.

Despite ample warnings by the country's meteorological department this year, federal and provincial disaster management authorities did not take rapid enough measures, said a comment published in The Lancet.

The global recognition and response to the crisis was initially also slow and uncoordinated, observed authors including Professor Zulfiqar A Bhutta, founding director of the Institute for Global Health and Development at the Aga Khan University, and Co-Director of the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health.

High-income countries have a major responsibility to help address the climate emergency that is affecting Pakistan. This is not external assistance or charity, it is climate justice, said the authors.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 29^th, 2022.