Govt to help cope with climate change challenges in Gilgit-Baltistan

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Govt to help cope with climate change challenges in Gilgit-Baltistan​

SLAMABAD: The Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change, Malik Amin Aslam, on Thursday said the incumbent government has been taking all-out measures to help the Gilgit-Baltistan government to overcome the challenges of environmental degradation, solid waste management, climate change and deforestation.

While expressing the views during his meeting with GB Chief Minister Khalid Khursheed, the SAPM said the Imran-led government is aware of the challenges being faced by the climate-vulnerable GB that may cause negative fallouts for various social and economic sectors, including water, energy and agriculture.

He highlighted that over the recent years, the global warming caused glacial melting, flooding due to glacial lake outburst, riverine floods and shifting rainfall patterns have shown rising frequency and intensity that are affecting badly not only socio-economic lives of the region but the impact also goes on that far to affect those in the southern parts of the country.

Govt to help cope with climate change challenges in Gilgit-Baltistan

ISLAMABAD: The Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change, Malik Amin Aslam, on Thursday said the incumbent government has been taking all-out measures to help the Gilgit-Baltistan...

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EDITORIAL: Even as Pakistan counts around 100 deaths since the onset of the monsoon season on June 26, it is bracing for another spell of heavy rain. The Met Office has forecast widespread rain and thunderstorms through July 28, while the NDMA has warned of rising river levels, flash floods, urban flooding and landslides across large parts of the country.

From Gilgit-Baltistan, where glacial lake outburst floods have severed roads, left tourists stranded and disrupted electricity to Punjab’s inundated cities and swelling rivers, Pakistan is confronting a nationwide emergency rather than a handful of isolated weather events.

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Flooding has become a yearly occurrence and the government has no concrete measures in place to mitigate the enormous economic loss