Ayisha Siddiqa On The Floods In Pakistan: “A World Ended”
Homes were flooded. People were displaced. Farmers are committing suicide. That is an end of a world." Ayisha Siddiqa is from a tribal community in northern Pakistan. Last year her country endured life-threatening heatwaves, followed by flooding that affected a third of the country. In 60 years we have not experienced flooding the way that it happened. But in order to understand that, you have to go back a little bit. Last year, Pakistan endured some of the highest temperatures in the past century. Parts of the country were at 52˚C. The floods in Pakistan displaced 33 million people and unleashed a series of compounding disasters. Watch the video to learn more.
0 seconds of 4 minutes, 17 secondsVolume 90%
Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts
Keyboard Shortcuts
Play/PauseSPACE
Increase Volume
Decrease Volume
Seek Forward
Seek Backward
Captions On/Offc
Fullscreen/Exit Fullscreenf
Mute/Unmutem
Seek %0-9
00:25
03:52
04:17
 

Ayisha Siddiqa On The Floods In Pakistan: “A World Ended”

Share: