Pakistan faces existential threat from climate change and population growth

Time is running out to implement decisive change

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2022-09-15 floods

Residents stand in a boat as they arrive from flooded areas following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan, Pakistan, on Sept. 15, 2022 © Reuters

Farhan Bokhari is an Islamabad-based foreign correspondent who writes on Pakistan and the surrounding region.

‘When hardline militants hijacked a train this month in Pakistan's western Baluchistan province, Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb in a meeting with a United Nations official renewed his warning over population growth and climate change posing an "existential threat" to the country’.

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