2022 Pakistan floods

2022 Pakistan floods.
	Satellite imagery showing a side-by-side comparison of southern Pakistan on 27 August 2021 (one year before the floods) and 27 August 2022
Date	14 June 2022 – October 2022
Location	Balochistan, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Azad Kashmir and southern parts of Punjab
Cause	Heavy monsoon rains, poor urban planning, climate change
Deaths	1,739
Non-fatal injuries	12,867
Property damage	₨ 3.2 trillion ($14.9 billion)

From 15 June to October 2022, floods in Pakistan killed 1,739 people,^[3] and caused ₨ 3.2 trillion ($14.8 billion) of damage and ₨ 3.3 trillion ($15.2 billion) of economic losses.^[4] The immediate causes of the floods were heavier than usual monsoon rains and melting glaciers^[5] that followed a severe heat wave, both of which are linked to climate change.

On 25 August 2022, Pakistan declared a state of emergency because of the flooding.^[6]

The flooding was the world's deadliest flood since the 2020 South Asian floods^[7] and described as the worst in the country's history.^[8] It was also recorded as one of the costliest natural disasters in world history.

^ Kugelman, Michael (1 September 2022). "How Bad Governance Exacerbated Pakistan's Flooding". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022.
^ Sheikh, Ali Tauqeer (4 September 2022). "Victims of Climate Change or Bad Governance?". Dawn. Retrieved 27 November 2022.
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^ "How melting glaciers contributed to floods in Pakistan". NPR. 4 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.
^ Abbas, Zaki (26 August 2022). "Pakistan declares emergency in the face of calamitous floods". Dawn. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.
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^ "Pakistan Floods 'Worst In Country's History', Says PM Sharif". Barron's. Agence France Presse. 30 August 2022. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

[1] Kugelman, Michael (1 September 2022). "How Bad Governance Exacerbated Pakistan's Flooding". Foreign Policy. Archived from the original on 2 September 2022.

[2] Sheikh, Ali Tauqeer (4 September 2022). "Victims of Climate Change or Bad Governance?". Dawn. Retrieved 27 November 2022.

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[WorldBank-4] Cite error: The named reference WorldBank was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[5] "How melting glaciers contributed to floods in Pakistan". NPR. 4 September 2022. Retrieved 5 September 2022.

[state-emergency2-6] Abbas, Zaki (26 August 2022). "Pakistan declares emergency in the face of calamitous floods". Dawn. Archived from the original on 26 August 2022. Retrieved 26 August 2022.

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[8] "Pakistan Floods 'Worst In Country's History', Says PM Sharif". Barron's. Agence France Presse. 30 August 2022. Archived from the original on 31 August 2022. Retrieved 1 September 2022.

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