The United Nations children’s agency on Friday warned that a year on from Pakistan’s devastating floods, an estimated 4 million children continue to need humanitarian assistance and access to essential services as a shortage of funds remains a hurdle in recovery.
Miftah Ismail, Pakistan's finance minister, taking it to Twitter on Sunday (September 25), announced his resignation. Ismail, in his tweet, said that in meeting with Mian Nawaz Sharif and the prime minister, he has already "verbally" resigned as the finance minister for the South Asian country and will be submitting a formal resignation once he reaches Pakistan.
Pakistan's farmers are still counting their losses from the devastating floods that have put a third of the country under water, but the long-term impact is already clear.
Pakistan Floods: Pakistan's armed forces have rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, in a disaster blamed on climate change that has swamped about a third of the south Asian nation and is still growing.