Damage Unimaginable: UN Chief.

KARACHI/ISLAMABAD/QUETTA -- The United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres visited several areas of the floods ravaged Pakistan on Saturday as he rounded off a two-day 'solidarity trip' aimed at raising awareness of the disaster. Record monsoon rains and glacier melt in the country's northern mountains triggered flash floods that have killed more than 1,400 people, sweeping away houses, roads, railway tracks, bridges, livestock and crops. Huge areas are inundated, and hundreds of thousands of people are forced from their homes.

The UN secretary general landed in Sindh province on Saturday, before flying over some of the worst-affected areas en route to Balochistan, another badly hit province. 'It is difficult not to feel deeply moved to hear such detailed descriptions of tragedy,' Guterres said, after landing in Sindh, according to a video released by the office of the prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif. 'Pakistan needs massive financial support. This is not a matter of generosity; it is a matter of justice.'

A video released by the information minister, Marriyum Aurangzeb, showed Guterres seated next to Sharif as they viewed flood-damaged areas from an aircraft window. 'Unimaginable,' Guterres said, surveying the damage.

In July and August, Pakistan had 391mm (15.4in) of rain, or nearly 190% more than the 30-year average. Sindh province, in the country's south, has seen 466% more rain than average.

Guterres said on Saturday that the world needed to understand the impact of climate breakdown on low-income countries. 'Humanity has been waging war on nature and nature strikes back,' he said.

'Nature strikes back in Sindh, but it was not Sindh that has made the emissions of greenhouse gases that have accelerated climate change so dramatically. There is a very unfair situation relative to the level of destruction.'

Speaking at a joint news conference along with Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at Karachi airport on Saturday, the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that Pakistan is paying the price of climate change and global community should extend massive and urgent financial support to Pakistan.

The UN chief said he cannot explain in words the magnitude of catastrophe in the flood-hit areas.

He said he had never seen climate change carnage on this scale.

He said that crops at a vast area are washed away besides loss of livestock and damage of infrastructure.

The UN Secretary General said Pakistan is making...