Kundi urges big polluter to help Pakistan during climate related calamities.

ISLAMABAD -- Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) of Pakistan for Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Faisal Karim Kundi has urged the big polluter to help Pakistan during climate related calamities.

He was addressing the WBG Pavilion Event at the COP-27 conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, said a news release.

Addressing the occasion, the SAPM said that Pakistan has gone through one of the worst natural calamities in the form of floods and more than 40% of the country and crop fields were submerged under flood water.

Kundi informed the forum that people in the flood affected areas are living under the open sky as all houses and their villages have been devastated by floods.

He noted that such ruins were the result of climate change and global warming, therefore, it is the responsibility of big polluters to help Pakistan in these testing times.

The SAPM while highlighting the government's initiatives for social protection and poverty alleviation apprised the forum that under...