Resilient rebuilding will need billions more: Sherry Rehman.

ISLAMABAD -- Federal Minister for Climate Change Senator Sherry Rehman on Friday said resilient rebuildAing will need billions more, as cascading climate events ocAcurred one after the other since the start of the year.

'We are still receiving new data as the assessments keep coming in of 1,508 people losAing their lives and more than 12,000 are injured,' said the minister, in a meeting with JapAanese Ambassador to Pakistan Mitsuhiro Wada. The minister apprised him of the current relief efforts, the devastation wreaked by floods throughout the country and the situation of assistance required for recovAery, reconstruction for the flood affected areas and population.

'Over 300 bridges have been torn apart and nearly 13,000 km of roads have been severely damaged, cutting off access to the areas drowned in floodwaAters,' she said, adding that inAstant rescue and humanitarian relief has become an urgent task, as those who have survived canAnot find dry land to pitch their tents. She said spread of diseasAes like cholera, dengue and othAers will exacerbate the health crisis amongst the affected population as 33 million people have been impacted severely. Mitsuhiro Wada expressed...