Sadiq Sanjrani seeks IPU's support to include Pakistan floods as agenda item.

ISLAMABAD -- Chairman Senate Muhammad Sadiq Sanjrani has proposed to the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) to include Pakistan's recent crisis situation arising out of the devastating floods as emergency agenda item in the upcoming plenary of the union. The event is scheduled to be held in Kigali, Rwanda, in the month of October this year. The chairman Senate officially wrote a letter to the President IPU on September 12, saying that Pakistan greatly values the role of union as a conduit of multilateral parliamentary interactions.

'Therefore, it is high time to come forward and help Pakistan with relief assistance, further coming up with a mechanism to compensate the lowest contributors to climate change who are currently facing its brunt.'

Sanjrani also brought the IPU President's attention towards the recent flood which has caused immense human suffering and loss of 1400 lives, left one-third of the country under water, destroyed 1.2 million homes, and affected 33 million people in total. He also cautioned about the threat of climate change. 'The human suffering as a result is obvious and un-parallel. Climate change is now reversing the process of human development by...

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