More than 1,100 people have been killed and a third of the country has been flooded in what one government minister described as a “climate dystopia on our doorstep”. Roads and bridges have been washed away, making it harder to get aid to the more than 33 million people affected. they represent over 15 percent of the population. The recovery could cost more than £8 billion, according to Ahsan Iqbal, the planning minister. He warned of food shortages in the coming months and suggested the floods were worse than those of 2010, the deadliest in the country’s history, which killed more than 2,000 people. Officials estimate that a third of the country is submerged, including these houses in Sohbat Pur ZAHID HUSSAIN/REP A displaced family prepares breakfast in a makeshift camp in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province ABDUL MAJEED/AFP/GETTY IMAGES of South Asia
