Explanation

Revealing alarming facts during a briefing to the cabinet on the climate change, Minister Sherry Rehman has said that Pakistan is the eighth most-affected country by the climate change globally and likely to be water scarce by 2025. Besides, the country is also in the grip of food, climate, water, population and environmental crisis. Terming the climate catastrophe in Pakistan a national security crisis, the minister said that the country had faced 152 extreme events in the last two decades with constant shifts in rainfall patterns, intensity and frequency.