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FROM DROUGHT TO FLOODS<\/h2>\n
Earlier this year much of the nation was in the grip of a drought and heatwave, with temperatures hitting 51 degrees Celsius in Jacobabad, Sindh province.<\/p>\n
The city is now grappling with floods that have inundated homes and swept away roads and bridges.<\/p>\n
In Sukkur, about 75km away, residents struggled to make their way along muddy streets clogged with flood-borne debris.<\/p>\n
“If you had come earlier the water was this high,” 24-year-old student Aqeel Ahmed told AFP, raising his hand to his chest.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif cancelled a planned trip to Britain to oversee the flood response, and ordered the army to throw every resource into relief operations.<\/p>\n
“I have seen from the air and the devastation can’t be expressed in words,” he said on state TV after visiting Sukkur.<\/p>\n
“The towns, villages and crops are inundated by the water. I don’t think this level of destruction has taken place before.”<\/p>\n
A national fundraising appeal has been launched, with Pakistan’s military saying every commissioned officer would donate a month’s salary towards it.<\/p>\n
The worst-hit areas are Balochistan and Sindh in the south and west, but almost all of Pakistan has suffered this year.<\/p>\n
Images were circulating on social media on Friday of swollen rivers obliterating buildings and bridges built along their banks in the mountainous north.<\/p>\n
In Chaman, the western frontier town neighbouring Afghanistan, travellers had to wade through waist-high water to cross the border after a nearby dam burst, adding to the deluge brought by rain.<\/p>\n
Pakistan Railways said nearby Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, had been cut off and train services suspended after a key bridge was damaged by a flash flood.<\/p>\n
Most mobile networks and internet services were down in the province, with the country’s telecoms authority calling it “unprecedented”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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