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Pakistan not to blame for climate crisis-fuelled flooding, says PM Shehbaz Sharif

Pakistan not to blame for climate crisis-fuelled flooding, says PM Shehbaz Sharif Sharif’s climate change minister called the flooding a ‘climate catastrophe’ and said the south Asian nation was ‘paying the price’ for western use of fossil fuels 01:27 Guterres: Pakistani people facing a 'monsoon on steroids' – video Shah Meer Baloch  in Islamabad and  Damian Carrington Tue 30 Aug 2022 13.18 BST Pakistan is not to blame for a climate crisis-fuelled disaster that has flooded much of the country, the prime minister has said, as he made a desperate plea for international help in what he said was the “toughest moment” in the nation’s history. “We are suffering from it but it is not our fault at all,” Shehbaz Sharif told journalists on Tuesday afternoon at a press conference where his climate change minister referred to the flooding as a “climate catastrophe”. “We are dealing with a situation I have not seen in my life,” Sharif said. “More than one million houses are damaged or dest...