Ayisha Siddiqa On The Floods In Pakistan: “A World Ended”

<i>Homes were flooded. People were displaced. Farmers are committing suicide. That is an end of a world."</i> Ayisha Siddiqa is from a tribal community in northern Pakistan. Last year her country endured life-threatening heatwaves, followed by flooding that affected a third of the country. <i>In 60 years we have not experienced flooding the way that it happened. But in order to understand that, you have to go back a little bit. Last year, Pakistan endured some of the highest temperatures in the past century. Parts of the country were at 52˚C.</i> The floods in Pakistan displaced 33 million people and unleashed a series of compounding disasters. Watch the video to learn more.