Ali Baksh stood on the embankment and pointed across the flooded land-scape to the spot where his fields used to be. The 45-year-old farmer is sheltering in a makeshift camp only accessible by boat in the Sindh province of Pakistan along with more than 2,000 others forced to flee their homes as the floods hit.
“There was no rain a few months back and there was a severe short-age of water for crops. We prayed for rain,” he said. “But when it rained, we became homeless and our crops were destroyed. We have nothing left … just oceans on roads, on farms and submerging our homes.”
Pakistan has been battered by extremes of weather since the start of the year, with deadly heatwaves sending temperatures above 50C in the spring, followed by wildfires and droughts. But the floods that have left a
