'Beautiful, one-of-a-kind cities are under water:' Floods in Pakistan worry Canadians

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Hours after returning to Canada from Pakistan, a Calgary businessman said he got word floodwaters hit the same area where he had been helping people with…

Mohammad Farhan operates multiple charities and orphanages across Pakistan through his organization, House of Dreams. He said his team on the ground in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa called to tell him they had just watched a nearby hotel get inundated.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.

About 33 million people in villages, towns and cities were caught off guard by the swiftness and power of the floods. Hundreds have died.Article content “Let’s stop sleepwalking toward the destruction of our planet by climate change,” he said in a video message to an Islamabad ceremony to launch the appeal.Article content

“We got two cranes the other day and are cleaning up bigger buildings, mosques and houses that have dirt up to five to six feet,” he said.

 

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