Pakistan, Under Water

<p>A few weeks into this year’s monsoon season in Pakistan, it became clear that the rains were unlike anything the country had experienced in a long time.</p><p>The resulting once-in-a-generation flood has marooned entire villages and killed 1,500 people, leaving a trail of destruction, starvation and disease.</p><p>Guest: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/christina-goldbaum?smid=pc-thedaily">Christina Goldbaum</a>, an Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent for The New York Times.</p><p>Background reading: </p><ul><li>The flooding<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/11/world/asia/pakistan-floods-food-crisis.html"> has crippled Pakistan’s agricultural sector</a>, threatening a food crisis and dealing another critical blow to a country already in the economic doldrums.</li><li>Farm laborers are scrambling to salvage whatever they can from the battered remains of their cotton and rice harvests.<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/01/world/asia/pakistan-flood-farmers.html"> It is desperate work.</a></li><li>More than 33 million people have been displaced, with vast areas of Pakistan<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/world/asia/pakistan-floods.html"> likely to take months to dry out</a>.</li></ul><p>For more information on today’s episode, visit <a href="http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily">nytimes.com/thedaily</a>. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday. </p>