(6 Feb 2025)
PAKISTAN SINKING CITY
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Gwadar, Pakistan, 13 January 2025
1. Various top shots of Gwadar, a town built on sand dunes and bordered by the Arabian Sea on three sides
2. Various shots of houses that were damaged or destroyed during rains in February last year
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Gwadar, Pakistan, 14 January 2025
3. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu/English) Pazeer Ahmed, Coastal Hydrologist / Deputy Director, Planning, Monitoring and Development Directorate, Irrigation Department, Government of Balochistan:
“The situation in Gwadar is no less than that of an island nation. What we witnessed in COP29 recently, where they (island nations) pointed out they don’t have enough funding. While Gwadar isn’t an island, it’s a peninsula, bordered on three sides by the Arabian Sea, but it’s a low-lying coastal area. So our situation is not less than that of island nations. In future, it’s going to get more worse.”
4. Various top shot of Gwadar’s harbour and coastline, with fishing boats visible
5. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu/ English) Pazeer Ahmed, Coastal Hydrologist / Deputy Director, Planning, Monitoring and Development Directorate, Irrigation Department, Government of Balochistan:
“In terms of climate change in Gwadar, there are heatwaves and dust storms, and other challenges. However, the biggest impacts of climate change here are drought and flooding. Flood in the sense of rise in sea level, which we have witnessed recently.“
6. Various of seagulls foraging and flying on the coastal strip
7. Various of saline water visible on the surface of government-owned land in the WAPDA (Water and Power Development Authority) House compound, with pools of salt crystals glistening in the sunshine
8. Various of residence of former local councillor Qadir Bakhsh in the Shado Band neighbourhood of Gwadar, which is flooded by contaminated groundwater seeping through the ground and into the courtyard of his home
9. Various of Qadir Baksh overseeing the drainage of water from his house, through a suction pump powered by a generator
10. SOUNDBITE : (Urdu) Qadir Baksh, Local Government Councillor:
“In the past when it rained, the water disappeared up to 10 days later. But the rain that came last year hasn’t gone. The water rises from the ground with such speed, it will reach the four walls of my home if we don’t run the generator every day to extract it.”
11. Various shot of Qadir Baksh with his family inside his house that has pools of groundwater
12. SOUNDBITE: (Urdu) Qadir Baksh, Local Government Councillor:
“Officials and experts who know about it say that it’s because of climate change but, whatever it is, we’re suffering. Whatever it is, the government should do something.”
13. Qadir Baksh’s children at his residence
14. Various of water being drained from Qadir Baksh’s residence
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Gwadar, Pakistan, 13 January 2025
15. Various of landslides in the cliffs at the popular picnic spot of Sunset Park, and rocks that have cascaded onto the shore
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Gwadar, Pakistan, 14 January 2025
10. SOUNDBITE (Urdu/English) Pazeer Ahmed, Coastal Hydrologist / Deputy Director, Planning, Monitoring and Development Directorate, Irrigation Department, Government of Balochistan:
11. Various top shots of Gwadar port
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Gwadar, Pakistan, 13 January 2025
12. Various of boats standing at the Gwadar harbour due to reduced fishing
13. Various of fishing boats in the sea
14. Fisherman drag a boat onto the shore after fishing
16. SOUNDBITE : (Urdu) Rehmat Shah, Fisherman
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