In light of the devastating statewide floods in 2022, Pakistan Peoples Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari emphasised on Wednesday that the current flooding in Punjab and climate change were crucial issues.
Bilawal emphasises climate action: According to a PPP press release, the former foreign minister Bilawal delivered his views through video link at a seminar on “The Urgency of Action: Climate Change and its Implications on Human Rights in Pakistan.”
Chairman Bilawal stated that although “we represent our party,” the shared responsibility “transcends political borders.Every person who calls Pakistan home and, in a lot of ways, every human being on the earth can relate to them.
He noted that the glaciers in the north were melting at alarming rates and the South’s lush land was turning into desert, saying “Pakistan is sadly an epicentre of the climate crisis.”
The chairman added that having access to clean water and air were fundamental human rights, not indulgences.
However, Farhatullah Babar, the president of the PPP Human Rights Cell, Senator Sherry Rehman, a former climate minister, Syeda Malaika Raza, the general secretary of the PPP Punjab, Syed Hassan Murtaza, the in-charge of the PPP Central Secretariat, Sibtul Hassan Bukhari, and attorney Shakeel Abbasi were all present at the conference.