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The ongoing political turmoil in Pakistan is distracting its government and the public from the critical challenge of climate adaptation. One of the key challenges being neglected is the aftermath of last year’s August floods, which displaced nearly eight million people in Pakistan. The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre named the floods the world’s largest disaster displacement event in 10 years. But ever since April 2022, when the former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan lost a no-confidence motion, the country has seen violent face-offs and heavy-handed state action. The shift in attention has been most evident in how official periodic updates...
