Pakistan urges world to step up against climate change

Madrid: Shazia Marri, minister for poverty alleviation and social safety and chairperson of Benazir Income Support Program (BISP), on Sunday urged the world to take some serious steps for resolving climate change issues. Addressing the 26th Socialist International Congress in Spain's Madrid, the minister said that 33 million people in Pakistan had been impacted by the devastating floods this year. On the occasion, she expressed hope that some measures would be taken seriously by the international community in the future to curb the destruction caused by climate change.