{"id":6634,"date":"2010-08-18T14:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2011-01-05T15:23:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T20:23:31","slug":"pakistan-floods-continue-devastation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/08\/18\/pakistan-floods-continue-devastation\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan floods continue devastation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6635\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/08\/Pakistan-floods-2010-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Pakistan floods 2010\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" \/>Two weeks into the crisis, slow-moving floods continue to <a title=\"devastate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/19\/world\/asia\/19nations.html?_r=1&amp;hp\" target=\"_blank\">devastate<\/a> vast swaths of Pakistan.\u00a0 Yet the\u00a0floods &#8211; which already haveclaimed some 1,500 lives &#8211; has failed to yield the global aid response of previous natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 International relations Professor <a title=\"Adil Najam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ir\/faculty\/najam.html\" target=\"_blank\">Adil Najam<\/a>, a Pakistani who is director of the <a title=\"Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardee\/frederick-s-pardee-center-for-the-study-of-the-longer-range-future\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer Range Future<\/a>, warns in an <em>International Herald Tribune<\/em> opinion<a title=\"piece\" href=\"http:\/\/tribune.com.pk\/story\/40218\/the-cyclone-that-broke-pakistan\u2019s-back\/\" target=\"_blank\"> piece <\/a>and a WBUR <a title=\"interview\" href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/aFCj0d\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> that officials in Pakistan should heed the lessons of history &#8211; Cyclone Bhola in 1970 was the tipping point that led to the\u00a0break-up of the country and the creation of the nation of Bangladesh.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;There is a reason why disasters require national solidarity. Without it, they can become even more disastrous. Deeply buried fissures in the social fabric can burst forth in volcanic anger. As we look around at the political, policy and citizen response to the current floods, one sees too many who wish to turn disaster into a political opportunity. Those who do would be well advised to remember Bhola.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Adil Najam, 617-353-4002, <a href=\"mailto:anajam@bu.edu\">anajam@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks into the crisis, slow-moving floods continue to devastate vast swaths of Pakistan.\u00a0 Yet the\u00a0floods &#8211; which already haveclaimed some 1,500 lives &#8211; has failed to yield the global aid response of previous natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina.\u00a0 International relations Professor Adil Najam, a Pakistani who is director of the Pardee Center for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6634"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7555,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6634\/revisions\/7555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}