The country's climate change minister said on Monday that one-third of Pakistan's land has been completely submerged in historic floods. The planning minister said the reconstruction would cost $10 billion (about ¥1.4 trillion).

Devastating floods are sweeping away roads, homes and crops across the country. Many lives have been lost, and scars of loss have been carved.

"Everything is one big ocean and there's no dry land to drain the water out of," said Climate Change Minister Sherry Lemon, adding, "Literally a third of Pakistan is now under water and There never was. standards," he told AFP.

"This is a crisis of unimaginable scale," he  said, adding, "I've never seen anything like it before."

 At least 1,136 people have been killed since. Of these, 75 died within 24 to 29 hours, and the death toll is expected to rise.

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari told the BBC that one-third of the dead were children. He said that the extent of the damage is not yet known.

Officials estimate that more than 33 million people, one in seven of the country's population, have been affected by the historic floods.

This summer's rainfall was the heaviest in a decade, with the government blaming climate change.

Many villages are isolated

In northern Pakistan's Swat Valley, stormwater has washed away bridges and roads, cutting off nearby villages.

Thousands of people living in the area have been ordered to evacuate, and authorities are using helicopters to help with the evacuation, but are struggling to cope with the trapped people.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif visited the affected areas by helicopter on 28th. "Village after village was destroyed. Millions of homes were destroyed," he said.

Those who managed to evacuate are living in makeshift camps across the country.

About 2,500 people were shifted to schools in the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. One of them, Fazal Malik, told the AFP news agency: "Life here is very miserable. I feel like I'm losing my self-respect."

Apart from this state, the southern province of Sindh and the southwestern  province of Balochistan have also been  severely damaged 

Concerns about food shortages

This year's record monsoon floods rivaled Pakistan's record-breaking 2010 floods. More than 2000 people were killed at that time.

There are also growing concerns about the cost of disaster recovery. The Pakistani government is seeking funds from aid agencies, friendly countries and international donors.

"According to a very preliminary estimate it is $10 billion or more," said Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal.

He also said that almost half of the cotton crop has been washed away and vegetable and fruit fields and paddy fields have also been badly damaged. He also predicted severe food shortages in the coming weeks and months.

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said that the rescheduling of nearly $1.2 billion in loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over the next year will be of great help in economic recovery.

The loan was granted in 2019 but was suspended this year after Pakistan failed to meet the targets set by the IMF.

Against this backdrop, Pakistan received an emergency aid of $1.1 billion from the IMF on 29th. The IMF will help the country avoid defaulting on its debts.

Meanwhile, the British government announced on the 27th that it had allocated £1.5 million (about ¥243 million) for aid to Pakistan.

Queen Elizabeth said she was "deeply saddened to hear of the tragic loss of life and destruction (due to the floods)" and that "Britain stands in solidarity with Pakistan as it begins its recovery." Is"u