ISLAMABAD: On Thursday, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie visited the National Flood Response Coordination Center (NFRCC) while she was in Pakistan to extend her support for the flood victims.
The humanitarian activist arrived in Pakistan on September 20 to draw attention to the extensive damage caused by the recent catastrophic floods, which submerged about a third of the nation.
Deputy Chairman NFRCC Ahsan Iqbal welcomed Jolie and thanked her for visiting Pakistan during the most catastrophic floods in the history of Pakistan.
The Hollywood actress, who serves as a special UN ambassador for refugees and has previously visited Pakistan as a special UN envoy following fatal earthquakes in 2005 and flooding in 2010, was given a briefing on flood response and current measures.
Jolie said she was moved to tears when she visited flood victims during her visit to Dadu, Sindh province, yesterday. She declared that she was with the victims of the floods and that she would use her influence to inform people about the world’s “magnitude of destruction these climate changes have done and the life-saving care they require.”
The Pakistani Army, which was engaged in nonstop rescue efforts, impressed the US star.
The Pakistan Army is providing all the humanitarian efforts I have observed, Jolie remarked, adding that the Army personnel were saving lives.
However, she asserted that those whose lives had been rescued were still not secure. The world is unaware of the harm she had witnessed, she insisted.
She believed that if assistance from the outside world didn’t arrive within the following two weeks, these individuals wouldn’t be able to survive. She claimed she had never witnessed such extensive destruction in her life. She claimed that the affected individuals urgently required food, housing, and medical care.
Last time when I came here, I found Pakistanis hosting Afghan people, but today they have been confronting themselves with an enormous natural calamity, Jolie said urging the world to ‘do more’ to help the Pakistan flood affectees.
As this is a question of millions of people’s lives and deaths, the world must be aware of the situation in Pakistan, she continued.
She lamented the fact that the nations most at fault for climate change were also the ones suffering the most from it.
