Pakistan not to blame for climate crisis-fuelled flooding, says PM Shehbaz Sharif

Sharif's climate change minister called the flooding a climate catastrophe' and said the south Asian nation was paying the price' for western use of fossil fuels

Pakistan is not to blame for a climate crisis-fuelled disaster that has flooded much of the country, the prime minister has said, as he made a desperate plea for international help in what he said was the toughest moment" in the nation's history.

We are suffering from it but it is not our fault at all," Shehbaz Sharif told journalists on Tuesday afternoon at a press conference where his climate change minister referred to the flooding as a climate catastrophe".