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A person pushes a cart on a flooded highway in Sehwan, Pakistan, on Sept. 16. AKHTAR SOOMRO/Reuters Months after torrential rain and fast-melting glaciers submerged a third of Pakistan, parts of the country’s southern Sindh and Balochistan provinces still resemble an inland sea. “There are places where, as far as the eye can see, you still see water,” said Farah Naureen, Pakistan country director for aid agency Mercy Corps. The disaster has left thousands of families camped out in tents on elevated roadsides, first battling scorching summer heat with little shade – and now needing protection to deal with the winter cold, she said. But just a fifth of an $800-million UN aid appeal for the country has been covered so far. With 25,000 schools and millions of homes, plus health facilities and farm fields, needing repairs – adding up to damage estimated at $30 billion – “recovery is going to be very challenging”, Naureen said. At the COP27 UN climate summit in Egypt, a range of new effort...