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(27 Jan 2023)
PAKISTAN COLD WEATHER

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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khanozai, Baluchistan, Pakitsan - 22 January 2023

1. Aerial shot of Khanozai , surrounding and mountain covered with snow ++MUTE++
2. Various of streets and mud houses covered in snow
3. Ice from frozen water pipe
4. Aerial shot of a firewood selling stall ++MUTE++
5. Various of 72-year-old local resident Muhammad Aslam chopping wood
6. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) Muhammad Aslam, Resident of Khanozai:
“It is very cold. It is hard to survive in this bitter cold season, we have been buying poor quality firewood for 1000 rupees ($4) per 40 kg. We chop down the wood regularly and burn it to beat the unbearable winter season.”

7. Various of people warming themselves near a fire
8. Aerial shot of snow-covered area, sheep
9. Low angle of shepherds walking through the snow hit areas with their livestock
10. Close of sheep eating dry grass

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quetta , Pakistan - 23 January 2023

11. Various of Quetta meteorological office, official showing screen , indicating temperatures between -4 and -9 degrees Celsius
12. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Shafique Ahmed, Assistant Chief Meteorological Forecasting Office, Quetta:
“The intensity of the weather system is increasing day by day due to the heat penetrating our weather which will impact on our weather season. We will face floods, And after five years we will face drought and the heatwaves will increase in the south of Baluchistan. Simultaneously the cold season will get harder because their spells will increase.”

13. Various of the equipment installed at meteorological office to measure weather conditions

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quetta, Pakistan - 23 January 2023

14. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Mukhtar Magsi, Environmental Expert:
“We have destroyed the global system of nature because we have cut down trees, the road traffic is increasing and we have polluted the CFF system, hence we are destroying a natural system.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Quetta, Pakistan - 17 January 2023

15. Various of burning tyres, people protesting against low gas pressure UPSOUND (Urdu) “ Provide us natural gas.”
16. SOUNDBITE ( Urdu ) Bi Bi Gul , resident of Quetta city:
“Our demand from the government to provide us with gas. We are not receiving gas at our homes, our children are suffering from cold weather and becoming sick with pneumonia and other diseases, I get one salary and it is not enough to provide food, doctors fees and expensive medicines to my children at times.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kan Mehtarzai, Pakistan - 19 January 2023

17. Various of PDMA ( Provincial Disaster Management Authority ) machinery removing snow from road
18. Motorway police clearing road and traffic

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Khanozai, Baluchistan, Pakistan - 22 January 2023

19. Aerial shot of area covered with snow ++ MUTE++

LEADIN:
Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province is in the grip of severe cold with temperatures dropping to -17 degree Celsius.

People are protesting as they don't have enough fuel to keep warm.

STORYLINE:

A blanket of snow covers Khanozai, in Baluchistan.

This wintery weather is not welcome here.

The simple mud houses are not built to withstand freezing temperatures and many homes don't have a gas supply to keep the people living inside warm.

Most buy wood to burn for heat.

Even the elderly, like 72-year-old Muhammad Aslam, rely on this for fuel.

But he says it is a difficult way of life.


The mountainous towns of Khanozai , Ziarat and Kalat have been reporting the lowest freezing temperatures.









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