{"id":38369,"date":"2025-10-01T15:41:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=38369"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:41:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:41:39","slug":"us-lawmakers-ask-for-members-briefing-on-devastating-floods-in-india-and-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/38369","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers ask for members briefing on devastating floods in India and Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: US Congressman and Pakistan Caucus Chair Tom Suozzi has written a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the devastation caused by floods in Pakistan and India, and called for a briefing on ongoing recovery efforts for the flood-affected region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tom Suozzi said that there is a need to work together in the current situation. Congressman Tom Suozzi said in a video statement that both Pakistan and India are currently facing the worst floods, while climate change and natural disasters have no geographical borders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday I released my letter with my co-chair Congressman Jack Bergman (R-MI) and Co-Chairs of the India Caucus Ro Khanna (D-CA) and Rich McCormick (R-GA), to Secretary of State Rubio asking for a Members briefing on the ongoing recovery efforts following the floods in India and Pakistan,\u201d Tom Suozzi said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that he and his co-chair Jack Bergman have sent a written letter to Secretary of State Rubio that thousands of people have died, injured and millions have been displaced due to floods in Pakistan and India.<\/p>\n<p>He said that crops have been destroyed and livestock have been killed due to the flood disaster, and the current situation is deplorable.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Suozzi said that the Kartarpur Gurdwara in Pakistan is a place for which border cooperation is established between Pakistan and India, and thousands of Sikh pilgrims cross the border and come to Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Suozzi said that climate change and floods cannot be stopped by man-made geographical borders, so it is important that everyone works together in the current situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNatural disasters don\u2019t discriminate based on borders or political disputes. We must move past our differences and work together to help our friends in India and Pakistan,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He expressed hope that this powerful display of unity would inspire more leaders to work together for the common good for this devastated region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: US Congressman and Pakistan Caucus Chair Tom Suozzi has written a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the devastation caused by floods in Pakistan and India, and called for a briefing on ongoing recovery efforts for the flood-affected region. Tom Suozzi said that there is a need to work together in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,1469,31,32,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-new-york","category-news","category-pakistan","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38370,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38369\/revisions\/38370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}