Pakistan authorities on Monday began an evacuation effort to move 80 000 citizens out of the path of an approaching cyclone, which is expected to bring winds of up to 120 kilometres per hour.
The cyclone is making its way across the Arabian Sea towards the coastlines of Pakistan and India, forecast to make landfall later this week.
"We will not request people but demand them to evacuate," Shah told reporters, adding that the order was being issued through social media, mosques and radio stations.A spokesperson for Shah said around 2 000 people have already been evacuated to"safe places" from the area of Shah Bandar, a fishing town nestled among mangrove deltas 45 kilometres west of India's Gujarat state.
The Pakistan Meteorological Department has warned that traditional mud and straw homes which house the poorest in Pakistan will be vulnerable to disintegration in high winds. Billboards will be removed and 70 vulnerable buildings evacuated in the city, while construction will be stopped over the entire affected area.
"Undoubtedly, these are the adverse effects of climate change," Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Twitter on Sunday.
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