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Pakistan heatwave kills 600 as anger focuses on power cuts

Pakistan has called in the army to help victims of a four-day heatwave that has claimed at least 600 lives in the south.

The surge in temperatures to 46C — the highest in recent memory — appears to confirm warnings that climate change is upsetting weather patterns across south Asia, experts say.

A senior government official in Karachi told the FT on Tuesday night that the death toll was expected to rise, “as there are reports of people who were taken to private clinics where they died”.

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