<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Hollywood star and humanitarian Angelina Jolie has said the flood disaster in Pakistan should be a "wake-up call" for the world regarding climate change, calling for more international aid after meeting with victims.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Pakistan has been battered by unprecedented monsoon downpours that flooded a third of the country -- an area the size of the United Kingdom -- and killed nearly 1,600 people, according to the latest government figures.</div><div><br></div><div>More than seven million people have been displaced, many living in makeshift tents without protection from mosquitoes, and often with little access to clean drinking water or washing facilities.</div><div><br></div><div>"I've never seen anything like this," said Jolie, who previously visited Pakistan to meet the victims of the devastating 2010 floods and a deadly 2005 earthquake, in footage released on Thursday.</div><div><br></div><div>"I am absolutely with you in pushing the international community to do more... I think this is a real wake-up call to the world about where we are at," she told a meeting of civil and military officials in the capital Islamabad.</div><div><br></div><div>"Climate change is not only real and it's not only coming, it's very much here."</div><div><br></div><div>Jolie, who represents the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), visited southern Sindh province, one of the worst-affected areas, where she met with displaced flood victims living in camps.</div><div><br></div><div>The United Nations has warned of a "second disaster" from diseases such as dengue, malaria, cholera and diarrhoea, as well as from malnutrition.</div><div><br></div><div>"I have been speaking to people and thinking that if enough aid doesn't come, they won't be here in the next few weeks, they won't make it," said Jolie.</div><div><br></div><div>Scientists have linked the record-breaking monsoon rains to climate change. Source: NDTV</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>