As you know that the floods and rains have wrecked havoc in Pakistan.Millions of people and their property have been affected by this natural calamity. Khyber Pukhtunkhwa is the worst stricken Province in Pakistan where this flood has been recorded as the harshest ever in the history of KP while Punjab is also severly hit [ Read More ]
2 August 2010 – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun distributing food to more than 35,000 families affected by the worst floods northwest Pakistan has seen in decades, which have affected some one million people in the area. According to media reports, more than 1,000 people have died in the flooding, unleashed [ Read More ]
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THE ‘FLOOD OF THE CENTURY’ UNICEF is responding to the biggest flood Pakistan has seen in 100 years. One-fifth of the country is under water and over 15 million people affected, half of whom are children in critical need of our help. With floodwaters still spreading, whole towns evacuated and more rains expected, the potential [ Read More ]
Pakistan is continuing to evacuate towns and villages since the worst floods inside the country’s historical past spread to other locations. The floods first struck the north region and are now gushing south. 16-hundred individuals have been completely killed inside disaster and 12-million others affected. The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund says they are [ Read More ]
Donations have been sluggish to the Pakistan floods appeals, as they were back in 2005 when the part of Kashmir the country administers was torn apart by an earthquake. The BBC News website asked some experts to comment on possible reasons why. Donor fatigue Dr Marie Lall, Pakistan expert at the Royal Institute of International [ Read More ]
The immediate priority is to deliver aid to those most in need The floods in Pakistan continue to roll south towards the sea, leaving behind a trail of destruction, the magnitude of which is still not fully clear. The government has asked the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank to carry out damage assessments [ Read More ]
Three weeks after the start of the floods in Pakistan, a fifth of the country is under water. More international aid is now reaching the country – but the world’s media finds it hard to stop talking about terrorism. Many Pakistanis who have not been directly affected by the floods ask each other this question: [ Read More ]
Allah Rakhi was sitting quietly on a rush mat under a tree, getting what shade she could from the blistering sun in the Pakistani city of Sukkur. She was surrounded by noise and pressing people and just a few feet from passing traffic. She was a young woman and gazed at me distantly as we [ Read More ]
Thousands of Pakistanis are fleeing their homes in southern coastal areas as floods sweep down from the north. Some 200,000 people have been evacuated in the Thatta area of Sindh province, where dozens of villages are submerged. In the north, workers have begun clearing up as the floods recede. The UN has appealed for more [ Read More ]
