Aid agencies are warning outbreaks of disease pose a serious new risk to victims of Pakistan’s worst flooding, as United Nations chief Ban Ki-Moon announces he is to visit the country this weekend. Monsoons have engulfed Pakistan’s Indus river basin, killing more than 1,600 people and forcing two million from their homes. A further 14 [ Read More ]
The United Nations has established more than a thousand health clinics across Pakistan in the wake of widespread flooding, a U.N. official said. ”Almost 1,200 mobile health clinics are operating across Pakistan,” said Maurizio Giuliano with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. “For many people, this is the only way to receive health care.” [ Read More ]
More angry flood victims in southern Pakistan have turned against the country’s government, looting a convoy loaded with supplies. Residents brandishing long sticks and chanting “shame on the government” ripped supplies out of a vehicle loaded with food Wednesday in the city of Sukkur in Sindh province. One man said they had no choice because [ Read More ]
The international relief effort to help victims of the devastating floods in Pakistan is increasing. The U.S. is donating $55 million, along with relief supplies and assistance. But help has been slow in reaching millions of people affected by the floods. And now there are concerns among U.S. officials that hard-line Islamist groups are capitalizing [ Read More ]
The international response to Pakistan’s flood emergency has been sluggish and ungenerous compared with relief efforts after previous disasters, a leading aid agency said today as the UN warned that its emergency workers were in danger of being overwhelmed by the scale of the crisis. Oxfam said the UN’s financial tracking system showed that as [ Read More ]
The Indus River in southern Pakistan has breached flood defences, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people. The floodwaters have burst their banks near the southern city of Thatta. Pakistani government officials have ordered the evacuation of more than 300,000 residents. The roads leading out of the city have been congested with trucks, [ Read More ]
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 ]
[caption id="attachment_130" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia charts his visit to some of Pakistan's most devastated flood zones"]
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 ]
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 ]
