August 8, 2011
Photo gallery: Pakistan floods, one year later
Caption by Paula Nelson
5 August 2011 Devastating floods, driven by unprecedented monsoon rains, began late in July 2010, leaving one-fifth of Pakistan submerged. The rains in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and Balochistan regions of Pakistan directly affected 20 million people mostly by destruction of property, livelihood and infrastructure. It left 2,000 people dead and 11 million homeless. In this post, we revisit some of those affected as the monsoon season approaches the region again. The last five images by Reuters photographer Adrees Latif show us his subjects almost one year later, as he brought them back to the place where he photographed them during the 2010 flooding.