By Staff WritersBangkok (AFP) Nov 2, 2010 Thailand battled Tuesday to rescue thousands of people stranded in their homes after flash floods – several metres deep in places – swept through a southern city, cutting power and communications. Heavy flooding has already killed more than 100 people around the country since October 10 in what […]
By Nasir Jaffry (AFP)29 October 2010 ISLAMABAD — International aid agency Oxfam warned Friday that three months into Pakistan’s unprecedented flood crisis funds were drying up, putting millions at risk with swathes of farmland still under water. The stark warning came as the United Nations refugee agency said thousands of people displaced by the floods […]
Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC)26 Oct 2010 Three months after floods began in Pakistan the DEC is extremely concerned that 99 cases of cholera from across the flood-affected areas of the country have now been publically confirmed for the first time. The World Health Organisation has announced today (26.10.10) that it was informed by the Pakistan […]
MSH/ZHD/HRFSun Oct 24, 2010 6:29AM More than 7 millions are still without shelter in Pakistan as water-borne diseases and nutrition are still a grave concern for millions of the country’s flood victims after the July-August flooding, a Press TV correspondent said in a report on Sunday. This is while the United Nations has launched several […]
By Haider Ali Hussein MullickBest Defense chief Pakistan correspondent Monday, October 25, 2010 – 10:53 AM I just got back from my third trip to Pakistan this year, where I examined the scope and scale of its counterinsurgency strategy and al Qaeda’s response. The bottom line is that al Qaeda’s big plans for world dominance […]
The Nation of PakistanPublished: October 24, 2010 NEW YORK – The United States is pressuring Pakistan to allow more CIA officers into the country to expand US secret operations aimed at eliminating militant havens near the Afghan border, a prominent American newspaper reported Saturday. “The US asked Pakistan in recent weeks to allow additional Central […]
By Karin BrulliardSaturday, September 11, 2010 IN KARACHI, PAKISTAN Even in the best of times, Pakistan is a tenuous federation riven by regional, ethnic, sectarian and class rivalries. These are not the best of times. The South Asian nation is struggling to cope with cataclysmic floods that inundated every province, destroying infrastructure and leaving millions […]
By Megha Sandhu, TNNOct 23, 2010, 03.57am IST LEH: As an unforgiving winter waits to descend on the mountainous desert of Ladakh, its people face the grim possibility of spending the bitter months without a proper roof on their heads. Having suffered due to the August cloudburst, residents of Leh’s many villages have been banking […]
By Daniel SellenWed, 2010-10-20 12:26 I’ve written before about floods in Niger and Abidjan, but these experiences left me poorly prepared for what I saw in Benin a few days ago. Half the country is under water, and it’s still raining. We recently received a request from the President of Benin to assist with recent […]
ARACHI, 20 October 2010 (IRIN) – An outbreak of dengue fever has hit the Pakistani coastal city of Karachi, with five reported deaths out of 1,000 confirmed cases, triggering a run on shops selling mosquito nets. “People get very irritated when we tell them we have run out; some are quite desperate,” said Sadiq Hameed, […]
