By Aftab Bukhari, The Express TribuneOctober 11th, 2010. JACOBABAD: Floodwater might be receding from most areas in the province but the Sindh-Balochistan National Highway still stands flooded. Two months ago a massive breach developed in the Tori Bund and water rushed towards Jacobabad district, flooding almost 80 per cent of it. When the flood got […]
By Ashley Halsey III, Washington Post Staff WriterMonday, October 4, 2010; 6:20 PM The United States is saddled with a rapidly decaying and woefully underfunded transportation system that will undermine its status in the global economy unless Congress and the public embrace innovative reforms, a bipartisan panel of experts concludes in a report released Monday. […]
Pools of standing water in southern Sindh province potentially home to disease-carrying mosquitoes that breed and hatch By Declan Walsh in Islamabad, www.guardian.co.uk, Sunday 3 October 2010 22.00 BST More than two million cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country’s devastating floods, aid workers have […]
Wind-whipped flames swept through at least three Detroit neighborhoods, destroying dozens of homes, including many that were vacant, officials said. By JEFF KAROUB, Associated Press WriterWednesday, September 8, 2010 at 6:49 AM DETROIT — Wind-whipped flames swept through at least three Detroit neighborhoods, destroying dozens of homes, including many that were vacant, officials said. A […]
IANS2010-09-01 16:10:00 Islamabad: Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that his country has suffered losses of around $43 billion due to the floods that have displaced over 17 million people and killed over 1,600. The floods, which started with heavy monsoon rains in July, have affected 30 percent of agricultural land and […]
United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) 31 Aug 2010 ISLAMABAD — It only took a few minutes on board a helicopter scudding across the wasteland that is the Pakistan flood zone for WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran to understand the full extent of the crisis currently facing the country. Hectare after hectare of prime farmland […]
By TIM SULLIVAN (AP)28 August 2010 SHIKARPUR, Pakistan — Thousands of farmers have crowded this once-quiet Pakistani town. They live on the hospital’s lawn, they camp on overpasses. Their fields are destroyed, covered by billions of gallons of brown soupy floodwater. But ask those farmers about their water troubles and they’ll tell you flooding is […]
By Michael Georgy; editing by Robert Birsel and Alex RichardsonFri Aug 27, 2010 12:04pm EDT MADYAN, Pakistan (Reuters) – Shah-e-Roon doesn’t have the energy, money or support from Pakistan’s government to help Madyan recover from floods that decimated the small town nearly a month ago. He has been walking for two days with a […]
By Douglas A. McIntyreAugust 23, 2010 at 8:34 pm A city does not die when its last resident moves away. Death happens when municipalities lose the industries and vital populations that made them important cities. The economy has evolved so much since the middle of the 20th Century that many cities that were among the […]
By the CNN Wire StaffAugust 22, 2010 9:13 a.m. EDT Multan, Pakistan (CNN) — After weeks of massive flooding that killed at least 1,539 people, water is finally receding in parts of the country. But for the millions of survivors, another nightmare looms. Much of Pakistan’s economy and infrastructure has been washed away by the […]
