By Saad Sarfraz Sheikh October 2, 2010 Beads of sweat drip down Irfanullah’s face as he clutches the weak branches of a date tree. It seems to be a safe place to settle into until Mother Nature’s rampage runs its course… Barely an hour ago, the local mosque had warned them of the surging water, […]
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) – Switzerland28 Sep 2010 09:30:00 GMT Security concerns, isolation and restrictions on the movement of staff in Balochistan region further aggravate the prevailing dire needs for food, water, shelter and medicines. As floodwaters slowly recede, an estimated 600,000 displaced flood victims are preparing to return to what is […]
By Rina Saeed Khan, AlertNet correspondent 28 Sep 2010 12:29:00 GMT ISLAMABAD (AlertNet) – As Pakistan struggles to recover from recent devastating floods, it is pushing for recognition in U.N. climate negotiations as one of those nations judged to be most vulnerable to climate change and in need of funding to cope. This summer’s flooding, […]
IRIN27 September 2010 QUETTA – Inside their tent at a camp on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of the southwestern province of Balochistan, Meraj Sindhu helps his wife wrap their six-month-old son and two-year-old daughter in thin cloths widely used in Sindh Province as head scarves or turbans. Sindhu’s wife, Sassui Bibi, tells IRIN: “The […]
Full Report [pdf – 3.8 Mbytes] United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)Date: 22 Sep 2010 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The monsoon induced flooding in Pakistan constitutes an evolving crisis on an unprecedented scale. The impact of the flood has varied: The flash floods in the mountainous north (KPK) were intense and highly destructive. This was also largely […]
UPIPublished: Sept. 22, 2010 at 10:44 AM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 22 (UPI) — Breaches in Pakistan’s largest freshwater lake have flooded 75 villages in southern Sindh Province and displaced thousands of residents, the government says. Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said Wednesday nearly 1.5 million people are living in relief camps in the province after […]
By Jasper Fakkert, Epoch Times Staff Sep 21, 2010 Seven weeks after floods submerged large parts of Pakistan, thousands of people continue to flee their homes every day, the United Nations said on Tuesday. “The flood waters are rising, and every day we are seeing 20,000 to 30,000 people newly displaced,” said Andy Pendleton, a […]
By Saeed Shah in Drab Korona, www.guardian.co.ukTuesday 24 August 2010 17.26 BST Sirajuddin stares at the shallow muddy pool of water. He had come to salvage whatever he could from his home. There is nothing, nothing at all. “This was our house,” said 30-year-old Sirajuddin, pointing to the pool. Before the great flood came at […]
By MARGIE MASON (AP) 20 September 2010 SUKKUR, Pakistan — Suhani Bunglani fans flies away from her two baby girls as one sleeps motionless while the other stares without blinking at the roof of their tent, her empty belly bulging beneath a green flowered shirt. Their newborn sister already died on the ground inside this […]
ISLAMABAD (AFP) — More than 80 percent of the millions of Pakistanis left homeless by the country’s worst floods are still without shelter, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Friday. The United Nations is to launch a fresh appeal for funds on Friday to help victims of the catastrophe which left some 10 million […]
