Millions of Pakistan flood victims need rescuing

UPISept. 1, 2010 at 9:58 AM LONDON, Sept. 1 (UPI) — Only 20 percent of Pakistan’s flood victims have been rescued due to the enormity of the crisis, an international relief official said Wednesday. Gareth Owen, emergencies director of Save the Children in Britain, said the logistical challenges of reaching tens of thousands of people […]

‘Triple threat’ unfolding in Pakistan, says WFP chief

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 […]

Pakistan town submerged amid fight to rebuild levees

BBC29 August 2010 Floodwater has submerged a town in the southern province of Sindh, and threatens another being used as a key staging post for flood relief workers. Sujawal, a town of some 250,000 people, has been submerged while people battle to save the nearby city of Thatta, reports say. Authorities are still trying to […]

Pakistan floods just one of its water woes

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 […]

Video: Fresh Pakistan flood evacuations ordered

By Zeina Khodr, AlJazeera English  August 27, 2010 Nearly a month after Pakistan’s most catastrophic deluges swept away towns and villages across the country, hundreds of thousands of people have been stranded by fresh floods in some regions. In Sindh province – one of the worst affected areas – authorities have issued new evacuation orders […]

Pakistan flood victims flee city of Thatta after another levee breach — 175,000 people leave homes overnight

By Mark Tran and agencies, www.guardian.co.uk Friday 27 August 2010 15.58 BST Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis have fled the historic southern city of Thatta in Sindh province after the swollen Indus river broke a levee and flooded new areas. Around 175,000 people, about 70% of the city’s population, were believed to have fled their […]

Pakistanis too broken to rebuild in flood crisis

  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 […]

Photo gallery: Pakistan floods

A man and a woman, displaced by floods, walk through flood waters on Sunday in the village of Baseera near Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. Daniel Berehulak / Getty Images Floods ravage Pakistan People flee the flooded areas from Basera, near Muzaffargarh, in Punjab Province, Pakistan on 21 August 2010. Pakistan reassured international donors that aid […]

Pakistan flood: Irrigation canals overloaded in second wave threaten agriculture

By Catharine Paddock, PhD, Medical News Today 25 Aug 2010 – 9:00 PDT As well as losing crops and farm animals directly as a result of flooding, the people of Pakistan could be facing longer term food shortages as canals overloaded in the second wave of flooding threaten to undermine the irrigation infrastructure that the […]

Pakistan aid camps overwhelmed, flood survivors turned away – Refugees face ‘serious’ threat of epidemic disease

By Jill McGivering, BBC24 August 2010 Sukkur is overwhelmed. Along the river banks and canals, on patches of dry ground and alongside the roads, homeless families are sitting or lying in the open air, their possessions piled at their side. They fled their homes with whatever they could carry as rising floodwater inundated their towns […]

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