In late July 2010, flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains began in several regions of Pakistan, including the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab and parts of Baluchistan. According to the Associated Press, the floods have affected about one-fifth of the country. Tens of thousands of villages have been flooded, more than 1,500 people have been killed, […]
VOA News23 August 2010 Pakistani officials say three separate bomb attacks have killed at least 36 people. Police say three people died in a blast on the outskirts of Peshawar. The Associated Press identified the victims as the leader of an anti-Taliban militia, Israr Khan, and two aides. Earlier Monday, authorities said a suicide bomber […]
By Mail Foreign ServiceLast updated at 9:57 AM on 22nd August 2010 Tired, desperate and starving, these two men come to blows as they fight over a food package handed out by a local charity. With more than 20million people displaced by flooding that is now officially the worst disaster Pakistan has ever faced, the […]
By TIM SULLIVAN (AP)22 August 2010 HAMDANI LEGARI, Pakistan — The old man stepped carefully through his village, dodging craters as deep as graves where they had been mining soil for embankments to hold back the floodwaters. Already, nearly half this village of tenant farmers had been destroyed. The crops wiped out. But Mohammed Ayoub […]
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 […]
Kashmor, Pakistan, 9 August 2009 Kashmor, Pakistan, 12 August 2010 Caption by Holli RiebeekAugust 19, 2010 By mid-August, the extreme monsoon floods that had overwhelmed northwestern Pakistan had traveled downstream into southern Pakistan. The bottom image, acquired by the Landsat 5 satellite on August 12, 2010, shows flooding near Kashmor, Pakistan, just before the […]
By CTV.ca News Staff Sat. Aug. 21 2010 6:15 PM ET Aid workers say the flooding in Pakistan that has forced millions from their homes will get worse before it gets better. Rahul Singh, of the aid group Global Medic, told CTV News Channel that he and his fellow aid workers are trying as quickly […]
It has taken weeks for the trail of destruction in mountain villages to be starkly revealed, writes By MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent, The Irish Times Friday, August 20, 2010 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan — NESTLED AMID the fabled Karakoram range of the greater Himalaya, Kohistan has long been home to one of the most remote […]
Indus River, 18 August 2009 Indus River, 17 August 2010 Caption by Michon Scott18 August 2010 By mid-August 2010, some 20 million people in Pakistan had been affected by the intense monsoon rains, according to news reports. Roughly a fifth of the country was underwater, and extensive damage to agricultural lands was expected […]
By ROBERT MACKEYAugust 18, 2010, 6:57 pm In a radio interview broadcast on Wednesday, Daanish Mustafa, a scholar who studies the intersection of development and water resources, told the BBC that attempts to tame the Indus River, beginning during British rule in the 19th century, laid the foundations for the deadly floods that swept Pakistan […]
