More than two million cases of malaria are expected in Pakistan in the coming months in the wake of the country’s devastating floods.
The worst of the flooding may be over but prospects are bleak in Pakistan, where disease and the coming winter threaten to intensify the crisis.
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/ 7 September 2010
More than 10-million people have been left without shelter in Pakistan’s floods for the past six weeks, the UN said on Tuesday.
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/ 6 September 2010
A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police station in north-west Pakistan on Monday killing at least 19 people.
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/ 5 September 2010
The message in black Urdu lettering on a white sack of supplies for flood relief says it all: "In tough times, the Pakistan army is with you".
Angry outbursts by flood victims reliant on scarce aid are hampering relief work in Pakistan, the Red Cross has said.
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/ 3 September 2010
A blast ripped through a rally in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday, killing at least 43 people, the second major attack this week.
Relief efforts in flood-ravaged Pakistan are being stretched by the "unprecedented scale" of the disaster, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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/ 1 September 2010
For some of the children caught up in Pakistan’s floods, the most frightening moment of their lives was the day before the water hit.
A month after torrential monsoon rains triggered Pakistan’s worst natural disaster on record, flood waters are starting to recede.
A team of 11 rescuers from the Johannesburg emergency services have arrived in Pakistan on a relief mission to the flood-stricken country.
Flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan on Saturday, a month after the disaster began.
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.
Thousands of people fled on Friday from the southern Pakistani town of Thatta after the swollen Indus river burst its banks.
South Africa have agreed to play an additional Twenty20 match against Pakistan to raise funds for the country’s flood victims.
Pakistan faces a critical risk of yet more flooding in the next three days in its fertile southern plains, officials warned on Tuesday.
More than $800-million has been donated or pledged to help Pakistan’s flood victims, the foreign minister said on Sunday.
Floods are threatening to wreak havoc in more areas of south Pakistan in a catastrophe that has made the government more unpopular.
Pakistan is courting IMF help to alleviate the threat of economic ruin as enormous floods wipe out farmland and industry.
The United Nations now says that 55% of its $460-million appeal for emergency funds for the next three months has been received.
The number of people rendered homeless by the devastating floods in Pakistan has risen to more than four million, the UN said on Thursday.
Pakistan faces economic catastrophe after the devastating floods that have wiped out farmland and ruined infrastructure.
Only a small fraction of the six million Pakistanis desperate for food and clean water have received any help as the UN battles donor fatigue.
The United Nations warned on Monday that up to 3,5-million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in Pakistan’s floods.
Authorities warned of more flooding this week in Pakistan and heavy rain lashed victims living in makeshift camps Monday.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon flew into Pakistan on Sunday to visit areas ravaged by floods and urged the world to speed up aid.
Aid agencies have provided assistance to hundreds of thousands of victims but relief operations have yet to reach an estimated six million people.
Disease outbreaks pose grave risks to victims of Pakistan’s worst floods in decades, aid agencies said on Friday.
Armed bandits are exacerbating the misery of Pakistan’s massive floods, stealing cattle and food from survivors, witnesses said on Friday.
The United Nations has appealed for $460-million in urgent aid to cope with Pakistan’s devastating floods.
The United Nations on Wednesday warned of a second wave of deaths from floods in Pakistan unless help arrives soon.
Pakistani authorities have evacuated more than half a million people in southern Sindh province, threatened by the worst floods in 80 years.