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 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appealed for swifter aid to provide immediate relief in food, shelter and clean water.
The number of people rendered homeless by the devastating floods in Pakistan has risen to more than four million, the UN said on Thursday.
The European Union nearly doubled its aid to flood-stricken Pakistan to €70-million on Wednesday.
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.
India PM Manmohan Singh on Sunday warned Pakistan that a recent resumption of dialogue would go nowhere unless Islamabad cracks down on militancy.
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.
Pakistani troops, spearheading relief efforts in the worst floods in 80 years, evacuated several thousand people in two provinces overnight.
Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as heavy rain was expected to intensify suffering.
Districts in Pakistan’s Sindh province were on high alert on Saturday for floods which have devastated other parts of the country.
The UN rushed a top envoy to Pakistan on Thursday to address the urgent plight of 3,2-million people hit by the worst floods in generations.
Desperate survivors crushed into relief centres on Wednesday after Pakistan’s worst floods in living memory.
A second night of political and ethnic violence in Karachi raised the death toll from the worst such unrest in the city for years to more than 60.
Where authorities have been left overwhelmed by the worst flooding in decades, Islamist groups linked with terrorists have stepped in.
Political and ethnic violence erupted in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi after the murder of a lawmaker, killing 45 people.
The worst floods in memory in Pakistan have affected more than three million people so far and the death toll has climbed over 1 400.
The main focus is along the lawless 2 500km frontier with Afghanistan, where insurgent commanders can freely recruit, resupply and seek finance.
Fears were growing on Monday for up to 2,5-million people affected by Pakistan’s worst floods in 80 years amid outbreaks of disease.
Survivors crammed into inadequate shelters expressed anger over inaction from the Pakistani government on Monday.