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Pakistan’s Armed Forces Rescue 2,000 Marooned By Historic Floods: Report

On Thursday, the Pakistani military said it had evacuated about 50,000 people.Islamabad/Karachi: Pakistan's armed forces have rescued a further 2,000 people stranded by rising floodwaters, they said on Friday, in a disaster blamed on climate change that has swamped about a third of the south Asian nation and is still growing.Record monsoon rains and melting glaciers in northern mountains brought floods that have killed at least 1,208 people, including 416 children, the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has said.The United Nations has appealed for $160 million in aid to help tackle what it said was an "unprecedented climate catastrophe" as Pakistan's navy has fanned out inland to carry out relief operations in areas that resemble a sea."During the last 24 hours, 1,991 strande...
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“Burning With Pain”: Devastating Pak Floods Trigger Major Health Crisis

Scabies outbreaks are common in crowded places with tropical conditions.Sukkur, Pakistan: At a charity clinic in a southern Pakistani village, dozens of people affected by relentless rains and floods crowd around the door waiting to talk to a volunteer doctor.The village of Bhambro is in a poor district of Sindh province, hard-hit by record floods that have destroyed more than a million homes and damaged critical infrastructure including health facilities across the country.Bhambro is surrounded by vast stretches of flooded farmland, its streets full of mud and strewn with debris and manure -- conditions ripe for outbreaks of malaria, cholera and skin diseases such as scabies."Skin diseases are the main problem here because of dirty, stagnant water and unhygienic conditions," said Sajja...
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Pakistan Floods “Worst In Country’s History”: PM Shehbaz Sharif

The rains that began in June have unleashed powerful floods across the country. (File)Islamabad: Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives.Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the flooding "the worst in the history of Pakistan", adding it would cost at least $10 billion to repair damaged infrastructure spread across the country.The rains that began in June have unleashed powerful floods across the country that have washed away swathes of vital crops and damaged or destroyed more than a million homes.Authorities and charities are struggling to accelerate aid delivery to more than 33 million people, a challenging task in areas ...
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Pakistan Floods: US Announces $30 Million Aid

Devastating floods affected more than 33 million people in Pakistan. (File)Islamabad: The United States will provide $30 million in support for Pakistan following severe rains and flooding, the US embassy in Islamabad announced on Tuesday."The United States, through the US Agency for International Development (USAID), today announced an additional $30 million in life-saving humanitarian assistance to support people and communities affected by severe flooding in Pakistan," the statement said.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Source link
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One-Third Of Pakistan Under Water Right Now: Minister After Deadly Floods

More than 33 Million people affected from floods in Pakistan. (File)Islamabad: A third of Pakistan was under water as a result of flooding caused by record monsoon rains, Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman said Monday, creating a crisis of "unimaginable proportions"."It's all one big ocean, there's no dry land to pump the water out," she told AFP, as the country wrestles with floods that have affected 33 million people.(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.) Source link