The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 after heavy monsoon rains affected the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, lower Punjab as well as parts of Balochistan. It is estimated that two thousand people along with close to a million homes have perished so far. The United Nations estimates over 20 million people are suffering and homeless with over 160,000 square kilometers (62,000 sq mi) effected as a result of the flooding, exceeding the combined total of the affected of 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake.
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OMG….
Hope they are ok now.
Soendoro Soetanto
That scenario would create a new crisis for politically-fragile President Asif Ali Zardari, in a country where civilian governments have a poor history of managing crises, leaving the powerful military to step in.
World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman Amjad Jamal said the organisations’ workers were urgently trying to reach flood areas in the northwest cut off from food supplies, which a UN aid agency said devastated the lives of over 3 million people.
Before the floods hit, a million people were already forced from their homes in the Pakistani northwest because of fighting between the army and Taliban militants.
If the floods deepen the problem, it could set back government efforts to get the people back home in a bid to help stabilise nuclear-armed US ally Pakistan.
“We have sent a request to the government and we are getting six helicopters from them and we will be doing air drops to the areas which are cut off,” Jamal told Reuters in a telephone interview.
WFP teams in the field since Tuesday may not be able to report their findings until Wednesday night, he said.
“You can imagine for five or six days floods have caused havoc in these areas. People have lost their food stocks. The markets are not up and running. Shops have collapsed. People are definitely in the greatest need of food,” he said.
“That’s what we fear. The need to rush to those areas which have been cut off for the past week to provide them with life-saving food.”
The flood catastrophe, which started a week ago and has killed more than 1,400 people, is likely to deepen as more rains are expected. A feared breakout of water-borne diseases such as cholera would create a health crisis.
The disaster has also, once again, called into question the leadership of Zardari, already hampered by problems ranging from a stubborn Taliban insurgency, widespread poverty to chronic power cuts.
“A lot of agriculture-based activities have gone under water. So people may not be able to harvest or even sow their crops. This is a food crisis,” said Jamal.
“This region was already under the highest food insecurity status and the floods have further aggravated the situation.”
CRISES
Zardari’s administration has faced a cascade of crises over the last few weeks, from the worst ever domestic plane crash on the edge of the capital to leaked reports on Islamabad’s alleged support for militants battling US troops in Afghanistan, to diplomatic rows with Britain.
Adding to the pressure, Islamist charities, some tied to militant groups allied with the Taliban and al Qaeda, are competing with the government to provide aid to the affected areas, boosting their credibility and support among the populace at the government’s expense.
A similar dynamic occurred after the 2005 Kashmir eathquake, which killed almost 75,000 people according to official figures.
Pakistani civilians who resettled after being forced to flee fighting in the northwest now face fresh uncertainty after the floods. Some had just gone back, hoping to start a new life.
Pakistan is an under development country. Just crawling towards the point where the remaining world today is. 65 years is longest long time period for a country to stand up on its own feet. But in Pakistan, even every new born human is buried under the heavy loans which are not much beneficial for common people other than the so called leaders.
We have much more natural resources than any other developed countries But the politicians have no time for them to bring them in use.
The founder of this Muslim country, Muhammad Ali Jinnah was assassinated. Than martial laws after martial laws, Illiterate but powerful people in governments who ever used to make dollars for them and nothing else, black marketing, uncontrollable raising prices, shortage of daily necessities, wars, earthquakes, heavy rains done everything to wash the country away from the globe. And now these floods, that are affecting whole the country left nothing for the poor people living in Pakistan. Foods lost in water, homes destroyed,animals washed away,even rich people came on roads. Floods put us 30 years back to the time.
Who knows what does tomorrow bring to us…………
allah to muslims par reham farma aur muskalat khatam farma
so bad situation
but thanks for these
thanks
i wish you a ll the best and i hope you r now thrue with this probleme .i really love pakista although iam an algeriane girl but iam olso a moslem girl and in islam we all r a big familly
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will these days will do, i really become when i see these pics. may peace be upon them.
i hope one day some one some where there will come a person which is not corraptable and he/she lead pakistan out of the Whole situation it is in. i.e greed, drink, sex, and money culture which i feel it is in now