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Pakistan Flood Relief
More heavy rain in Pakistan is frustrating efforts to help about 14 million people affected by severe flooding in much of the country.
Heavy monsoon rains and extensive floods are still driving people out of their homes in Pakistan, as floods that began in the country's northwest hit communities in the south. The United Nations estimates that the floods have affected more than four million people, but a local official told the Reuters News Agency that it has affected as many as 12 million people in the northwest alone.
Nadeem Ahmed, chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, said the figure applied only to Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province in the country's northwest and central Punjab province, according to a Reuters report.
Figures from southern Sindh province, where swollen rivers have forced officials to evacuate thousands of people, were not yet available, the news agency said.
Foreign governments and the United Nations have pledged millions in assistance, but relief workers on the ground are struggling to reach many areas affected by the flood.
U.S. military personnel waiting to fly Chinooks to the upper reaches of the hard hit Swat Valley Friday were frustrated by bad weather, which dumped more rain on a region where many thousands are already living in tents or crammed into public buildings. Over the last week, floods have spread from the northwest down Pakistan, killing around 1,500 people and displacing millions of people. Much of the destruction has come from the mighty Indus River, which in better times irrigates vast swaths of farmland.
"Once this flood engulfed everything, our dreams ended," said Mohammad Amad, who lost his home to the floods in Pakistan's northwest. "After the floods ends, many of the areas were disconnected, bridges were broken, roads were inundated, there's no infrastructure now," he said from Mardan, where he is helping with relief operations in Nowshera and Swat. The flooding began in the north, but is now affecting a broad swath of the country, with flood warnings in Punjab and Sindh province.
In a report released Thursday, the World Health Organization said 1.6 million people in Punjab were affected overnight.
In the Sukkur area of Sindh in southern Pakistan, 70 villages had been flooded over the last 24 hours, the navy said.
"Floods killed our people, they have ruined our homes and even washed away the graves of our loved ones. Yet we are here without help from the government," said Mai Sahat, a 35-year-old women looking over a flooded landscape where her village used to be.
Saleh Farooqi, head of the Provincial Disaster Management Authority in Sindh, said authorities had evacuated about 200,000 people from areas where floodwaters could hit, but many more were still living in the danger zone.
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