Courtesy BBC
The submerged area of the country is as big as the United Kingdom!
14 million Pakistans have been affected.
2 million have been made altogether homeless.
6 million people are in need of immediate help.
The United Nations is now calling for nearly half a billion dollars in
international aid for Pakistan, in the face of a weird resistance on the
part of the world community to step up and help. When Pakistan faced a
relatively minor security threat from a small guerrilla movement of
Pakistani Taliban in the northwest, the world community ponied up
billions in aid. This much more devastating flood is not generating the
same enthusiasm for helping the country.
Oxfam America is taking donations for the Pakistan relief effort.
Aljazeera English reports on the flood victims still waiting for aid:
An unexpected casualty of the floods has been press freedom in civilian-ruled
Pakistan. President Asaf Ali Zardari’s trip to Europe has provoked
widespread protest. But the ruling Pakistan People’s Party officials
have attempted to prevent the public from seeing the protests on
television, and so have blacked out the GEO and Ary satellite news in Urdu. It
is the sort of policy that military dictator Pervez Musharraf used to
engage in, and it helped make him so hated that his government fell.
Aljazeera English has video on the disappointment in the Pakistani ... at the government’s failure to distribute aid in a timely way and efficiently, and at Mr. Zardari’s trips abroad.
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