Pakistan: Pakistan Flud is Bigger than Tsunami (UN)

Pakistan Flud is Bigger than Tsunami (UN)

The number of people suffering from the floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million - more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations has declared.
The death toll in each of those three disasters was much higher than the 1,500 people killed so far in the floods that first hit Pakistan two weeks ago.
But the UN estimates that 13.8 million of Pakistan's 170 million people have been affected, while the total number of people affected in the three other disasters was about 11 million.

UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesman Maurizio Giuliano explained that a person is considered affected by the floods if they will need some form of assistance to recover, either short-term humanitarian aid or longer-term reconstruction help.
Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said yesterday that the floods were a bigger crisis than the 2005 Kashmir earthquake that killed nearly 80,000 people.
"The magnitude of the tragedy is so immense that it is hard to assess," Mr Gilani declared during a visit to Multan.
The crisis has overwhelmed the government, generating widespread anger from flood victims who have complained that aid is not reaching them quickly enough or at all.

Rescue workers have been unable to reach up to 600,000 people marooned in the north-western province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa because bad weather has prevented helicopters from flying to the area, which is inaccessible by ground.
Islamic charities with alleged links to militant groups are filling the vacuum.
They have delivered aid in the Swat valley, where people were still recovering from the army's US-backed offensive against pro-Taliban tribes last spring that killed an unknown number of civilians and drove more than two million people from their homes.

Hundreds of thousands of people have also had to flee rising floodwaters in recent days in the central and southern provinces of Punjab and Sindh as heavy rains have continued to pound parts of the country.
Even those Pakistanis whose cities and towns were relatively unscathed by the floods are being hit by skyrocketing fruit and vegetable prices.
The prices of basic items such as tomatoes, onions, potatoes and squash have in some cases quadrupled in recent days, putting them out of reach for many.

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