Pakistan Floods 2010

The summer of 2010 produced Pakistan’s worst flooding in 80 years. The number of people affected, who need food, shelter and clothing to face a harsh Pakistani winter, is 20 million.
Flooding began on July 22, 2010, in the province of Baluchistan. The swollen waters then poured across the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province in the northwest before flowing south into Punjab and Sindh. Estimates of the death toll of the floods range from 1,300 to 1,600.

Even as Pakistani and international relief officials scrambled to save people and property, they despaired that the nation’s worst natural calamity had ruined just about every physical strand that knit the country together — roads, bridges, schools, health clinics, electricity and communications.
The flooding, which began with the arrival of the annual monsoons, eventually affected about one-fifth of the country — nearly 62,000 square miles — or an area larger than England.
Six weeks after the floods began, as rivers continued to devour villages and farmland in the southern province of Sindh, aid workers warned of a triple threat: loss of crops, loss of seed for the next planting season and loss of a daily income. There was widespread worry that the disaster will destabilize the country and aggravate its already deep regional, sectarian and class fissures.
Poorly handled relief efforts, corruption and favoritism have added to the distrust that many Pakistanis already feel for their civilian political leaders, while the armed forces have burnished their image performing rescue and relief missions along the length of the flooded areas.

Over 700,000 homes haves been destroyed and demolished and over 20 million people affected by the Pakistan flood in just two weeks. Still, the experts have feared for yet another wave of flood and another wave of death toll.
Pakistan flood has reached to almost all four provinces of the country and the situation is getting worst day by day. The weather experts keep on forecasting more rain and flood, on the other hand, people without food, shelter, water and help are waiting for miracles.
According to the UN reports, 3.5 million children are at high risk and in great danger of deadly water born diseases.
The UN spokesman has stated that the most concerned issues of Pakistan flood are health and water. Clean water is not available and the available water has been severely contaminated.
Government of Pakistan has not yet reported any confirmed cases but the United Nation and World Health Organization is already present to help tens of thousands of people in case of cholera.

According to the reports, six million people are at risk from contaminated water born diseases.
The survivors of Pakistan flood have blocked a road in Sind to protest against the slow delivery of food and required items.
The people who survived are in worst condition. One of the survivor stated that we lost everything in flood, lost our children, our homes, our livestock, we could hardly save ourselves but nobody is around to help us. Where is the Government, where do we go?
The Secretary of the United Nation asked the world to speed up the aid to Pakistan after watching the biggest disaster in the history of Pakistan on Sunday. He said, medicine and shelter are desperately needed.
Untied Nation has launched an appeal for $459 million for emergency aid for the Pakistan due to flood. The United Nation has already granted $10 million aid to Pakistan.
The Government of Pakistan has stated that around 20 million people have been affected by the flood and more than 1500 people lost their lives in the flood in Pakistan.