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Pakistan floods: cash grants support families in emergencies

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Pakistan floods: cash grants support families in emergencies

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgE-O81iKw&time_continue=33https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eGgE-O81iKw&time_continue=33

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Sanitation infrastructure was damaged and was unable to get to certain areas e.g. Mountainous areas. This led to spread of waterborne diseases

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436 health facilities were damaged or destroyed which limited health care services to local community

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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North-West Frontier Province and scene of a bloody Taliban insurgency, has been devasted by swollen rivers. The steel girder bridge over the Khyali River in Charsadda which built by the British at the height of the Raj is a jagged stump. It was a vital gateway to the region and its loss has hampered the aid effort.

"There are people here who are 80 and who will tell you that they have seen nothing like it in their lives," said Arif Jabbar Khan, leading the Oxfam team in the town. "This was a productive agricultural area with a big middle class who have now lost everything. The effect of that will be enormously destabilizing. There was a riot in town as people demanded food."

Beneath it, the brown waters of the swollen Khyali, three times its normal width, thundered southward over what had been homes and farms.

The problems here are being replicated across Pakistan. Of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's population of 1.7 million, some one million have been made destitute by the flooding. The government has managed to distribute 10,000 food packs in the 10 days since the disaster. They will feed just 80,000 people.

Flood victims stand around homeless, aimless, their clothes covered in sticky red mud. The river thunders on, oblivious.

"The reaction in the west to this crisis has been lukewarm so far," said Mr Khan. "The governments there need to understand what is going on." Meanwhile Mr Khan must get on with the basics, pouring chlorine into wells to prevent the spread of e-coli and cholera, and organizing payments to families so that they can buy food in Charsadda's still-functioning market.

The nearby city of Peshawar relies on the area for much of its food, and prices are now rocketing in the markets there - as they are along the length of Pakistan.

Still more people are still dying in Pakistan's remote mountainous northern provinces, swept away in the torrent or buried in landslides.

The government in Islamabad has admitted that cannot cope with such a catastrophe, but the international response has been lukewarm.

Yousuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan's prime minister, left to deal with the crisis while his president, Asif Ali Zardari, toured Britain and France, said the floods would set Pakistan back years.

Jean-Maurice Ripert, the United Nations special envoy for the disaster, said the scale of funding for Pakistan's recovery could only escalate. He said: "The emergency phase will require hundreds of millions of dollars and the recovery and reconstruction part will require billions of dollars."

Angry survivors have attacked government officials in flood-hit areas. The government's fear of a backlash is believed to be behind the blocking of two independent TV channels, Geo and Ary, which have been critical of President Asif Ali Zardari for going ahead with a European tour as large parts of his country suffered inundation.

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Pakistan floods: disaster is the worst in the UN's history

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Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, formerly North-West Frontier Province and scene of a bloody Taliban insurgency, has been devasted by swollen rivers. The steel girder bridge over the Khyali River in Charsadda which built by the British at the height of the Raj is a jagged stump.

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The floods threatened domestic and commercial water supplies as ground water wells were blocked by sand and silt leaving people without clean water

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Over 400 health facilities were washed away

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Extensive damage to communication routes and infrastructure left remote villagers isolated for weeks

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Seven million hectares of the most fertile land was washed away.
In Punjab 570000 hectares of crop land was destroyed.
The cost of lost agricultural revenue was estimated to be $1 billion.
The fresh water from the floods goes some way to reducing salinity levels in the soil.

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25% of irrigated land badly affected, resulting in 1.4 million hectares being abandoned

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Video on the Indus Delta https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2010/oct/11/pakistan-floods-indus-river-delta-video

*Flood waters covered 1/5 country
*7 million hectares of fertile farm land was washed away
*In western Punjab 570000 hectares of cropland  were destroyed
*Cost of lost agricultural revenue : $1 billion
*Along the tributaries of the Indus River an estimated 89% of habitats of reptiles and small mammals was affected
*Flood swept petrol and diesel into the river system and polluted water further downstream
*In the more mountainous provinces of northern Pakistan the flood waters receded more readily and overall crop losses were lower,45% in the Khabarovsk Pakhunkwa compared to 60% in the Singh

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The total cost of damage to property was around $7 billion.

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Flood waters covered 1/5 of the country and the Indus sindh valley was over 24km wide more than 25 times its normal width *GASP

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In the Swat valley, they lost all 20 of their bridges, an entire neighbourhood in Madyan and its hospita

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Over 7000 schools were washed away.

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Eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan have been hit by torrential rain, causing floods which have killed at least 80 people.

Officials said 34 died in the Sarobi district alone, around 65 km (40 miles) east of the Afghan capital Kabul.

Pakistan's biggest city Karachi was also badly affected, with at least 16 killed after days of flooding.

The region has suffered devastating floods during the monsoon period for the past three years.

Afghan officials said that emergency teams and supplies were being dispatched to affected areas.

Hundreds have been displaced in eastern areas of Afghanistan and hundreds of hectares of farmland destroyed, Ghulam Farooq, the head of emergency operations for Afghanistan's National Disaster Management Authority, told AFP news agency.

The floods have caused extensive damage to property in both countries.

The Pakistani army was called in to help the clean-up in Karachi, where local media reports say sewage and rainwater have blocked some of the main roads.

The fatalities in the city have been mostly due to electrocution or collapsing roofs and walls. The floods are also reported to have left many areas of the city without power.

In Pakistan's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, many houses were swept away by the torrent, officials said.

Pakistani disaster response officials have warned that more rain may be on the way over the coming days.

In 2010, Pakistan was hit by the worst monsoon floods in 80 years. Almost 1,800 people were killed and 21 million people affected.

Flooding in each of the following two years also left hundreds dead.

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Eastern Afghanistan and neighbouring Pakistan have been hit by torrential rain, causing floods which have killed at least 80 people. Officials said 34 died in the Sarobi district alone, around 65 km (40 miles) east of the Afghan capital Kabul. Pakistan's biggest city Karachi was also badly affected, with at least 16 killed after days of flooding.

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1.2 million homes damaged/destroyed

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11000 villages were flooded

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10 million were left homeless and in critical need of food and water

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Road Infrastructure and vital communications infrastructure were distroyed - leaving both remote and mountainous villages cut off from ground emergency responders.