I can barely believe the words I am writing are not a nightmare from which I will soon wake up.
A third of Pakistan is now under water, and fresh rainfall threatens two more waves of flooding in the southern Sindh province.
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.
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