Saturday, August 21, 2010

FLOOD IN PAKISTAN 2010

A woman yells as her child is evacuated from the roof of a mosque where residents were taking refuge from flood waters in Sanawa, Pakistan on August 5, 2010.







Heartbreaking pictures of recent floods in paksitan. Just to give you an idea about the devestation and the impact it had on people. 
























Residents watch water pour through a street on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan on July 28, 2010.



Pakistani villagers move to high ground escaping a flood-hit village near Nowshera, Pakistan on



Residents stand by flood water that entered a residential area of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan on July 30, 2010


An aerial view of a man and his animals surrounded by floodwater in Taunsa near Multan


A Pakistani villager struggles to reach his village through a fast-moving flood water caused by heavy monsoon rain in Bakhtiarabad, 250 km (155 mi) north of Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, July 23, 2010.


An aerial view shows Nowshera city submerged in flooding caused by heavy monsoon rains in Pakistan


Pakistani flood survivors line up beside a damaged bridge in Medain, a town of Swat Valley on August 2, 2010.


People wait to cross a flooded road in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010.



A boy walks through flood destroyed homes on August 4, 2010 in Pabbi, near Nowshera, Pakistan.


A boy sits on a bed as his family members salvage belongings from their destroyed house in Pabbi, Pakistan on August 5, 2010.

Residents evacuate to safety in a flood-hit area of Nowshera, Pakistan on July 30, 2010

Onlookers perched on a damaged bridge watch a flood survivor use a rope to cross the river in Chakdara in Pakistan’s Swat Valley on August 3, 2010.

A man tries to cross a makeshift bridge to escape his flooded home in Nowshera, Pakistan on July 31, 2010

A Pakistan army helicopter evacuates stranded villagers in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010.

A family takes refuge on top of a mosque while awaiting rescue from flood waters in Sanawa, a town located in the Muzaffar Ghar district of Pakistan’s Punjab province on August 5, 2010.



Friday, August 20, 2010

FLOOD IN PAKISTAN 2010

The 2010 Pakistan floods began in July 2010 after heavy monsoon rains affected the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Punjab as well as parts of Baluchistan. An estimated 2,000 people have died so far with close to a million homes badly damaged or destroyed.The United Nations estimates over 20 million people are suffering with over 160,000 square kilometers affected as a result of the flooding, exceeding the combined total of the affected of 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. However, the death toll in each of those three disasters was much higher than the number of people killed so far in the floods. Around a fifth of Pakistan's total land area was impacted by the flooding.