Floods In Pakistan Leave Thousands Stranded (PHOTOS)

Days of heavy monsoonal rains have brought severe floods to northwest Pakistan, where an estimated 430 people have been killed. Flood waters have ripped through hundreds of villages, torn down 60 bridges and countless buildings.

The Associated Press reports,

"This is a natural calamity, and we will do whatever is possible to reach the flood-affected people and to help them," said Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the information minister for Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province. "We appeal to the world community to help us. We need a lot of assistance."

The Pakistani army is using boats and helicopters to conduct search and rescue missions in the affected regions. Over 400,000 people are believed to still be stranded by the floods.

In addition to the Pakistani army, United Nations workers are also reportedly on the ground in the region, supplying tents, medicine and other supplies to displaced families. There is no word yet on how to donate to the disaster relief efforts.

• • • • • • • • • • Pakistani villagers move to a safe place from a flood hit village near Nowshera, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Comments

[timetocookdinner]

03:21 PM on 08/02/2010

I wonder if the billions of aid that we already give to Pakistan will ever touch these families.

[Conk]

02:41 PM on 08/02/2010

Ah, these aren't real people. They're to be seen only through the lens of a helicopter machine gun sight. Right? Isn't that the way the governments of the world brainwash us to think?

[bgofca]

01:07 PM on 07/31/2010

i hope the regular people are doing ok and will get help, however, it would be a bonus if the taliban in that area were lost in the flood waters.

[Nahia Ali]

06:29 AM on 07/31/2010

Due to heavey monsoon rains in Pakistna, about half of the Pakistan is under flood. Millions

of people need help. They have no food and shelter. Please create awareness and try to help

these needy people. You can give your suggestions to us at [e-mail] , your

little help can save a life.

A message from http://www.forumpakistan.com , we request all the charity organization in the

world to come in Pakistan and help in this hour of need.

Thanks.

[gevan]

04:56 PM on 07/30/2010

Isn't Pat Robertson going to tell the Pakistanis that Allah has sent this travail upon them in punishment for gaining the evil Devil knowledge of Nuclear weaponry?