It is now been a year since Pakistan was hit by the worst floods in
its history, but threats continue to loom over 800,000 homeless
families.
According to aid group Oxfam, more than 800,000 families remain without
permanent shelter and more than a million people need food assistance.
“We have just received 20,000 rupees and are building a room to live in,” The Scotsman quoted, a resident as saying.
“No politician visited us throughout the year to see how we were
living. They may have gone to influential and rich people and given
money to them, but we just got the 20,000 rupees, nothing else,” he
added.
At least 1,600 people were killed, 3000 injured and more than 1.7 million homes were destroyed in the floods.
Pakistan reportedly suffered more than 6 billion pounds in damage to
infrastructure, irrigation systems, bridges, houses and roads.
Muddy torrents raged down valleys in the upper Indus river basin,
destroying almost everything in their path, then spread and flowed
south for weeks, inundating expanses of Punjab and later Sindh
provinces. (ANI)
