Pakistan needs more aid to combat disaster

The United Nations said Pakistan needs more aids to carry on rehabilitation as the devastating floods have left about 10 million people homeless.

Danger of a fresh natural calamity looms still as rescuers rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe.

According to new estimates following the most recent flooding in Sindh… “at least 10 million people are currently without shelter,” said Maurizio Giuliano, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs spokesman. He said the floods in Pakistan had become “one of the worst humanitarian disasters in UN history, in terms of number of people that we have to assist and also the area covered.”

Giuliano’s assessment was echoed by Valerie Amos, the new UN humanitarian chief, who arrived in Pakistan on Tuesday.

“The floods here in Pakistan have affected almost 21 million people — it is one of the biggest humanitarian crises the world has seen,” said Amos, who takes over from John Holmes.