Eyewitness account of Sindh floods
Hundreds of thousands displaced as flood worsens Heavy monsoon rains have continued to lash most of the Sindh and wreaked havoc in the Badin and Mirpurkhas districts and many other…
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Sindh flooded again
Millions badly affected Around ten million people have been directly and severely affected in the twenty-one districts of Sindh province due to non-stop heavy rain and floods, caused by…
8 million people affected by devastating floods
Feudal lords and politicians’ criminal decisions led to disaster More than 8 million people have been affected by the devastating floods in Sindh province, Pakistan. Many people believe that the…
Children Without Food in Flood-hit Areas Face Death
More than 100,000 (one hundred thousand) children left homeless by Pakistan’s floods are in danger of dying because they simply do not have enough to eat, according to UNICEF. Children…
Who is to blame for this destruction?
More than 8 million people have been affected from floods in Sindh province. Many people believes that the destruction caused by the floods is the result of natural calamity but…
Floods raise spectre of social unrest and polarization
By Khalid Bhatti 19/09/2010 Eradication of feudalism and capitalism would free millions The PML-N (Pakistan Muslim league) leader and Chief Minister of the largest province, Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, continues…
Two ‘floods’ devastate working people and poor
By Khalid Bhatti 16/09/2010 Flash floods destroy lives, soaring price inflation means poverty The people of Pakistan are facing two floods at the same time. One is partly a natural…
Women and children most at risk in flood-hit areas
By Rukhsana Manzoor 27/08/2010 “Criminal negligence” of government and the super-rich Poor women and children are suffering the most in the flood-affected areas of Pakistan. Starvation, water-borne diseases, lack of…
The economic impact of devastating floods
By Khalid Bhatti 14/08/2010 Small farmers and peasants to suffer the most The full economic costs of the devastation caused by the floods- the worst in many years- in Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa,…