Sept. 7, 2010
Actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, center, talks with flood victims at the Kandaro II relief camp in Nowshera, Pakistan. Jolie visited to draw the world's attention towards the plight of 21 million people affected by the country's worst-ever floods.
Jason Tanner-AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 7, 2010
Angelina Jolie speaks with the media during a visit to the Jalozai relief camp for flood victims. Jolie called for constant and long-term assistance the help Pakistan deal with floods that have wreaked havoc on the impoverished country.
Morteza Nikoubazl-Reuters
Sept. 7, 2010
Angelina Jolie, second from left, arrives at the Jalozai relief camp during her visit to flood-affected areas and relief camps supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province.
Fayaz Aziz-Reuters
Sept. 8, 2010
Residents return to collect their belongings from their destroyed homes in Kohat, Pakistan, a day after the police residential complex area was hit by a car bomb. A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police residential complex in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, officials said, in another blow for a country grappling with devastating floods. The blast in the northwestern garrison town of Kohat came hours after the Taliban threatened more suicide attacks on a government and security forces already overwhelmed by the worst flooding in Pakistani history.
Reuters
Sept. 8, 2010
Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said, as authorities rushed to bolster river defenses to save two towns from catastrophe.
Aamir Qureshi-AFP/Getty Images
Sukhan, who is a flood victim, arranges wooden beams to build his makeshift house along the banks of the river Indus after the water level has gone down in Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province September 8, 2010. REUTERS/Akhtar Soomro (PAKISTAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT)
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A desperate Pakistani woman displaced by floods pours water on her four-year-old son Sadiq to bring down his fever in the shade of a temporary shanty tent on higher ground in southern Sindh province's flood-hit Kandkot on September 8, 2010. Pakistan's devastating floods have left 10 million people without shelter, the United Nations said on September 7, as authorities rushed to bolster river defences to save two towns from catastrophe. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images)
Aamir Qureshi-AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 7, 2010
A displaced Pakistani girl pumps water in an area that has been occupied by flood victims at the DPS thermal power station in the Muzaffargah district. The World Bank has raised flood $1 billion in aid to Pakistan while the International Monetary Fund has approved $450 million in emergency financing to help the nation.
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Sept. 7, 2010
A Pakistani man walks into floodwater on the other side of a door to a religious seminary in Faujawala, Punjab province.
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Sept. 5, 2010
Flood victims line up for aid provided by Sitara Chemical Industries Ltd. in Sanawan, Pakistan.
Carl De Souza-AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 5, 2010
A flood victims reach for food distributed by aid workers in Muzaffargah, Pakistan. The flooding has destroyed cropland and livestock and displaced millions of people, causing damage that the government has estimated at $43 billion, or almost one quarter of the South Asian nation's 2009 gross domestic product.
Damir Sagolj-Reuters
Flood victims look for shelter as a storm hits their encampment in Muzaffargah.
Damir Sagolj-Reuters
Flood victims wait for food to be distributed by aid workers in Muzaffargah.
Damir Sagolj-REUTERS
Flood survivors cross a street on a cart as they evacuate the village of Maherh near Dadu. Pakistani authorities were trying to protect another town from floodwaters in southern Sindh province, as the nation continues to grapple with one of its worst natural disasters.
Asif Hassan-AFP/Getty Images
A flood victim reaches out for food distributed by aid workers in Muzaffargah.
Damir Sagolj-REUTERS
Survivors are rescued by Pakistani navy officials as they wade through floodwaters in Khairpur Nathan Shah.
Asif Hassan-AFP/Getty Images
A flood victim hangs clean clothes saved from the rubble of her home in Muzaffargah.
Damir Sagolj-REUTERS
A Pakistani woman and children are pictured in an area that has been occupied by flood victims in front of DPS thermal power station in Muzaffargah.
Carl De Souza-AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 3, 2010
Flood victims use a huge frying pan as a vessel to coast their way across a river as they attempt to reach their village, Ghotki, about 33 miles from Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province. Severe flooding in Pakistan has destroyed cropland and livestock and displaced millions of people, causing damage the government has estimated at $43 billion.
Athar Hussain-Reuters
Sept. 3, 2010
A pickup truck carries a wooden rowboat crammed with Pakistani men traveling by road in the Punjab province's Muzaffargarh district in Pakistan. Flood victims say they have received little government help, with most assistance coming from private charities. The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that survivors' anger was beginning to hamper aid efforts.
Aaron Favila-Associated Press
Sept. 2, 2010
A flood victim sits forlornly on a rope bed at a relief camp in Nowshera in northwestern Pakistan. The floods began in July after record-breaking monsoon storms. It has caused billions of dollars worth of damage to infrastructure and agriculture, the mainstay of the economy.
Morteza Nikoubazl-Reuters
Sept. 2, 2010
A hungry Pakistani boy stuffs his mouth with rice that was distributed at a camp for displaced people in the Muzaffargarh district of the Punjab province in Pakistan. The floods, which swamped wide swaths of the country, have left millions of people in need of assistance.
Aaron Favila-Associated Press
Sept. 2, 2010
Flies crawl on the face of a young flood victim as he rests on a rope bed at a relief camp in Nowshera in northwestern Pakistan.
Morteza Nikoubazl-Reuters
Sept. 1, 2010
A family travels by boat in flooded Bssera in Muzaffargarh district. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is predicting that his country's economic growth will fall by 2 percent because of the devastation.
Arif Ali-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Sept. 1, 2010
A woman catches the attention of British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, second from right, as he visits a camp for flood victims in southern Pakistan. Clegg traveled to the ravaged area to boost relief efforts for the 20 million people made homeless.
Anjum Naveed-Associated Press
Sept. 1, 2010
A volunteer reads to children at a temporary camp in Tibba Jamal Wala village in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district. Teachers from the Balamory school in nearby Multan travel to different camps every day to teach school subjects and proper hygiene to prevent the spread of disease.
Aaron Favila-Associated Press
Sept. 1, 2010
A Pakistani girl plays in a tent school in Mehmood Kot.
Arif Ali-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Sept. 1, 2010
A boy bathes at a temporary camp in Sukkur. The World Food Program warned that flood-ravaged Pakistan faces a "triple threat" after the worst disaster in the country's history left 8 million people dependent on aid to survive.
Adek Berry-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Sept. 1, 2010
A woman gives her son a bath by a water pump at a makeshift camp in Mehmood Kot.
Arif Ali-Agence France-Press via Getty Images
Sept. 1, 2010
A girl takes shelter underneath a bed frame as a younger child sleeps in a hammock in Bssera, in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district.
Arif Ali-Agence France-Press via Getty Images
Aug. 31, 2010
Flood victims use part of a damaged railway track to make their way to a village in Sultan Kot in Pakistan's Sindh province. Floodwaters are receding, but challenges remain as 8 million affected people try to recover.
Damir Sagolj-Reuters
Aug. 31, 2010
A man pleads with a security guard to let him stay with other flood victims on an overloaded boat headed for villages in Sultan Kot. The scale of the disaster has raised concerns about the stability of nuclear-armed Pakistan, which is already reeling from al-Qaeda and Taliban violence.
Damir Sagolj-Reuters
Aug. 31, 2010
A woman fans herself outside a makeshift tent in a camp for displaced people in Sukkur.
Anjum Naveed-Associated Press
Aug. 31, 2010
Girls write on small blackboards in a makeshift school run by UNICEF in Sukkur. An estimated 1 million homes were damaged or destroyed in the floods, five times as many as were hit by this year's earthquake in Haiti.
Anjum Naveed-Associated Press
Aug. 31, 2010
People cross floodwaters as they make their way toward a village in Sultan Kot. A month after torrential monsoon rains triggered Pakistan's worst natural disaster on record, floodwaters are starting to recede -- but countless survivors are at risk of starvation and disease.
Damir Sagolj-Reuters
Aug. 30, 2010
Men fish along flooded roads in Shah Ghar village in Pakistan's Punjab province. Some people have laid nets along flooded roads hoping to catch fish from overflowing rivers as they wait for relief goods to come.
Aaron Favila-AP
Aug. 30, 2010
Flood victims line up to receive relief goods at a distribution center near Peshawar.
Mohammad Sajjad-AP
Aug. 30, 2010
People struggle for water from a tanker in Thatta in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
Asif Hassan-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 30, 2010
An army crewman is lowered from a helicopter onto a roof where flood victims wait to be rescued at a flooded village in Sujawal.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 30, 2010
A family evacuates on a truck as the floodwater surrounds their village in southern Pakistan.
Shakil Adil-AP
Aug. 30, 2010
Survivors rebuild their mud house after floodwaters receded in Sanawan.
Arif Ali-AFP/Getty Images
Pakistanis displaced by flooding walk on a waterlogged road near the Indus River outside the southern city of Thatta.
Kevin Frayer-Associated Press
Pakistanis displaced by flooding hold up their shoes as a sign of disrespect, protesting during a visit by government officials outside Thatta, in Sindh province.
Kevin Frayer-Associated Press
Aug. 27, 2010
Aysha, center, holds a doll as she stands with her siblings at an assistance center for flood victims in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province. Hundreds of thousands of people were fleeing floodwaters in southern Pakistan on Friday after the surging River Indus smashed through levees in two places, nearly a month after devastating floods first struck.
Faisal Mahmood-Reuters
Aug. 27, 2010
A girl poses with a pot on her head while waiting to receive cooked rice from a kitchen run by a charity in Nowshera. The Taliban issued a veiled threat against foreign aid workers helping out in the crisis, saying that the U.S. and other countries have ulterior motives.
Faisal Mahmood-Reuters
Aug. 27, 2010
A flood victim drives a tractor trolley through the rubble of collapsed houses after floodwaters receded in Aza Kheil, about 25 miles from Peshawar. The death toll from the floods are expected to rise as waters recede and the number of missing are counted, Pakistan's disaster agency said.
Aamir Qureshi-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 26, 2010
People head back home on a flooded road as the water level goes down in Baseera, in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Paula Bronstein-Getty Images
Aug. 26, 2010
A Pakistani boy looks on at a camp set up for families displaced by flooding near Sukkur.
Shakil Adil-AP
Aug. 26, 2010
Homeless flood victims continue to camp out on the highway weeks after fleeing their homes. More than 8 million people are in need of emergency assistance across the country.
Paula Bronstein-Getty Images
Aug. 26, 2010
A woman holds her baby as she stands at her makeshift shelter overlooking a camp for families displaced by flooding in southern Pakistan's Sindh province. The U.S. is diverting some of its five-year, multibillion-dollar aid package for Pakistan to flood recovery.
Kevin Frayer-AP
Aug. 26, 2010
Shabana, a 7-year-old flood victim, fills water from a hand pump at a relief camp in Sukkur.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 26, 2010
A child gets a bath under a water pump at a camp for displaced families in Sukkur.
Kevin Frayer-AP
Aug. 26, 2010
People line up at a food distribution point in Sukkur.
Kevin Frayer-AP
Aug. 25, 2010
Girls wait for their daily ration of food at an army relief camp in Sultan Colony in Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district. Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari warned that his beleaguered nation could take years to recover from the devastating floods.
Pedro Ugarte-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 25, 2010
An aerial view shows a flood-affected area in Sajawal village in Pakistan's Sindh province.
Arif Ali-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 25, 2010
Mai Rehma sits at a desk while taking refuge from the flood in a classroom with her family in Pakistan's Sindh province.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 25, 2010
Three-month-old Nasiba sleeps in a hammock while she and her family take shelter in a classroom in Sukkur.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 25, 2010
Young flood victims rest on handmade rope beds while taking refuge with their family at the Al Mujahid Army Relief Camp in Sukkur.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 25, 2010
Amar Lal, 6, gets his hair cut at an army relief camp in Sukkur.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 25, 2010
A man fleeing from floodwaters uses a blanket donated by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) while he sleeps on a rope bed at a relief camp in Sukkur.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 23, 2010
A boy asks for an evening food handout at a center for flood victims near Nowshera in northwest Pakistan.
Tim Wimborne-REUTERS
Aug. 23, 2010
A boy walks into his family's destroyed house in Mehmood Kod village in Pakistan's Punjab province. The country's worst floods in decades have left millions hungry, the U.N. said on Monday, while parts of the south were on high alert for rising waters.
Reinhard Krause-Reuters
Aug. 23, 2010
Flood victims help each other across a damaged railway track as they head to their village in Pakistan's Sindh province.
Akhtar Soomro-Reuters
Aug. 23, 2010
Volunteers look for survivors in a passenger bus that plunged into floodwater in Taunsa. Seventeen people drowned.
Saleem Raza-AP
Aug. 23, 2010
A protester adds tires to a roadblock as flood victims express their anger against the government for allegedly neglecting to give them food, clothing and temporary shelter in the town of Kot Addu in southern Punjab province.
Aaron Favila-AP
Aug. 23, 2010
A man searches for goods in the rubble of his family's house.
Reinhard Krause-Reuters
Aug. 23, 2010
Boys wait for an evening food handout at a roadside center for flood victims near Nowshera in northwest Pakistan.
Tim Wimborne-REUTERS
Aug. 23, 2010
Men line up for a fresh meal at a camp for families displaced by floods in southern Pakistan's Sindh province.
Kevin Frayer-AP
Aug. 23, 2010
A woman looks at a water-soaked Koran she recovered from the rubble of her house in Pakistan's Punjab province.
Reinhard Krause-Reuters
Aug. 22, 2010
Children grab for blocks of ice at a roadside camp for flood victims on the outskirts of Peshawar in northwest Pakistan.
Tim Wimborne-Reuters
Aug. 22, 2010
Pakistanis affected by the flooding stand in a queue for food in Sukkur.
Asif Hassan-AFP/Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2010
A child cries during the evening meal at a roadside camp for flood victims on the outskirts of Peshawar.
Tim Wimborne-Reuters
Aug. 22, 2010
Pakistanis cross a flooded road in the Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province.
Reinhard Krause-Reuters
Aug. 22, 2010
A Pakistani army helicopter drops a box of high-energy biscuits from the World Food Program in a new flood zone in Shahdakot, Pakistan.
Paula Bronstein-Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2010
A Pakistani boy swims as he tries to keep his food dry in a flooded area near Basira village in Punjab.
Pedro Ugarte-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2010
Boys play on a sports oval that has been converted into a camp for displaced flood victims in Charsadda in northwest Pakistan.
Tim Wimborne-Reuters
Aug. 22, 2010
A 6-year-old girl guides her younger siblings along a motorway to their family tent at a roadside camp for flood victims on the outskirts of Peshawar.
Tim Wimborne-Reuters
Aug. 22, 2010
A U.S. soldier stands near as relief supplies from a U.S. rescue helicopter are collected in Kallam, a town in the Swat Valley.
Aamir Qureshi-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2010
Flood-affected survivors sit in a U.S. rescue helicopter in Kallam, in Pakistan's Swat Valley.
Aamir Qureshi-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2010
A Pakistani man wades through flood water with a boy near Basira village in Punjab.
Pedro Ugarte-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Aug. 22, 2010
Children wait for an evening food handout at a roadside camp for flood victims on the outskirts of Peshawar in Pakistan's northwest.
Tim Wimborne-Reuters
Aug. 21, 2010
Flood victims carry sacks of wheat distributed by the World Food Program at a camp in Sukkur, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed.
Paula Bronstein-Getty Images
Aug. 21, 2010
A Pakistani man signals a military helicopter delivering food and water in Shah Jamaal village in Punjab province. U.N. agencies stepped up calls for donors to deliver on their pledges for Pakistan.
Pedro Ugarte-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
Aug. 21, 2010
Pakistanis affected by the flood signal to a military helicopter delivering food and water in Punjab's Muzaffarragh district.
Pedro Ugarte-Agence France-Presse via Getty Images
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