Long wait for thousands of stranded Pakistanis
SAEEDABAD — Hakim Machhi has been camped out on a river bank for three days, waiting in vain for Pakistani aid workers to pluck him to safety after stinking flood waters swallowed up his home. About 50 families lived in the remote village of Alan Suhebjo, 30 kilometers (19 miles) north of Hyderabad in southern Sindh province, but their homes have disappeared under water in Pakistan’s worst humanitarian disaster. Around 10 kilometers from the nearest town of Saeedabad, the village is largely isolated from the state-sponsored and mainstream independent relief operations straining to cope with a crisis that has hit 17 million. Instead villagers fell back on their resourcefulness, decamping to a nearby embankment and collection of mud huts already abandoned by their occupants too frightened by rising waters. Children swam through the putrid flood. Wives and daughters busied themselves with what household chores they could do. Men took it in turns to keep watch over the rising waters and trudged into Saeedabad for help.... MORE Source: The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100828com3.html |
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