Pak Flood Relief

• Angelina Jolie in Pakistan to raise funds for flood relief

  Angelina Jolie who had donated US $1 million to relief efforts in flood ravaged Pakistan, arrived in the country to provide some hands-on help.

• Angelina Jolie in Pak to raise funds for flood relief

  Hollywood superstar Angelina Jolie who had earlier donated US $1 million to relief efforts in flood ravaged Pakistan, arrived in the country on Tuesday to provide some hands-on help.The Academy award winning actress jetted to Pakistan on a mercy mission for the millions left homeless because of the floods.The United Nations High Commission for Refu...

• Floods in Pakistan carry the seeds of upheaval

  When the governor of Punjab Province arrived recently in this small town with truckloads of relief goods for flood victims, his visit was as much a political mission as a humanitarian one. His message to the hundred or so displaced people gathered under an awning was that the government was there for them.The people say this was an act of God," the...

• Thatta in south Pakistan saved from floods although aid distribution a major concern

  Thousands of people streamed back to this historic southern city Monday where new levees hastily built from clay and stone held back floodwaters that have inundated much of Pakistan.Thousands who fled the waters that inundated neighboring towns complained about the shortage of food and water as they camped in a vast Muslim graveyard on a hill near ...

• India to route Pak aid through UN

  It's Pakistan's worst floods in living history and the UN has only managed to raise one third of the amount meant for aid relief despite that Pakistan has been reluctant to take aid from India. (Read: Pak refuses to accept flood aid directly from India)And a week after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gila...

• Pak cracks down on banned groups engaged in flood relief work

  Authorities in northwest Pakistan have launched a crackdown against banned terrorist groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) that are engaged in relief efforts for flood victims and closed down 16 camps set up by these organisations.The government of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province decided on Sunday to act against outlawed terrorist groups involved in collec...

• Pak yet to decide on India's aid offer; 'appreciates' gesture

  In Pakistan's worst humanitarian crisis, 20 million people are displaced by floods that have inundated the country. And yet, for a country desperate for international aid, Islamabad's refusal to accept India's five million dollar offer has baffled many.For India, the aid offer is purely on humanitarian terms. It is also ready to render more help if...

• Banned terror groups in Pak raise funds for flood relief

  Banned militant groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad and Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, blamed for terror strikes in India, have set up camps in Karachi to raise funds to help victims of the worst ever deluge sweeping Pakistan.Office-bearers of the groups said the ban imposed on them has compelled them to work under different names.The wor...

• Pak floods: Helicopters drop food to victims

  Many people displaced by the floods in Pakistan were struggling to find shelter on Sunday, as the United Nations warned it will cost billions of US dollars for Pakistan to recover from the devastation. More than 1,500 people have been killed and millions more left begging for help following the worst floods in the country's history.Pakistani Prime ...