Cholera confirmed as UN chief to tour Pakistan floods
Click "Cholera confirmed" above to read full yahoo news article. begin quote from above article.
Up to two million people require emergency shelter and six million depend on humanitarian assistance to survive, fanning widespread anger against the weak US-backed government, amid looting and misery on the ground.
The UN's Ban arrives late Saturday. He "will discuss relief efforts with government leaders on Sunday and visit flood-devastated areas the same day," foreign ministry spokesman Abdul Basit told AFP.
Outside the city of Sukkur in Sindh, residents waded through stagnant flood waters up to their chests, retrieving valuables and lashing out at the government for failing to stop looting.
"We left with our belongings in a tractor when armed men surrounded us. They snatched everything and fled," Mai Meema, 60, told AFP in a tent city.
"We were poor people but never slept on an empty stomach," she said. "This flood has made us beggars. We have nothing at all." end quote.
I think even now we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of this flood. Nothing this bad has ever happened in Pakistan's history as a nation. The last time there were floods this bad this area was a part of India and had all the resources of India to recover. That isn't true now. So, it is possible the democratic government of Pakistan will collapse and it will again become a military run government at least until this crisis is over which could last months or years.
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