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Little relief in sight for flood-ravaged Pakistan
By: cnn.comPosted On: 08/13/2010 1:13 P
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Two weeks into the catastrophe engulfing Pakistan, little relief is in sight. The brooding, granite clouds menace almost daily, erupting into more downpours that top up rivers just as they recede. The meteorological office is issuing new floods warnings, and people are clinging onto life by their fingernails, in an agonizing wait for help.
Two weeks into the catastrophe engulfing Pakistan, little relief is in sight. The brooding, granite clouds menace almost daily, erupting into more downpours that top up rivers just as they recede. The meteorological office is issuing new floods warnings, and people are clinging onto life by their fingernails, in an agonizing wait for help.
We have seen a good cross section of this disaster and aid is conspicuous by its absence in many parts. It's not due to a lack of effort by charities and the government -- in many places they are simply unable to reach those most in need.
In some cases, the aid agencies have in turn become victims of this crisis: the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies showed us their warehouse in Nowshera, which remains under a meter of flood water -- $15 million worth of supplies going nowhere fast.
The U.S. Army has sent four Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters from Afghanistan to help ferry aid in and people out. As I write, they have plucked more than 3,000 people from danger and delivered 146 metric tons of aid, but it is a tiny fraction of the 6 million people the United Nations says are in need of emergency help.
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