God is punishing Pakistan
Pakistan floods a megadisaster of epic proportions - Aug 2010
U.N. says more people are affected than 3 other major catastrophes
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ISLAMABAD ? The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million ? more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said Monday.
The death toll in each of those three disasters was much higher than the 1,500 people killed so far in the floods that first hit Pakistan two weeks ago. But the U.N. estimates that 13.8 million people have been affected ? over 2 million more than the other disasters combined.
The comparison helps frame the scale of the crisis, which the prime minister said Monday was the worst in Pakistan's history. It has overwhelmed the government, generating widespread anger from flood victims who have complained that aid is not reaching them quickly enough or at all.
"The number of people affected by the floods is greater than the other three disasters combined," Maurizio Giuliano, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told The Associated Press.
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Wasn't Pakistan caught funding the fucking Taliban just last week or something? Hmmmm...... coincidence? (or government retaliation?) 
U.N. says more people are affected than 3 other major catastrophes
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ISLAMABAD ? The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million ? more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said Monday.
The death toll in each of those three disasters was much higher than the 1,500 people killed so far in the floods that first hit Pakistan two weeks ago. But the U.N. estimates that 13.8 million people have been affected ? over 2 million more than the other disasters combined.
The comparison helps frame the scale of the crisis, which the prime minister said Monday was the worst in Pakistan's history. It has overwhelmed the government, generating widespread anger from flood victims who have complained that aid is not reaching them quickly enough or at all.
"The number of people affected by the floods is greater than the other three disasters combined," Maurizio Giuliano, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told The Associated Press.
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Wasn't Pakistan caught funding the fucking Taliban just last week or something? Hmmmm...... coincidence? (or government retaliation?)
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