Flood waters combined with government neglect have caused damage to centuries-old heritage sites. The extent of the damage, however, is yet to be determined.
Landowners and politicians in the Punjab are being accused of the intentional creation of breaches in embankments across the province to save their properties from flood waters.
Looking back at the accusations of wrongdoing against politicians and landowners in Sindh to see how nature combined with man to create one of the worst humanitarian disasters in living memory.
While several shopkeepers wanted to fleece a flood relief charity by charging double the price for shoes for flood victims, one Hindu trader proved he had a heart.
A surgeon provides a free-of-cost operation on a seven-year-old girl with a cleft palate from a relief camp, causing the girl’s mother to say that “the floods had turned into a blessing for her.”
Flood 2010: Beyond the devastation and political manipulation, Newsline examines the army’s efforts, NGOs, social media at work, the role of climate change and the likelihood of droughts. It’s all here.
The floods have stripped bare the ugly face of a feudal-sardari system and its umbilical connect with politics that have together created and fostered an underclass so wretched, it has nothing left to lose.