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[14 Dec 2010 | Comments Off | Kayhan Feroze Qaiser]
The Other Side of the Spectrum

If the floods were an unmitigated disaster, the unstinted, overwhelming response by Pakistani citizenry was nothing short of heroism.

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[31 Oct 2010 | 2 Comments | Afia Salam]
Heritage Under Threat

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.

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[31 Oct 2010 | Comments Off | Shahzada Irfan Ahmed]
Naming and Blaming: Breaches in Punjab

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.

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[31 Oct 2010 | Comments Off | Salam Dharejo]
Man-made Disaster?

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.

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Heart and Sole

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.

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[30 Oct 2010 | Comments Off | Farieha Aziz]
Saving Pakistan’s Animals After the Floods

Animals are the lifeline of rural Sindh, and their welfare will play an integral role in the post-flood rehabilitation process.

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[30 Oct 2010 | 6 Comments | Sana Saleem]
Smile Again

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.”

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[30 Oct 2010 | Comments Off | Saleem Shaikh]
Meatless Days: Livestock Devastated in Pakistan

Sindh’s livestock industry has been one of the biggest casualties of the floods.

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[30 Sep 2010 | 3 Comments | Online Editor]
Flood in Pakistan has Many Faces

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.

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[30 Sep 2010 | 2 Comments | Sairah Irshad Khan]
Apocalypse Now

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.