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August 6, 2010

Severe flooding in Pakistan

It is only the start of the monsoon season, but already Pakistan is experiencing some of

the worst flooding it has seen in over 80 years. Entire villages have been washed away,an early estimate of over 1,600 deaths so far and over 2 million displaced or otherwiseaffected. Not only is the immediate water damage causing havoc, the floods haveinundated crop-producing areas, dealing a crippling blow to the agricultural-basedeconomy and threatening a food crisis. The Pakistani government now struggles to rescueand provide aid to millions - while still fighting with militant Islamist forces in many ofthe hardest-hit regions. With even more heavy rains predicted in the coming days, hereare a handful of recent photographs of Pakistanis as they cope with this latest disaster. (41photos total)
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A boy hangs on to the front of a cargo truck while passing through a flooded road inRisalpur, located in Nowshera District in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province July 30,2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)
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2Men take refuge on a boat during heavy rain in Pakistan's Nowshera District on July 29,2010. (REUTERS/K. Parvez) #
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3Residents watch water pour through a street on the outskirts of Peshawar, Pakistan onJuly 28, 2010. (A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images) #


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4Pakistani villagers move to high ground escaping a flood-hit village near Nowshera,Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #


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5Nimra, a three-year-old girl, who was rescued along with her family from Kaalam in the

northern area, kisses the window glass of an army helicopter after their arrival atKhuazakhela in Swat district located in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-PakhtunkhwaProvince on August 1, 2010. (REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood) #


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6Residents watch from a nearby hill as army helicopters rescued trapped residents fromNowshera, Pakistan on July 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #


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7Residents stand by flood water that entered a residential area of Muzaffarabad, Pakistanon July 30, 2010. (SAJJAD QAYYUM/AFP/Getty Images) #


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8An aerial view of a man and his animals surrounded by floodwater in Taunsa nearMultan, Pakistan, flooded on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) #


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9A Pakistani villager struggles to reach his village through a fast-moving flood watercaused by heavy monsoon rain in Bakhtiarabad, 250 km (155 mi) north of Quetta,Pakistan on Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Fida Hussain) #


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10An aerial view shows Nowshera city submerged in flooding caused by heavy monsoonrains in Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #


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11A Pakistani volunteer uses a small boat to evacuate locals in a flood-hit area of Nowsheraon July 30, 2010. (A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images) #


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Pakistan army soldiers pass a baby across a channel in the floodwater as they help peopleflee from their flooded village following heavy monsoon rains in Taunsa, Pakistan onSunday, Aug. 1, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) #


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14Villagers try to catch trees floating in the flooded Nelum river in Muzaffarabad, thecapital of Pakistani Kashmir on Friday, July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Aftab Ahmed) #


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15Residents help a man untie a chicken from his neck after he evacuated his flooded homewith the fowl by swimming to higher grounds in Nowshera, Pakistan on August 1, 2010.(REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #


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16A family being rescued by army soldiers passes a cargo truck with men on top takingshelter from heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan on July 31, 2010. (REUTERS/AdreesLatif) #


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17A soldier evacuating residents carries a flood victim to a helicopter in Sanawa, Pakistan'son August 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer) #


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18A Pakistani boy named Jeeshan stands outside his tent in a camp set up by the Pakistani

army inside a college on the outskirts of Nowshera on August 2, 2010. (BEHROUZMEHRI/AFP/Getty Images) #


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19Pakistani flood survivors line up beside a damaged bridge in Medain, a town of SwatValley on August 2, 2010. (A Majeed/AFP/Getty Images) #


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20A boy is flung back by the force of a Pakistan Air Force helicopter rotors as it dropswater supplies to residents on August 2, 2010 in Nowshera, Pakistan. (Daniel

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21Evacuees wade through a flooded area following heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar on

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22People wait to cross a flooded road in Bannu, northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3,2010. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad) #


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23A boy walks through flood destroyed homes on August 4, 2010 in Pabbi, near Nowshera,Pakistan. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)#

24A family portrait is seen, attached to a bookcase buried in mud on August 4, 2010 inPabbi, Pakistan. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) #

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34Children, whose families have declined to be rescued, wade in rising flood waters onAugust 6, 2010 in the village of Panu Akil, near Sukkur, Pakistan. Rescue workers andarmed forces continued rescue operations evacuating thousands in Pakistan's heartlandprovince of Sindh. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) #

35Residents evacuate to safety in a flood-hit area of Nowshera, Pakistan on July 30, 2010.(A. MAJEED/AFP/Getty Images) #

36Onlookers perched on a damaged bridge watch a flood survivor use a rope to cross theriver in Chakdara in Pakistan's Swat Valley on August 3, 2010. (STRDEL/AFP/GettyImages) #

37A young flood survivor cools herself with water at a makeshift camp in Nowshera,Pakistan on August 5, 2010. (FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images)#

38A man tries to cross a makeshift bridge to escape his flooded home in Nowshera,Pakistan on July 31, 2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #

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A Pakistan army helicopter evacuates stranded villagers in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday,July 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) #

40A family takes refuge on top of a mosque while awaiting rescue from flood waters inSanawa, a town located in the Muzaffar Ghar district of Pakistan's Punjab province onAugust 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer) #

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A woman yells as her child is evacuated from the roof of a mosque where residents weretaking refuge from flood waters in Sanawa, Pakistan on August 5, 2010.(REUTERS/Stringer) #
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A man marooned by flood waters, alongside his livestock, waves towards an Armyhelicopter for relief handouts in the Rajanpur district of Pakistan's Punjab province onAugust 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer)
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2Pakistani city Mehmud Kot is submerged in floodwater near Multan, Pakistan on Sunday,Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) #
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3Nadia, who does not know her age, sits alongside siblings after they were rescued fromrising floodwaters in Baseera, a village located in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's

Punjab province, August 10, 2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #


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4Pakistani villagers stand on the remains of a bridge washed away by heavy flooding inBannu in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Ijaz Mohammad) #


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5Pictures taken from US rescue helicopter shows the flooded area of Kallam valley onAugust 9, 2010. (FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP/Getty Images) #


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6A girl floats her brother across flood waters while salvaging valuables from their floodravaged home on August 7, 2010 in the village of Bux Seelro near Sukkur, Pakistan.(Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) #


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7A Pakistani Army soldier rests between air rescue operations on August 9, 2010 in the

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8Flood victims awaiting rescue wave down a helicopter from a rooftop in Muzaffargarhdistrict of Pakistan's Punjab province August 7, 2010. Pakistanis desperate to get out offlooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as more heavy rain wasexpected to intensify both suffering and anger with the government. The disaster killedmore than 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12 million. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #


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9Pakistani villagers raise hands to get food dropped from an army helicopter at a flood-hitarea of Kot Addu, in central Pakistan on Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010. (AP Photo/KhalidTanveer) #


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10Pakistani flood survivors climb on army helicopter as it distributes food bags in Lal Pir

on August 7, 2010. (Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images) #


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12Stranded truck drivers, waiting for their tea, watch lightning strike within developing

monsoon clouds over Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district in Punjab province August 10,2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #


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14Volunteers of the Falah-e-Insaniyat foundation, the charity wing of Pakistan's anti-American militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa, run a relief camp for flood-affected people inNowshera, northwest Pakistan on Aug. 9, 2010. U.S. army choppers flew up the formerly

Taliban-controlled valley laden with flour, biscuits and water. They returned loaded withhungry Pakistani flood survivors. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) #


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15Residents stand near the path of flowing flood waters the Muzaffargarh district ofPakistan's Punjab province on August 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif)#


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16US Army Staff Sargent Matthew Kingsbury (right) from Bravo Company 2/3 Aviationand Pakistani soldiers sit on the cargo bay ramp of a CH-47 heavy-lift helicopter whilelooking down at a flooded area while in flight over Pakistan's Swat Valley on August 10,2010. (BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)#


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18A Pakistani flood survivor climbs onto an army rescue helicopter in Ghouspur, Pakistanon August 9, 2010. (ASIF HASSAN/AFP/Getty Images) #


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20A ray of light shines past monsoon clouds as villagers wade through rising floodwaters inBaseera, in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjab province, August 10, 2010.

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22A man walks through a flooded house in the Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan's Punjabprovince August 7, 2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #


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23A man pushes his motorbike through flood waters in the Muzaffargarh district ofPakistan on August 8, 2010. (REUTERS/Adrees Latif) #


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24Newborn twin boys lay covered up in a blanket on the floor of a Pakistani Armyhelicopter, as mother Zada Perveen (unseen) rests after being rescued by Pakistan Army

soldiers during air rescue operations on August 9, 2010 over the village of Sanawan inthe Muzaffargarh district of Pakistan. Of the twin boys, un-named at the time, the firstwas born 15 minutes before mid-day and the other twin was born as the Army rescuehelicopter was circling above to find a safe landing position on a road surrounded byflood waters. The mother was then carried on a makeshift bed through chest deepfloodwaters to the awaiting Pakistani Army helicopter. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images)#


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25A Pakistani crosses a canal with the help of cable wire on a damaged bridge, which waswashed away by heavy floods in Ghazi Gat in central Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010.(AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary) #


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26Pakistani villagers chase after relief supplies dropped from an army helicopter in a heavyflood-hit area of Mithan Kot, in central Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP

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27Pakistani volunteers unload sacks of flour provided by the U.S. government in Kalam inPakistan's Swat valley on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash) #


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28An aerial view, from a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter en route to deliveringhumanitarian assistance supplies, shows the flood-damaged countryside in Ghazi,Pakistan on August 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Horace Murray/U.S. Army) #


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29People hunt a stray wild boar which escaped from a jungle during the heavy floods in

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30A Pakistan police officer use a baton to control flood affected people who are trying toloot donated food from a bus at a roadside in Azakhel near Nowshera, Pakistan onSunday, Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)#


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31An aerial view from a U.S. Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter shows a damaged bridgewashed out by the floods in Ghazi, Pakistan August 5, 2010. (REUTERS/Horace

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33A Pakistani flood survivor who lost her home to heavy flooding, cries upon her arrival inMuzaffargarh, Pakistan, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)#


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34Flood victims are rescued by boat in Baseera, a village located in the Muzaffargarhdistrict of Pakistan's Punjab province on August 10, 2010. (REUTERS/Stringer) #


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35Youths affected by floods walk outside the ruins of their home which was washed awayby heavy floods in Charsadda, northwest Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (APPhoto/B.K. Bangash)#


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36Pakistani flood victim Mohammed Nawaz hangs onto a moving raft as he is rescued bythe Pakistan Navy August 10, 2010 in Sukkur, Pakistan. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images)#

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