Flood Victims Angry With Pakistani Government

As Monday dawned, Faisal Islam sat on a highway median in northwestern Pakistan - the only dry ground he could find - and railed against the government for its failure to provide aid nearly a week after the country's worst-ever floods first hit.

Like many other residents of Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province, the people camped out by the highway in Kamp Koroona village in Nowshera district - one of the areas hit hardest by the floods - waded through the water to their damaged houses to salvage their remaining possessions: usually just a few mud-covered plates and chairs.

The death toll from the disaster has ranged from about 870 provided by the prime minister's office to 1,100 given by disaster management officials in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa who warned that it could go even higher.

The U.N. has estimated that 1 million people nationwide have been affected by the floods, and Pakistani officials have said that at least 500,000 have been displaced from their homes in the northwest. .... - Flood Victims Angry With Pakistani Government : NPR

Pakistanis Suffer After Devastating Floods