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Pakistanis push trade, not just aid, after floods (AP)

October 3rd, 2010

In this picture taken on Sept. 28, 2010, Pakistani worker Aqeel Ahmed examines fabric at a textile factory in Faisalabad, Pakistan. This eastern Pakistani city is known for the roar of its power looms and the buzz of its sewing machines. Now, following massive floods that devastated the cotton crop, another noise is threatening to drown those out: the pleas of a struggling textile industry begging the U.S. and Europe to open their markets further. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)AP - This eastern Pakistani city is known for the roar of its power looms and the buzz of its sewing machines. Now, following massive floods that devastated the cotton…

Many desperate Pakistanis still wait for flood aid (AP)

September 4th, 2010

A Pakistani family displaced by floods prepares to cross a flooded road as the rain falls, in Shah Jamal village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab Province, Pakistan, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. More than 3 million people have yet to receive desperately needed food aid, according to the U.N., and the Pakistani government says nearly 1 million people have received no help of any sort. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)AP - Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.


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Many Pakistanis still waiting for flood aid (AP)

September 4th, 2010

Pakistani flood survivors wade through floodwater in Sujawat, Sindh province, Southern Pakistan, Sept 4, 2010. The floods, spawned by heavy rains weeks ago in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and elsewhere in the mountains of northern Pakistan, have killed more than 1,600 people and affected about 20 million people. The waters are still swamping rich agricultural land in the southern provinces of Sindh and Punjab. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)AP - Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.


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Death toll rises to 65 in attack on Pakistanis (AP)

September 4th, 2010

** ALTERNATIVE CROP OF QUT111** People who were injured by an explosion lie down on road during a Shiite procession in Quetta, Pakistan on Friday, Sept. 3, 2010. Police say a blast at a Shiite procession has killed a score of people in southwestern Pakistan in the third deadly attack this week on the country's religious minorities.(AP Photo/Arshad Butt)AP - The death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospitals, police…

UN: 1 million more displaced by Pakistan floods (AP)

August 27th, 2010

A Pakistani man watches his herd after he was displaced by flooding, on a roadside in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)AP - Hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis were fleeing a southern district Friday after the bloated Indus River crushed a levee and flooded new areas, officials said. The U.N. said…

China landslide toll rises to 700; Pakistanis flee (AP)

August 10th, 2010

Explosives are set off to clear away debris stemming the flow of a river after a mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - The death toll from landslides in northwestern China more than doubled to 702 Tuesday, as rescue crews in three Asian countries struggled to reach survivors from flooding that…

Northwest Pakistanis Angered by Insufficient Flood Response (Time.com)

August 3rd, 2010

Time.com - Already ravaged by the Taliban, the country’s northwest is now pummeled by waters that are affecting as many people as the rebellion has

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UN says deadly floods affect 1 million Pakistanis (AP)

July 31st, 2010

A woman sits outside her house flooded by heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said it was the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - Rescuers trying to reach thousands of Pakistani flood victims were hampered by deluged roads and damaged bridges Saturday, though there were signs that waters were receding in parts…

UN says floods affect 1 million Pakistanis (AP)

July 31st, 2010

A woman sits outside her house flooded by heavy monsoon rains in Peshawar, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan on Friday as the government said it was the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The United Nations says devastating floods have affected 1 million people in Pakistan.


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Pakistanis blame US after shrine attack kills 42 (AP)

July 2nd, 2010

Family members of victims comfort each others after suicide bombers attacked a popular Muslim shrine in the Pakistan city of Lahore late Thursday night July 1, 2010, killing more than 30 people and wounding 175 others, the city's top official said. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - A pair of suicide bombings that killed 42 at a popular Sufi shrine in Pakistan’s east stirred outrage among many in this terror-scarred nation Friday. Several blamed the…

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