UN Seeks $460 Million to Help Pakistan Flood Victims

“The flooding in Pakistan has the potential to be significantly more disastrous for the country,” than the 2005 earthquake that killed about 86,000 people, U.S. Defense Secretary christian louboutin pumps told reporters traveling with him to Tampa, Florida. The Pentagon said in a statement tonight that Gates had authorized the deployment of 19 Navy and Marine Corps helicopters to support the flood-relief effort. The 19 choppers will relieve six U.S. Army helicopters already in Pakistan that were loaned from U.S. Afghanistan operations. Afghanistan has supplied four helicopters so far while the United Arab Emirates and Japan are mulling sending some choppers over, Dan Feldman, deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, said yesterday. christian louboutin black Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN, Abdullah Haroon, said the floods have returned some areas to a “primordial” state. “At least 6,000 villages have been “wiped off the face of Earth,” he said at a press conference with Holmes. The rains may continue for another week, Haroon said. “We don’t know how to count” the dead and missing, he said. The American military has helped deliver 436,000 meals prepared according to Muslim religious requirements, 12 prefabricated bridges, 14 rescue boats and six large-scale water-filtration units, the State Department said. christian louboutin sandals