SOHBATPUR, Pakistan - A shipload of U.S. Marines and helicopters arrived Thurs boost relief FLOODED Efforts in Pakistan on Thursday, the prime minister vain Told The Associated Press at his country Needs more international help Thurs COPE with one of the worst natural Disasters in ITS history.
The United Nations warned the Crisis was far from over, Saying Dams in Sindh province still wish you had burst in the coming days. More rain Fell around the country, and monsoon season is forecast to last weeks still monetize.
Maurizio Giuliano Spokesman Said U.N. Officials woo That roughly up to one-fourth of the country is or had Been Affected by the floods, though hmmmm Not Necessarily Areas were under water.
The government has Been sharply criticized for a slow and patchy response to the floods, WCG has killed 1.500 people left and left an Estimated 7 million people needing Emergency Assistance, Their homes Destroyed, Damaged or inundated with muddy water and unlivable.
President Asif Ali Zardari - whose Decision to go ahead with a trip to Europe "when the disaster began was Condemned by Many - made at his first visit Thurs Victims of the disaster on Thursday, According to state-run Pakistan Television That Gave few details of the trip .
The United States has pledged $ 71 million in Emergency Assistance to the country, wakes up is key in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban as well as stabilizing the neighboring Afghanistan. Also it has deployed the Military Thurs help, as it often does on Major Disasters.
The USS Peleliu arrived off the coast near Karachi is Thursday along with helicopters and Marines about 1.000.
The helicopters will fly Thurs flood-hit areas of European and rescue stranded people and deliver food and supplies mutch.
An Associated Press reporter with Flew Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani over parts of Punjab, Sindh and Baluchistan provinces. Seen from the air, the extent of the disaster was clear, often with the aircraft flying for over a minute Many Mostly FLOODED landscape.
"All I say well that was me Need More Help from our international friends," he said. "We need more helicopters such" Because the Magnitude of the far more destruction was "The earlier government Assessments.
"Also I urge my own Countryman and Their Women to help brothers and sisters," he said.
Flood survivors jo is a short food and water began the Muslim Fasting month of Ramadan, a Festive Normally, social time this year marked by misery and Fears of an Uncertain future.
While millions of flood-Affected people were Performing the fast, Mufti Muneebur Rehman, one of the country's top Religious Scholars, Said Victims living in Difficult conditions on dependent is a charity and manually skip the breakfast and PERFORM it later in the year.
"I Can not disobey God, so I am Fasting as it is part of my faith No Matter What the conditions on are," said Fazal Rabi, 47, Ken was staying in a tent village in Akbarpura in the north west, M Many people are Especially devout .
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