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A villager is rescued by a Pakistan's Navy helicopter from flooded area of Ghaus Pur near Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari returned home to a storm of criticism after visiting Europe as his country was gripped by the worst floods in its history. His arrival Tuesday came as thousands of people fled a major city in central Pakistan as rivers threatened to submerge the area.
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A villager is rescued by a Pakistani Navy helicopter from flooded area of Ghaus Pur near Sukkur, in Pakistan's Sindh province, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010. President Asif Ali Zardari returned Tuesday to flood-ravaged Pakistan, where he faced a storm of criticism for visiting Europe as his country was gripped by what his government called the nation's worst natural disaster
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Pakistani flood survivors jostle to get relief supplies provided by Pakistan army in Jaffarabad, Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. The UN appealed for nearly
$460 million Wednesday to provide immediate help to millions of victims of the worst floods in Pakistan in living memory and said
it will need millions more to help rebuild the devastated country.
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Pakistani villager Rasool Bux and his cattle wade through the floodwater to safe area in Alipur near Sukkar on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. The U.N., relying on Pakistani figures, says the number of people affected by flooding over the past two weeks is 13.8 million _ more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, although the death toll in each of those disasters was much higher than the 1,500 people killed in the floods.(AP Photo/Shakil Adil)
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Flood survivors wait for relief supply at a camp in Charsadda, near Peshawar, in northwest of Pakistan, on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. Hundreds of people loaded down with possessions were fleeing floods in Pakistan's most populous province Thursday as the worst monsoon rains in a generation triggered fresh chaos. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)
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Pakistani villager Yusuf Jan sits outside his destroyed house in Majuky village, near Charsadda on Aug. 3, 2010.
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Pakistani women pull a bed through floodwater caused by heavy monsoon rains in a village near Nowshera, Aug. 3, 2010. Flooding spread into the country's heartland Tuesday, as the official death toll rose to 1,500.
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Copies of the Koran are left out in a mosque's couryard to dry, following floods in Majuky village near Charsadda on Aug. 3, 2010.
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A man carries remains of his house destroyed by heavy floods in Dera Ismail Khan, northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010.
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A Pakistani boy holds his younger brother at a camp for flood survivors in Risalpur, Pakistan, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. On Tuesday the World Health Organization said that diarrheal diseases and respiratory infections have increased during the past two days in the flooded regions of Pakistan.
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People jostle to get free food distributed by a trader at a camp for flood survivors Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 in Risalpur, Pakistan.
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Pakistani women show their national identity cards to receive food aid on the outskirts of Peshawar, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010. Afghan refugees complained that they were not receiving relief supplies.
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A Pakistani man gathers up some of his belongings outside his flooded house in Nowshera on Aug. 2, 2010.
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Flood-affected children jostle to get free biscuits distributed on a hilltop in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Pakistan dispatched medical teams to the deluged northwest region amid fears that cholera could spread after the worst floods in the country's history that have already killed up to 1,200 people.
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People carry their belongings as heavy flood destroy their homes in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Officials say as of Monday 1,200 people have been killed, but relief organizations fear the toll could actually be three times that number.
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Pakistani villagers walk trhough rising flood waters near Nowshera, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010.
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People carry their belongings as heavy floods destroy their homes in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug 2, 2010. The government has deployed thousands of soldiers and civilian rescue workers to save an estimated 28,000 people trapped by the floodwaters, distribute food and collect the bodies of the victims.
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Pakistani residents stand by flood water that entered a residential area in Muzaffarabad on July 30, 2010. Flash floods triggered by torrential rains in different parts of Pakistan destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands to evacuate, officials said.
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Men struggle to hold grain storage containers on a makeshift raft in Dera Ghazi Khan, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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A man carries his belongings following heavy floods in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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Pakistan army soldiers control flood survivors who want to go over a makeshift suspension bridge built by the army, after heavy floods washed away the iron bridge in Chakdara, near Mingora in Swat valley, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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A woman washes clothes in flood waters at her collapsed house in Kamp Koroona village near Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010. Pakistan's impoverished northwest has been wracked by the worst floods in the country's history, a disaster that has claimed some 1,100 lives, wiped out whole villages and left families clinging to the tops of collapsed houses in the hope of being rescued.
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An Afghan refugee drags a box containing his belongings through floodwater in Aza Kheil in Nowshera district, Pakistan on Monday, Aug 2, 2010.
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A flood-affected girl stands outside her makeshift tent on a hilltop in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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A girl carries her belongings after her home was destroyed by heavy flooding in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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A little girl cries in a makeshift shelter erected on the roadside following floods in Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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A Pakistani woman holds her child as waits her turn for a medical exam for her son at a local hospital in the flood-hit city of Charsadda, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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Pakistani Mir Zaman sits on a bed next to his flooded house in Kamp Koroona village near Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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A Pakistani boy eats rice in the flood-hit area of Nowshera, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 2, 2010.
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Local residents scramble to recover water bottles dropped from a Pakistan Air force helicopter on Aug. 2, 2010 in Nowshera, Pakistan.
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Displaced Pakistanis mill about a tent camp set up by the army inside a college on the outskirts of Nowshera on Aug. 2, 2010.
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Pakistani men and children gather to receive food at a camp for the displaced set up inside a college on the outskirts of Nowshera on Aug. 2, 2010.
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A girl looks out the back of a vehicle as her family evacuating Nowshera waits in traffic blocked by residents demonstrating against the lack of relief supplies, in Nowshera, Pakistan, Aug. 2, 2010. The International Red Cross estimates that around two and half million people nationwide are affected by the disaster.
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A Pakistani woman prays at sunset by the Ravi river in Lahore on Aug. 2, 2010. Fears are growing about outbreaks of disease among 2.5 million people affected by Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years after monsoon rains killed at least 1,200 people across the northwest.
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A Pakistani boy clears the mud from his home in the city of Nowshera on Aug. 2, 2010. Fears are growing about outbreaks of disease among 2 million people affected by Pakistan's worst floods in 80 years. Unprecedented monsoon rains triggered floods and landslides, sweeping away thousands of homes and devastating farmland in one of Pakistan's most impoverished regions, already hard hit by years of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence.
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Pakistani villagers look at a road washed away by heavy flooding in Kalam, in Pakistan's Swat valley on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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A Pakistani paramilitary soldier controls traffic through a flooded road in Bara Banda near Nowshera, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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Pakistan army soldiers pass a baby across the water as they help people flee from their flooded village following heavy monsoon rains in Taunsa near Multan, Pakistan, on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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Villagers stand on a rooftop as their house collapsed following floods in Taunsa near Multan, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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A man collects wood to be used as fuel for cooking food, near a car overturned by heavy flooding, in Nowshera on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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A Pakistani girl asks officials for food in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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People stand on the remains of a bridge washed away by flood water in Nowshera, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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In this aerial view, flood water covers the land as far as the eye can see, around Taunsa near Multan, Pakistan, Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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Pakistani villagers carry what's left from their collapsed houses following heavy flooding in Dera Ismail Khan, Pakistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010.
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Pakistani villagers carry their belongings as they wade through deep floodwater in Qasim Bella, outskirts of Multan, Pakistan, on Saturday, July 31, 2010.
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A woman from the flood-affected area Charsadda sits beside her children at a camp set up in a school by provincial authorities in Peshawar, Pakistan on Saturday, July 31, 2010.
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An aerial view shows Nowshera city submerged in floodwater caused by heavy monsoon rains, Friday, July 30, 2010. Rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.
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Pakistan Air Force personnel load relief goods into a C-130 plane to send to Peshawar for flood-affected people, at Faisal airbase in Karachi, Saturday, July 31, 2010.
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People cross a damaged portion of a main highway in flood-hit Charsadda, Pakistan on Saturday, July 31, 2010. A government official said Saturday that as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims, some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases.
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A Pakistani woman kisses a newborn child rescued by Pakistan army helicopter in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010. Boats and helicopters struggled to reach hundreds of thousands of villagers cut off by floods in northwest Pakistan. The government said it was the deadliest such disaster to hit the region since 1929.
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A Pakistan army helicopter evacuates stranded villagers in Nowshera, Pakistan on Friday, July 30, 2010.
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Stranded Pakistani villagers wait for help near Nowshera, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010.
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Pakistani villagers seek safer ground near Nowshera, Pakistan on Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing hundreds.
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Pakistani residents carry their belongings after salvaging them from their partially submerged tents as they walk through floodwaters in Lahore on July 22, 2010, after heavy monsoon rains.
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Pakistani commuters travel through a flooded street in Lahore on July 12, 2010.
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