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The UN has launched an appeal for $357 million to help millions cope with oods in Pakistan that have killed more than 300 people and damaged or destroyed 1.2 million homes in areas still reeling from last years catastrophic ooding.
IN MINUTES
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa:
S AN P A K I N 18T342,721 7, O
POPULATI
Flat Indus plain in east Mountains in north and northwest Balochistan plateau in west Mostly hot, dry desert Temperate in northwest Arctic in north
WELCOME TO
A ected areas
Total Area:
Islamabad
A F G H A N I STA N
Languages in Pakistan
Other 8% Brahui 1% Hindko 2% Balochi 3% Urdu 8% (o cial) Pashtu 8% Siraiki 10% Sindhi 12%
796,095 sq. km
(slightly less than twice the size of California)
Lahore
TERRAIN
AGRICULTURE
Products
INDUSTRIES
Baluchistan province:
Five districts ooded
PA K I STA N
PUNJAB Quetta
iv
CLIMATE
More than 4.2 million acres of land ooded, 1.6 million acres of crops destroyed
In
Sindh province:
1M-3.7M 900,000 - 2M
500,000-900,000 300,000
Pakistan ooding
2000
2003: Sindh province was badly a ected when above normal monsoon rainfall caused ooding. Flooding also hit Karachi. At least 484 people died and some 4,476 villages in the province were a ected.
SINDH
Textiles & apparel Food processing Pharmaceuticals Construction materials Paper products Fertilizer Shrimp
Punjabi
48%
BALUCHISTAN
er
Punjab province:
Dengue fever has killed 28 people and infected 5,000. Outbreak worst in Lahore
Hyderabad
ARABIAN SEA
Fruit and vegetable supplies plunge 75%, prices double. 2005
INDIA
Karachi:
230,000
Sources: CIA World Fact Book; Wikipedia; Graphic News; United Nations
2007: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and coastal Balochistan were badly a ected due to monsoon rainfall. At least 152 people died in KhyberPakhtunkwain in July and August, while 815 people died in Balochistan and Sindh.
SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY TARA CORRAN/QMI AGENCY