UN to continue aid efforts despite Taliban threats

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nation assured to continue aid efforts in flood-hit areas despite a US official warned that the Tehrik-e-Taliban in Pakistan is planning to attack foreign aid workers participating in flood relief.

“We will not be deterred from doing what we believe we need to do, which is to help the people of Pakistan,” John Holmes, the UN humanitarian chief, told a news conference at the world body’s headquarters.

“Of course, security issues are there, but we’ll continue to help a very large number affected by the unprecedented floods” Holmes, who is leaving his post, told a news briefing at UN Headquarters in New York.

Holmes said that the United Nations would take “appropriate precautions.”

Replying to a question, Holmes said he had not talked to the Pakistan government about beefing up security for the UN aid workers, but the

Nearly half a million ordered to evacuate Thatta

THATTA: Officials have ordered nearly half a million people to evacuate towns Thursday as the United Nations vowed to forge ahead with relief operations despite threats against foreign aid workers.

Torrential monsoon rains triggered massive floods affecting a fifth of the volatile country — an area roughly the size of England — where US officials have reported threats by the Taliban.

But UN humanitarian chief John Holmes pledged relief operations would continue.

“We will not be deterred from doing what we believe we need to do, which is to help the people of Pakistan,” he told a news conference at the world body’s headquarters in New York.

“Those threats existed before the floods and we’ve always known that the security issues are there,” he said.

As the crisis deepened, villagers in the south fled from where the Indus delta merges with the

DM Canal breached, vast area of Muridkey submerged

Staff Report

LAHORE: A breach has appeared in Dost Muhammad (DM) canal of Muridkey, Punjab; hundreds of hectares of land has been submerged in water, SAMAA reported on Friday.

Heavy rains and floods have wreaked havoc all across the Pakistan. No area is safe from the ongoing devastation of flood water. The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh have been hit hard by floods. Punjab and other areas including Kashmir and Giligit-Baltistan have also faced vast destruction.

Millions of people have lost their homes, relatives, animals, crop and other belongings. Flood water is constantly hitting hard various areas of Sindh and Punjab where millions of hectares ready crops have been also destroyed by the water.

In the latest development, flood water has hit, Punjab’s Tehsil Muridkey in District Sheikhupura, where a breach has appeared in DM Canal and

Flood-devastated Pakistan braces for more storms

PESHAWAR: Pakistan holds crisis talks Wednesday as the country braces for more storms that threaten to deepen a humanitarian disaster after the worst floods in living memory.

With over three million people hit by the flooding, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is to chair an emergency cabinet meeting to speed up the relief work and estimate the damage — expected to run into millions of dollars.

Record rains last week triggered floods and landslides that washed away entire villages and ruined farmland in one of the country”s most impoverished and volatile regions, already hard hit by Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked violence.

The international community has mobilised with offers of aid after the flooding that has claimed the lives of up to 1,500 people and affected 3.2 million, including 1.4 million children, according to UN and Pakistani figures.

“This is a serious humanitarian disaster,” the UN humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan, Martin Mogwanja, told media, saying that discussions were under way to determine whether the situation warranted a fresh appeal for donor aid.

Anger was at boiling point among impoverished survivors complaining they had been abandoned by the government after their livelihoods were swept away and protesting at a “joy ride” visit to Europe by President Asif Ali Zardari.

Pakistan has issued new flood warnings, threatening to compound the misery of hundreds of thousands of desperate victims. Many have been forced to flee disaster areas, their belongings piled into donkey carts and cars, or take refuge in mosques.

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Man Wins Lottery Leaves Wife

Man Wins Lottery Leaves Wife, A South Florida woman whose husband won the lottery and then left her was set to be evicted from her home Tuesday evening.

But Local 10’s camera was rolling when Donna Campbell received an early Christmas present.

Campbell was given until Tuesday to pack up and leave the Miramar home she once shared with her husband, Arnim Ramdass.

“I have asked myself over and over what I did to deserve this, to deserve this ending,” Campbell said.

Ramdass and several other airline mechanics won $19 million in a June 2007 lottery jackpot. Instead of sharing the wealth, Campbell said her husband did not tell her about his win and eventually left her.

A previous lawsuit Campbell filed was dropped. Ramdass stopped paying the mortgage, and their home went into foreclosure.

While they are still legally married, Campbell said Ramdass has vanished.

“I have no idea where he is,” Campbell said.

In fact, the only reminder of the man with whom she once shared this home were wedding pictures on the dining room table. As far as the rest of her belongings, she was prepared to have to let them go.

“I could part with anything in the house. It doesn’t matter. But the Christmas stuff means a whole lot to me,” she told Local 10’s Jen Herrera.

Campbell spent Tuesday packing up pictures and clothing. She said she would leave behind furniture and other large items, as she had no place to go and can’t afford to store them.

But when the folks at Allied Van Lines moving company saw Campbell’s story on Local 10, they offered to move her belongings and store them at their facility for free.

“That would be wonderful. Thank you very much. You made my Christmas,” Campbell told the man on the other end of the phone when she heard the news.

Campbell wants to divorce Ramdass, file suit for her half of the money and serve him with papers, but her husband is nowhere to be found.

“I intend to find him. I will keep trying until I get him,” Campbell said.

In the meantime, she plans on moving in with her sister while her attorney continues to look for her husband to serve him divorce papers.

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