6 million Pakistani flood victims need aid to survive: UN

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http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/million+Pakistani+flood+victims+need+survive/3380676/story.html

Agence France-Presse August 10, 2010


GENEVA - The UN said on Tuesday that aid for Pakistan's flood victims would focus on the survival needs of six million people, as it prepared to ramp up the relief effort with an international appeal for funds.


"We are focusing for now on six million people who are in need of direct humanitarian assistance, meaning that they need it to survive," said Elisabeth Byrs, a spokeswoman for the UN's Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs.


Byrs said the figure of 14 million affected was a broader measure given by Pakistani authorities that included the direct and indirect impact of the country's worst flooding for living memory, extending from the homeless to longer term damage such as crop losses or loss of earnings.

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1. And some geopolitical types are worried the Taliban and/or alqaeda

will be giving out aid and thus influencing the victims of this flood.