Okara, Pakistan — AFP The coursing floods in eastern Pakistan first swallowed Nasreen Bibi’s corn crop, then the cattle that fed on it, and finally her family home. They retreated to the roof to escape the rising water, before fleeing for their lives by boat. “We didn’t bring any of our belongings with us, everything [&...
Kasur, Pakistan — AFP Around 100,000 people have been evacuated from flooded villages in Pakistan’s Punjab province, emergency services have said. Several hundred villages and thousands of acres of cropland in the central province were inundated when the Sutlej river burst its banks on Sunday. Emergency services have been working t...
