100,000 Children at Risk in Pakistan, Sindh Flooding Continues

Juan Cole 09/21/2010

5 more villages were drowned in Sindh on Monday, and more people were cut off from the outside world by waters splashing down from a full lake that could well overflow and wreak yet more damage on Sindh Province.

Iran’s PressTV has video:

Meanwhile, UNICEF is warning that 100,000 children made homeless by the floods are in danger of starving to death for lack of food.

Please donate via Oxfam America for urgent Pakistan relief work.

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page