The Pakistan economy has been in doldrums for the last five years due to political issues , coupled with increasing internal insurgency issues. There are different sects of people living in that country and they do not trust each other. Hence the country is troubled with sectarian violence regularly and the Iraq – Afghanistan problem has only made things worse for Pakistan.
Now the poor country is saddled with massive monsoon floods not seen in the last ten decades. Over 20% of the country is now under water with most of them being the agricultural producing areas. Over two million people have been rendered homeless and a world health organization review has indicated that Pakistan would take years to get back to normalcy in the flood affected areas, as almost everything has been washed out.
If 15% of the population of a country see their belongings and their livelihood vanishing overnight, you can imagine the plight of the country in the following years.
Pakistan may not recover for years together
August - 31 - 2010 - Tuesday
