Floods to drag up to nine million Pakistanis into poverty ...Kuwait

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Four months after the start of record monsoon rains in Pakistan linked to climate change, the standing water has curdled into a pestilent soup breeding malaria, cholera and dengue. The UN has warned of a "second wave" of catastrophe, with the risk that deaths from waterborne disease and malnutrition will outstrip the 1,700 drowned and electrocuted in the initial cascade. Sindh has been the worst hit by the catastrophic flooding which put a third of Pakistan underwater, displaced eight million, destroyed or damaged two million homes, crippled 1,500 hospitals and clinics and caused an estimated $28 billion in damages. Climate change minister Sherry Rehman said that mo

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