Tuesday, April 23, 2024

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Pakistani flood-affected people eating their meal at a relief camp set up by Falah-e-Insaniyat foundation, the charity wing of Pakistan’s militant group Jamaat-ud-Dawa in Nowshera, northwest Pakistan, yesterday. The number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million, more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said yesterday. (AP)

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