Pakistan still inundated

Three weeks after this photo was taken, the humanitarian situation in Pakistan remains dire. This photo of a submerged city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the northern province which was the first to be hit by massive flooding, is being replicated throughout the flood zone.

Three weeks after this photo was taken, the humanitarian situation in Pakistan remains dire. This photo of a submerged city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the northern province which was the first to be hit by massive flooding, is being replicated throughout the flood zone.

The humanitarian situation in Pakistan remains dire. The situation in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in the north-western provinces--where the massive flooding began--is being replicated throughout the flood zone. Punjab, Balochistan, and now Sindh province, have since been innundated. In all, 1/5 of the country is under water.

"It's hard to understand the scale of this emergency," said Dan Toole, the UNICEF Regional Director of South Asia, after touring the region.

The area under water, as of last week, was the combined size of Switzerland, Austria and Belgium. And on the perimeters of the water are hundreds of thousands of families clinging to dry ground. They need water, food, shelter, and medicines. UNICEF is supplying 1 million people with clean water daily and supporting vaccination and mobile medical teams.

UNICEF requires $141 million to deal with the immediate needs of the displaced. About a quarter of that has been pledged to date.