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The United Nations made an urgent plea for helicopters as the death toll from weeks of massive flooding in Pakistan neared 1,600 people Wednesday.

“We need at least 40 additional heavy-lift helicopters, working at full capacity, to reach the huge numbers of increasingly desperate people with life-saving relief,” Marcus Prior of the World Food Programme said in a statement.

Flood waters have washed away critical roads and bridges throughout the country, but especially in the mountainous areas of Gilgit Baltistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, and in the Swat Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

“In northern areas that are cut off, markets are short of vital supplies, and prices are rising sharply. People are in need of food staples to survive.”

The United Nation’s estimates that 800,000 people in need of humanitarian aid across Pakistan are only accessible by air.

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25th August 2010

A MEDICAL team made up of AusAid and Australian Defence Force members left Ipswich yesterday for flood-ravaged Pakistan.

The task force left RAAF Base Amberley in a C-17 Globemaster to establish a medical facility near Kot Addu in Pakistan’s Punjab Province.

The Joint Inter-Agency Medical Task Force (JIAMTF) is comprised of Defence personnel and civilians.

The team includes doctors, nurses, paramedics and support personnel drawn from state health agencies. They are being co-ordinated by Emergency Management Australia.

Defence Minister John Faulkner said the JIAMTF was prepared to operate for an extended period but would maintain close links with the government of Pakistan to ensure it was providing support for only as long as required.

“Our people will be operating under challenging conditions. The task force will apply a range of preventive and force-protection measures so they can complete their mission safely,” he said.

“Australia is currently focused on the immediate needs of the Pakistani people, but we will also assist with the recovery and reconstruction task.”

The deployment builds on the $35 million worth of assistance Australia has already provided.

Earlier this month a humanitarian deployment of C-17s left Amberley carrying essentials such as tents, tarpaulins and plastic sheeting, water purification equipment, generators, and water containers.

Pakistan floods

• The United Nations estimates 2000 people have so far lost their lives from the flood.
• Six million are dependent on food assistance in the disaster and 20 million people have been affected.
• Nearly a month on, high water levels in the country remain a concern, with Pakistan military and international aid workers continuing to build levees around cities.

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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 20 (Xinhua) — The third flight carrying the second batch of humanitarian aid from China arrived at the Chaklala Airbase near the capital city on Friday, bringing relief goods to flood-ravaged Pakistan.

The aid carried by another two flights has been delivered to Pakistan on Thursday as China began delivering the second batch of relief goods worth 50 million yuan (7.4 million U.S. dollars).

The shipments mainly consisted of daily necessities, including 1,200 tents, 30 tons of compacted rations, 23,800 blankets, 1,000 generators as well as medicine, bottled water and water purification equipment.

As a part of the second aid, another consignment of 20 million yuan relief goods will be sent soon by land transportation from China to Hunza victims in north Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan province, said sources from the Chinese embassy in Islamabad.

Receiving the second batch of the relief help from China on Thursday, Secretary Economic Affairs Department Sibtain Fazal Haleem said that China was the first country to deliver aid to Pakistan in this time of need, reflecting the special friendly relations between the two neighboring nations. The first batch of humanitarian aid from China worth 10 million yuan was delivered on Aug. 4.

Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Liu Jian said China is willing to help the flood-hit Pakistanis to weather the historic disaster and China hopes the Pakistani government can make smooth advance in rescue, relief and reconstruction.

Pakistan kicked off an emergency rescue and relief operation on July 30 after declaring an emergency in the flood-struck northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Pakistan is experiencing the country’s worst-ever floods in 80 years which have killed 1,556 people, left 20 million homeless and destroyed over 800,000 homes, according to a government report released Thursday.

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