UN Makes Appeal for Pakistan Flood Victims

(11 Aug 10 - RV) The United Nations is appealing for $459 million to provide immediate help to millions of flood victims in Pakistan.

The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said «the worst monsoon-related floods in living memory» has affected more than 14 million people and at least six or seven million require immediate humanitarian assistance.

The head of the Asia Programme at CAFOD, Collette Fearon says the threats of exposure and disease are the most urgent of all those facing the people affected by the crisis…