The misery continues for Pakistan flood victims

Survivors of Pakistan's worst-ever floods, which forced at least 10 million people from their homes, are desperate for money to rebuild their houses.

Failure to rehabilitate flood victims nearly two months after the disaster has the potential of triggering instability in a country which is fighting a full-blown Islamist insurgency.

Authorities have promised to pay 100,000 Pakistani rupees ($1,165) in compensation to each displaced family.

But the need for the cash-strapped government to raise much of the billions of dollars for reconstruction will put the nation under strain for years.

The Regional Co-ordinator for Caritas Asia, Father Bonnie Mendes who has recently come back from a visit to the flood ravaged country told Vatican Radio that "even now children are suffering from dysentery and malaria, from eye diseases, sores and some of them will die."

He added that now in the rehab phase, "it's going to be very difficult, how do we build houses for so many millions."