Pakistan can’t tackle floods challenge alone: Shahbaz Bhatti

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s government alone cannot tackle the flood tragedy until the International community comes forward to share the burden. The calamity has hit people from all faiths, caste and creed and the enormity of the calamity is beyond all calculations, said federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti while talking to Daily Times on Monday. Bhatti said that he visited the flood-hit areas in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and described it as “a disaster of enormous magnitude and unimaginable proportions... a mega disaster which requires the world to mount a mega response”. Bhatti said that the disaster has eclipsed the scale of devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 earthquake in Pakistan and January 2010 earthquake in Haiti put together. Bhatti said the devastated flood has ravaged all the crops, homes, and communication lines. Electricity system, water supply and bridges making excess to remote areas have been collapsed. “So many villages and towns have been wiped out, scores of people have been killed and injured and the number is still rising,” he said.