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Internal Displacement Monitoring
Centre - 26 August 2011 - http://www.internal-displacement.org/idmc/website/news.nsf/(httpIDPNewsAlerts)/81545F617EC133A0C12578F8002BB51B?OpenDocument#anchor1
Pakistan:
Massive New Displacement Follows Flooding in Sindh Province
Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by floods in Sindh as their
homes and crops have been destroyed. Sindh was the province worst affected by
the devastating floods of 2010. Many people who were displaced last year are
still struggling
to recover. ____________________________________________________________
FLOODS - YEAR AFTER YEAR IN PAKISTAN
- MEMORIES OF 2010
MOTHER GIVES PERILOUS BIRTH TO TWIN
BOYS DURING FLOODING
Zahida
Parveen feeds her twin boys, Muhammad Usman and Muhammad Uman, as she takes
refuge with her husband, Javed, and daughters Fiza, 7, Humera, 8, in the home
of Javed's father in Kot Addu, Pakistan. The story of the boys' birth is one of
great peril. Their mother took refuge in her father-in-law's home as she began
going into labor. As floodwaters began swamping the land around that home, she
began to experience problems giving birth. A Pakistani army helicopter was
rushed to the scene and as it was circling to find a safe place to land, she
gave birth to Uman. As it landed, Usman was born. Mrs. Parveen was carried on a
charpai, or makeshift bed, through floodwaters to the helicopter, which rushed
her to a military hospital. "The floods, were devastating, we lost an acre
of cotton crops, and it destroyed our home, but the floods also bought
happiness for me with the birth of my first twin boys,'' she said. (Daniel
Berehulak/Getty Images)
Zahida
Parveen feeds her twin boys, Muhammad Usman and Muhammad Uman, as she bought
happiness for me with the birth of my first twin boys,'' she said. (Daniel
Berehulak/Getty Images)