Dubai: While the international community is pondering how to provide emergency relief to Pakistan, millions of flood-affected people are without food or shelter.
It is now feared that the worst humanitarian crisis in Pakistan may lead to social unrest, threatening the integrity of the country if immediate emergency aid is not made available to starving people.
"Millions of hungry and homeless people are suffering not just because of massive floods, but mainly due to poor governance and very slow response from the international community," a top official told Gulf News from Islamabad on condition of anonymity.
"We don't have the resources to cope with a disaster of this huge magnitude. The world community has to hurry up ... lest it's too late."
The UN General Assembly finally met in New York yesterday to discuss how to hasten the delivery of aid, having received just over half of the $460 million (Dh1.69 billion) appealed for last week.
