{"id":16204,"date":"2010-10-07T16:05:25","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=16204"},"modified":"2010-10-07T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T11:05:25","slug":"of-flood-rains-and-resilience-the-struggle-to-survive-in-the-wake-of-the-pakistan-flood-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2010\/10\/07\/of-flood-rains-and-resilience-the-struggle-to-survive-in-the-wake-of-the-pakistan-flood-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Of flood rains and resilience: The struggle to survive in the wake of the Pakistan flood disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A family finds shelter from the flood devastation at a FOCUS relief camp in Sindh. Photo: Ismaili Council for Pakistan \/ Al Jaleel <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Compiled by Noor Muhammad<\/strong><\/p>\n

It was an early August morning, and the sun gleamed over the beautiful village of Khurzgh, in Northern Pakistan. As a helicopter prepared to land, the villagers \u2014 including young children and women dressed in colourful clothes \u2014 ran towards the helipad. Their numbers swelled to the hundreds as the rotors came to a halt and the doors opened.<\/p>\n

The seats of the helicopter had been removed to make space for relief goods. Bags of flour, mixed food packs and boxes containing cooking oil were neatly tied to the floor.<\/p>\n

Among the crowd was 41-year-old Rehman Dost Khan and his two children, residents of the nearby Bhaang village.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have lost everything,\u201d he said, the lines on his forehead narrowing in agony. \u201cMy house, all my cropped fields, the house of my elder brother \u2014 everything \u2014 was destroyed by the flood.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Rehman Dost Khan was alive and speaking was a blessing in itself, because the flood had struck at night and his family had narrowly escaped catastrophe by abandoning their house and fleeing the submerging region.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are thankful to FOCUS for bringing us the relief we needed,\u201d said Dost Khan, referring to Focus Humanitarian Assistance, the Aga Khan Development Network affiliate that delivered a month\u2019s worth of food aid to him and his loved ones. However, he continued to worry about the future of his family. A retiree from the Pakistan Army, he had invested his pension money in the construction of fields for cropping. \u201cWe had a very small piece of land for farming, but now that is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

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