then relief efforts will fall to militant outfits who are adept at providing basic services quickly, including roving medical vans and tent villages. The less aid that reaches Pakistan in a transparent manner, through organisations such as Oxfam, the UN and relief charity Merlin, the easier it will be for extremists to fill the gap.
We can't let that happen.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has called Pakistan's floods a "slow motion tsunami".
Please don't leave my country to drown.
from Fatima Bhutto: Please don't leave my nation to drown
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There is worse. This year alone, Barack Obama's White House has sanctioned 70 Predator drone attacks on the north of the country, with one suspected attack ordered while the floods raged, killing 12 people. The Pakistani state, eager to be as willing an ally as possible without adding 49 stars to the national flag, has allowed the US to kill and maim from on high, resulting in the deaths of more than 200 unnamed, unindicted and unconvicted Pakistani citizens.
In the past month, Pakistan has also suffered its deadliest civil aviation disaster.
from Fatima Bhutto: New Statesman: Nation on the verge of a nervous breakdown
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