Aid pleas after Pakistan cyclone
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Hundreds of thousands in Pakistan are now stranded without help four days after a cyclone hit coastal areas.
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Workers in the Pakistani city of Karachi struggled on Monday to clear roads of fallen trees and wreckage and to restore electricity after a weekend wind and rain storm killed more than 200 people.
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The High Commissioner of the Maldives in London appeals for aid to the stricken islands after severe flooding.
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Trucks carrying aid rolled into Karachi on Monday after the death toll from violent storms and flooding along Pakistan&#39;s Arabian Sea coast rose to at least 235 people, officials said.
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Military helicopters plucked flood-hit Pakistanis from rooftops Thursday as bad weather began to clear after a cyclone that officials said had affected 800,000 people.
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ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan offered relief and rescue assistance to India in the wake of seismic sea waves that killed thousands of people on its southern coast, as the nuclear-armed rivals began two-day peace talks yesterday.
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Pakistani rescuers struggled Wednesday to reach tens of thousands of people left homeless by a tropical cyclone that devastated much of the country&#39;s coastline and killed 19 people.
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Relief workers battled rain and choppy seas Tuesday to deliver food and medicine to the country&#39;s northeast, while officials raised the death toll from last week&#39;s back-to-back storms to at least 740 people.
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The devastation caused by Sunday&#39;s tsunami in South Asia has caused many Fairbanksans to come forward asking how they can contribute to relief efforts, according to a local Red Cross representative.
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A massive aid operation is continuing to bring food and supplies to tens of thousands made homeless in southwest Pakistan after a dam burst, killing at least 60 people and leaving hundreds missing.
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Pope John Paul II appealed for swift international aid to help thousands of victims from Sunday's massive tidal waves that swamped coastal areas across southern Asia &#151; triggered by the world's most powerful earthquake in 40 years.
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Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf asked the international aid community on Thursday for an extra $800 million to cover reconstruction costs after a devastating earthquake a year ago.
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A cyclone hit the coast of Pakistan on Tuesday, dumping torrential rain over a thinly populated region days after about 230 people were killed when a storm lashed the country's biggest city, Karachi.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistan launched a relief  operation for 20,000 people stricken by torrential rains in the  southwest, as floods and avalanches killed over 260 nationwide  so far, officials said on Saturday.
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Authorities in Pakistan and India  prepared for more severe weather on Monday, evacuating people  from low-lying areas, after weekend storms and flooding killed  more than 350 people across the region.
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Disease threatened thousands of flood survivors in Pakistan's southwest, officials said, as freak rains which have killed around 350 people across the country continued to pour down.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistan stepped up search and  rescue operations on Sunday for tens of thousands affected by  flash floods after the heaviest rains in the country in two  decades, in which close to 300 people have been killed.