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KARACHI- Pakistan has ordered the evacuation of a southern town after the swollen Indus river broke its banks, nearly a month after devastating floods first struck, an official said on Friday. Floodwaters are beginning to recede across most of the country as the water flows down the Indus, but because of high tides in the Arabian Sea, they still pose a threat to towns such as Thatta, 70 km (45 miles) east of Karachi, in the river delta. The floods have killed almost 1,600 people, forced about six million from their homes and raised the danger of epidemics with the lack of fresh food and clean water. "There was another breach last night which is very close to Thatta and the evacuation has been ordered for the whole city," Riaz Ahmed Soomro, relief commissioner in the southern province of Sindh, told Reuters. Many people from outlying areas had taken refuge in Thatta, which normally has a population of about 300,000, and now had to move again, he said. There is no threat to the

Peoples in Pakistan under threat of life for natural calamity began in late July ISLAMABAD- Parts of northwest Pakistan inundated by the worst floods in 80 years face life-threatening food shortages, a United Nations aid agency said recently. That scenario would create a new crisis for politically-fragile President Asif Ali Zardari, in a country where civilian governments have a poor history of managing crises, leaving the powerful military to step in. World Food Programme (WFP) spokesman Amjad Jameel said the organisations' workers were urgently trying to reach flood areas in the northwest cut off from food supplies, which a U.N. aid agency said devastated the lives of over 3 million people. Before the floods hit, a million people were already forced from their homes in the Pakistani northwest because of fighting between the army and Taliban militants. If the floods deepen the problem, it could set back government efforts to get the people back home in a bid to help stabilise nucl

Devastating floods hit Pakistan: peoples lost lives & in shortage of foods & safe water Life in Pakistan is under threat now for natural disaster