Pakistan flood disaster – the aftermath

24 August 2010: A Pakistani flood-affected girl, suffering from diarrhoea, is treated at a hospital in Sukkur Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images 24 August: Two pictures released by Nasa shows a 'false-colour image' taken by the Landsat-5 satellite 31 July last year, left, and another taken on 19 August 2010 when the floods had started to reach the Kotri barrage Photograph: NASA/AFP/Getty Images 24 August: A girl sits amid the remains of her house as people start to return to their villages in Chah Kali Wala, near Muzaffargarh, Punjab province Photograph: Matiullah Achakzai/EPA 24 August: A woman displaced by floods, prepares tea amid the remains of her flood-damaged house in near Muzaffargarh Photograph: Matiullah Achakzai/EPA 24 August: An aerial view of an area affected by the floods on the outskirts of Multan Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images 24 August: Flood-affected children at a makeshift camp in Sukkur Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images 24 Auguest: Pakistani volunteers look for survivors after a bus plunged into floodwater in Taunsa near Dera Ghazi Khan killing 17 people Photograph: Saleem Raza/AP 24 August: People return to their villages after flood water receded in Mehmood Kot, near Muzaffargarh Photograph: Matiullah Achakzai/EPA 23 August: Brendan Gormley, chief executive of the Disasters Emergency Committee, and Jane Cocking, humanitarian director of Oxfam, during a press conference in London Photograph: John Stillwell/PA 23 August: A Royal Mail worker holds letters of donations to the DEC Pakistan floods appeal at the Mount Pleasant sorting office in London. The British public had donated £29m by the second week of the appeal Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images 24 August: Villagers displaced from their homes receive food relief from a Pakistani military helicopter on the outskirts of Rajanpur in Punjab Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images 23 August: A Qur'an sits on a bench after it was recovered from a destroyed home in a village on the outskirts of Peshawar Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters 23 August: A Pakistani woman forced to flee the floodwaters carries her grandchild at a makeshift camp near Shadad Kot, in Sindh province Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP 23 August: People stand in a queue for relief food, at a makeshift camp in Sukkur Photograph: Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images 21 August: People ride a motorbike through a floodwater with the aid of a torch in Visandawali village, near Muzaffargarh Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images 23 August: Women forced by the floods to flee their village organise their possessions at a roadside near Shadad Kot Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP 23 August: Displaced people clean chicken leftovers for a meal in Nowshera, the main city in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province Photograph: Mohammad Sajjad/AP 22 August: A Pakistani boy tries to keep his food dry as he swims near his village in Punjab province Photograph: Pedro Ugarte/AFP/Getty Images 21 August: A woman carries relief goods as the sun sets at a camp for displaced people in the Muzaffargarh district Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP 23 August: A boy cries while waiting for an evening meal at a centre for flood victims near Nowsheera Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters 23 August: Pakistani men place sand bags to re-enforce a levee to protect the city of Shadad Kot from rising floodwaters, in Sindh province, southern Pakistan Photograph: Kevin Frayer/AP 22 August: The Pakistani military drop food supplies from helicopters to people stranded in Jacobabad, Sindh province Photograph: Rehan Khan/EPA 18 August: A flood survivor plays cricket outside a school building converted into a temporary camp for displaced people in Multan Photograph: Aaron Favila/AP 25 August: Displaced villagers settle in for the evening at an army relief camp at Sultan Colony, near Muzaffargarh, in Punjab province Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Action images 25 August: Three-month-old Nasiba sleeps in a hammock while taking refuge with her family in a classroom in Sukkur Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters 25 August: Villagers hold empty containers as they queue for soup and relief rations at the army relief camp in Sultan Colony, near Muzaffargarh Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images 26 August: Pakistani flood survivors move to safer places in Thatta, near Hyderabad Photograph: Fareed Khan/AP 26 August: A man searches for his belongings amid remains of his house destroyed by the floods in Sanawa, near Muzaffargarh Photograph: Shabbir Hussein Imam/EPA 27 August: People make their way along a major road as the floodwaters recede in the Punjab region, allowing some to return home Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images 27 August: A view of the land after floodwater receded in Kot Adu, Punjab province Photograph: Shabbir Hussein Imam/EPA 28 August: Hundreds of thousands of people flee areas of southern Pakistan as rising floodwaters breach more defenses and inundate towns Photograph: Arif Ali/AFP/Getty Images 28 August: Two men sit on a carriage suspended from a zipline to cross the Swat River after floods washed away the only bridge in the area near Malakand in Pakistan's Swat Valley Photograph: Tim Wimborne/Reuters 30 August: Pakistani children displaced by floods are treated at a makeshift Chinese field hospital in Thatta, Sindh province Photograph: Rizwan Tabassum/AFP/Getty Images 31 August: Girls write over a small blackboard in a makeshift school run by Unicef at a camp for flood-affected people in Sukkur Photograph: Anjum Naveed/AP