Tuesday, August 17, 2010

DTN News: Pakistan TODAY August 15, 2010 - Floods In Pakistan's South Take Huge Toll On Farmers....NSI News Source Info # 947

(NSI News Source Info) TORONTO, Canada - August 15, 2010: Here in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, the tawny waters of the Indus and Chenab rivers have swallowed up vast swaths of verdant rice paddies, sugar cane fields and mango orchards that usually feed the nation.
Floodwaters have submerged the village of Basti Dopiwala, leaving farmers and their families stranded on a small patch of dry land to ponder survival without the fields that sustain them. Along the banks of the Chenab, the river gently laps the boughs of mango trees that stretch to the horizon and are a source of national pride.

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