Pakistan today called on the international community to rush aid to one million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts that still more rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming days.

Floods due to a cyclone and rain have left as many as 100 people dead in south-western Pakistan, a senior relief official said, as the government appealed for donations of tents to shelter about 1 million people left homeless by the flooding.

Helicopters were today being used to airdrop urgent relief aid to some of the more than 400,000 people battered by monsoon-spawned flooding in coastal areas of Pakistan.