UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in flood-ravaged Pakistan today to boost relief efforts as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate.

Pakistani medical teams were rushing to the deluged north west today amid fears that cholera could spread after the worst floods in the country's history that have already killed up to 1,200 people.

PAKISTAN dispatched medical teams yesterday to the deluged northwest amid fears that cholera could spread after the worst floods in the country’s history that have already killed up to 1,500, an official said.

THE death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.

The death toll from massive floods in Pakistan has risen to 1,100 people, officials said today.

Rescue workers struggled today to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by massive flooding in Pakistan’s north-west that has killed over 900 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said.

Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said today as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims.

A suicide bomber struck today near the home of a Pakistani provincial minister whose only son was recently killed by suspected Islamist militants, officials said. Seven people were killed and 25 wounded.

A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Pakistani army recruits returning from a game of soccer today, killing nine of them.

More than 7,200 villages have been inundated and some 176,000 people left homeless by monsoon floods in India’s western Gujarat state, where a dead lion washed up with dozens of other casualties, officials and news reports said today.