Angry flood survivors in Pakistan today blocked a road to protest against the slow delivery of aid, as a forecast of more flooding increased the urgency of the massive international relief effort.

Authorities were warning of more flooding this week in Pakistan while heavy rain lashed victims living in makeshift camps, adding to the urgency of a massive international relief effort under way.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged the world to speed up assistance to flood-ravaged Pakistan yesterday as the 20 million people made homeless grew increasingly desperate, and new torrents inundated villages.

Pakistani flood survivors already short of food and water began the fasting month of Ramadan today, a normally festive, social time marked this year by misery and fears of an uncertain future.

THE United Nations appealed yesterday for$459 million (€356m) in aid for flood-hit Pakistan, warning of a second wave of death among sick, hungry survivors unless help arrives quickly.

THE Pakistan floods could affect more people than the world’s last three great disasters combined, the UN warned yesterday.

The Pakistan floods could affect more people than the world’s last three great disasters combined, the UN warned today.

Pakistan’s government faced rising national anger today as it continued to appear overwhelmed by the scale of floods that have killed at least 1,500 and affected millions more.

FLOODS and landslides across Asia plunged millions into misery yesterday as rubble-strewn waters killed at least 127 in north-western China and four million Pakistanis faced food shortages amid their country’s worst-ever flooding.

Pakistan is on red alert today for extreme flooding in its rich agricultural south.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto visited her ancestral village today to pay respects at her father’s tomb, her first trip outside Pakistan’s biggest city since an assassination attempt against her killed 143 people nine days ago.

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a courtroom in troubled south-western Pakistan on Saturday, killing a judge and 14 others, police and other officials said.

At least 11 people died in Pakistan when they were knocked off the roof of a crowded train or electrocuted after religious flags they were carrying to an Islamic festival became entangled in an overhead power line.

Police have accused 23 people of arson and damaging property in the torching of two churches during a protest about the burning of Islam’s holy book in a southern city, an official said today.

Pakistani security forces arrested hundreds of Islamic hard-liners and virtually sealed off the capital Islamabad today, before using gunfire and tear gas to disperse a Prophet Mohammed cartoon protest that had been banned by the government after a wave of deadly riots.

Three trains collided in a deadly chain-reaction after a conductor misread a signal in southern Pakistan, killing at least 107 people and wounding hundreds more in the country’s worst crash in more than a decade.