Plea for help as rains hit aid efforts
Helicopters were grounded in the northwest while rescuers rushed to evacuate families in the poor southern farming belt of Sindh, where officials were readying for a deluge that could burst the banks of the swollen Indus river.
New downpours hammered the northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa yesterday, with experts predicting yet more rain to come, adding to the misery of the millions made homeless by the destructive floods.
