More aid reaches Pakistan as deaths from floods cross 1,200 mark

A girl takes refuge after her home was hit by floods in Shikarpur district of Sindh Province (AP)

Planes carrying fresh supplies have arrived in flood-ravaged Pakistan as the death toll from the disaster surged past 1,200, officials said.

The ninth flight from the United Arab Emirates and the first from Uzbekistan were the latest to land in Islamabad overnight as a military-backed rescue operation elsewhere in the country reached more of the three million people affected by the flooding.