It was just last year I wrote an oped in The Durham Herald-Sun titled "Lessons for Other War in Pakistan." At that time, over two million Pakistanis were displaced by the fighting between the government and the Taliban. They escaped the conflict zone, but were soon met by the relentless enemy of hunger and malnutrition.
The UN World Food Programme (WFP) and other agencies have been helping these Pakistanis since that time. Now massive floods have struck their country, a disaster of record proportion. Estimates are that up to 6 million people will need food assistance, but this number could rise even higher. The flooding has destroyed many crops within an already food-insecure country.
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