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    ISAS Briefs

    Quick analytical responses to occurrences in South Asia

    170 : Pakistan Floods: Coping with Disaster

    Rajshree Jetly, Research Fellow at the ISAS

    27 August 2010

    Pakistan is reeling under one of the biggest natural disasters in the history of the country, as large swathes of its territory lies under flood waters. While such floods are devastating under any circumstances, its adverse effects are more in a country like Pakistan that is battling Islamist insurgency, and has a fragile civilian government and a weak economy. This brief examines the challenges that Pakistan is facing in dealing with this calamity.