MSNBC - The worst floods in living memory in Pakistan have affected more than 3 million people so far and claimed the lives of more than 1,400 people, the U.N. Children's Fund said on Tuesday. The catastrophe, which started almost a week ago, is likely to deepen as more rains are expected and conditions are ripe for the outbreak of diseases. It has also called into question once again President Asif Ali Zardari's effectiveness and commitment to stabilizing U.S. ally Pakistan.
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Zardari is already juggling many risky issues, from a Taliban insurgency to chronic power cuts in the nuclear-armed nation.
Pakistani authorities are struggling to help victims of the flooding, many of whom have lost their homes and livelihood and say they had not received any official warnings that raging waters were heading their way.
But the government issued flood warning on Tuesday as rising water levels threatened to overwhelm one of the country's biggest dams.
Disaster officials asked residents in the northern outskirts of Peshawar city, near the Warsak Dam, to leave their homes.
"If needed, forced evacuation will be started," said Adnan Khan, a spokesman for the Disaster Management Authority of Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province.
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