When the UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon described flood-ravaged Pakistan as the worst natural disaster he had ever seen, he was not merely describing the extent of the devastation. He was also underlining the extent to which the outside world has yet to adequately react to what the UN describes as the most catastrophic natural disaster in its history.
Given Haiti’s devastating earthquake earlier this year, the Burma cyclone two years ago and the tragic Asian tsunami of 2004, that is an astonishing statement.
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