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The floods, which are leaving more than a thousand dead in Pakistan, continue.

From the Asian country they are asking for international help to deal with the situation.

The monsoon rains have left more than 1,000 dead, of whom 119 have died in the last 24 hours, according to the National Disaster Management Authority.

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'Monster rains': floods in Pakistan leave nearly 1,000 dead

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'Monster rains': floods in Pakistan leave nearly 1,000 dead

Some countries such as the United States, the United Kingdom or the United Arab Emirates have begun to send aid, but from the country they ask for more funds.

Speaking to the BBC, Home Office official Salman Sufi has said the country is desperate for international support.

"Pakistan has been dealing with economic problems, but now, just when we were about to overcome them, the monsoon disaster has struck," he said.

In the northwest of the country, thousands of people have fled their homes after rivers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province overflowed their banks, causing severe flash floods.

"The house that we built with years of hard work began to collapse in front of our eyes," Junaid Hkan, 23, told AFP.

"We sat on the side of the road and watched our dream house sink."

Sindh province in the south-east of the country has also been severely affected,

with thousands of people displaced from their homes

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no food

The total level of devastation in Sindh province cannot be ascertained at this time, but people who lived there describe it as the worst disaster they have ever survived.

Floods are frequent in Pakistan, but the rains these days have been abnormal.

They were more powerful and a local official has described them to the BBC as "floods of biblical proportions".

In several cities all the houses are under water and only the tops of the tallest trees can be seen.

The needs of the people who have survived are varied, ranging from food to money to be able to acquire the most basic.

In some areas, children have contracted waterborne diseases.

A 12-year-old girl, along with her little sister, had not eaten for more than a day when a truck with humanitarian aid appeared.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has said that 33 million people have been affected by the floods, which is 15% of the country's population.

Sharif has stated that the losses from the floods are comparable to those of 2010 and 2011, the worst recorded so far.

new floods

The south of Pakistan, which has already been hit by heavy flooding, is preparing for new floods this Sunday due to the flooding of the riverbeds after the monsoon rains.

The Indus River continues to grow fed by dozens of streams and torrents overflowed by rain and melting glaciers.

The doors of a major dam in the area have been opened to deal with the flow of more than 600,000 cubic meters per second.

The authorities have warned that the torrent will arrive in the coming days, which will worsen the situation of millions of people already affected.

Pakistani officials attribute these extreme events to climate change and claim that the country is suffering the consequences of irresponsible environmental practices in other parts of the world.

In northern Pakistan, thousands of people living near rivers were ordered Saturday to evacuate.

Helicopters and rescue teams continued to remove neighbors who were still at the scene on Sunday.

"We had to rescue children and women," rescuer Umar Rafiq told AFP from Swat Valley.

In this tourist area, known for its rugged mountains, many rivers overflowed their banks and washed away dozens of buildings, including a 150-room hotel.

Pension owner Nasir Khan, already affected by the 2010 floods, said he had lost everything.

"The part of the building that was saved 12 years ago was submerged in the water," he explained to AFP.

These monsoon rains, which occur every year between June and September, are comparable to those of 2010, in which some 2,000 people died and left almost a fifth of the country inundated, according to the authorities.

On Friday, the government declared a state of emergency and mobilized the army to deal with this "catastrophe of unprecedented magnitude", in the words of the Minister of Climate Change, Sherry Rehman. Pakistan is especially vulnerable to climate change.

It ranks eighth among the countries most threatened by extreme weather events, according to a study by the NGO Germanwatch.

These floods take place in a very complicated context for the country, whose economy is in tatters and is going through a deep political crisis, after Prime Minister Imran Khan was ousted in April by a motion of no confidence in Parliament.

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