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But forget about political arguments for a moment and listen to Khadija Shaban, who I reached in Karachi early Friday morning her time.
“I fear that a lot of children are going to die very soon. There is dirty water everywhere,” she told me, a heavy sigh audible in her voice. “It is really heart-wrenching. People will tie a family member to a rock to sink in the water because there is no place to bury them.”
Shaban is the head of FOCUS Pakistan, an on-the-ground emergency response partner of the credible Aga Khan Development Network, a progressive Islamic organization with a long history in Pakistan.
“All the bridges have been broken, so providing relief is becoming a huge issue,” she said. “We can get to the people in the towns, but the people in the valleys are very difficult to reach.”
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