Hungry flood-hit Pakistanis protest lack of help
Hundreds of hungry families blocked a highway in Pakistan’s flood-hit south on Wednesday, demanding the government provide more food as the UN warned of a “triple threat” to desperate survivors. Up to 500 people from a government-run relief camp in Thatta city, in the worst-hit province of Sindh, blocked the…
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