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Pakistan: Whole Towns Have Vanished
Lee Sustar interviewing Bushra Khaliq – Socialist Worker,
13 Sep 2010
The catastrophic floods that tore through parts of Pakistan have left an estimated 20 million people homeless. According to UN officials, the scale of the disaster–in terms of the number of people suffering–than the earthquake in Haiti, the tsunami that hit India and the earthquake that hit Pakistan in 2005 combined. Bushra Khaliq is general secretary of the Women Workers Help Line, based in Lahore, and a leading member of the Labor Party Pakistan (LPP), which is working with other left groups to organize a response to the disaster that provides an alternative to the government’s inaction. She talked to Lee Sustar after returning from a visit to some of the regions hit by the flood.
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