Taliban violence increases as the people are unhappy with the amount of aid they are getting from the government
The Floods killed nearly 1600 people directly while many others died of disease or malnutrition.
Twelve million people were affected in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab provinces, while a further two million were affected in the Sindh Province.
26300 houses were destroyed, leaving many homeless.
The UN estimates that hundreds of millions, and possibly billions of dollars will be needed to restore the lives of the people. (
Damage to structures was estimated to exceed US$4 billion (€2.5 billion), and wheat crop damages were estimated to be over US$500 million (€425 million).
1.4m acres (557,000 hectares) of crop land had been flooded across the country, and huge amounts of grain was washed away and more than 10,000 cows have perished, and as many people there rely on agriculture for income, the country's economy will be greatly affected.
The power infrastructure of Pakistan also took a severe blow from the floods, which damaged 10,000 transmission lines and transformers, feeders and power houses in different flood-hit areas. Flood water inundated the Jinnah hydro power station and 150 power houses in Gilgit. The damage caused a power shortfall of 3.135 gigawatts.
The World Health Organisation reported that 10 million people were forced to drink unsafe water.
Floods damaged an estimated 2,433 miles (3,916 km) of highway and 3,508 miles (5,646 km) of railway and repairs are expected to cost at least 158 million US dollars and 131 million US dollars, respectively.
On 7 September 2010, the International Labour Organisation reported that the floods had cost more than 5.3 million jobs, stating that "productive and labour intensive job creation programmes are urgently needed to lift millions of people out of poverty that has been aggravated by flood damage"
Public building damage is estimated at 1 billion US dollars. Aid donors estimate that 5,000 schools were destroyed.
Total economic impact may have been up to $43 billion.
Negative Impacts of the Floods
Taliban violence increases as the people are unhappy with the amount of aid they are getting from the government
The Floods killed nearly 1600 people directly while many others died of disease or malnutrition.
Damage to structures was estimated to exceed US$4 billion (€2.5 billion), and wheat crop damages were estimated to be over US$500 million (€425 million).
1.4m acres (557,000 hectares) of crop land had been flooded across the country, and huge amounts of grain was washed away and more than 10,000 cows have perished, and as many people there rely on agriculture for income, the country's economy will be greatly affected.
The power infrastructure of Pakistan also took a severe blow from the floods, which damaged 10,000 transmission lines and transformers, feeders and power houses in different flood-hit areas. Flood water inundated the Jinnah hydro power station and 150 power houses in Gilgit. The damage caused a power shortfall of 3.135 gigawatts.
The World Health Organisation reported that 10 million people were forced to drink unsafe water.
Floods damaged an estimated 2,433 miles (3,916 km) of highway and 3,508 miles (5,646 km) of railway and repairs are expected to cost at least 158 million US dollars and 131 million US dollars, respectively.
Public building damage is estimated at 1 billion US dollars. Aid donors estimate that 5,000 schools were destroyed.