Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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Pakistani flood victim Mohammed Nawaz hangs onto a moving raft as he is rescued by the Pakistan Navy Aug. 10 in Sukkur, Pakistan.

 

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A Pakistani flood victim sleeps on a hammock in a flooded area of Shah Jamal village on Friday, Aug. 13. Water levels receded in Pakistan but survivors of record floods endured grim conditions in makeshift tent cities, as the UN appealed for millions of dollars in urgent foreign aid. Pakistan's government says 14 million people have been affected by the floods.

 

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A combination of satellite images shows Nowshera, Pakistan, and the surrounding area on Oct. 7, 2007, on the left and on Aug. 5, 2010, on the right, after flooding struck the region.

 

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Flood-affected people wade through water for higher ground in Muzaffargarh near Multan on Aug. 13.

 

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Pakistani flood affected villagers wash themselves after digging out their belongings from the rubble of their houses in Aza Kheil near Peshawar on Friday.

 

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Pakistan army soldiers distribute food among flood survivors to break their fast on the first day of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in Muzaffargarh on Aug. 12. The normally festive time is marked this year in Pakistan by misery.

 

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A flood victim searches for belongings in the remains of his destroyed home in Nowshera on Aug. 16. The United Nations warned on Monday that up to 3.5 million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and said it was bracing to deal with thousands of potential cholera cases.

 

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Flood victims, seen from an Army helicopter, take refuge under a date tree in Pakistan's Rajanpur district in Punjab province on Sunday, Aug. 15. The floods, triggered by torrential monsoon downpours just over two weeks ago, engulfed Pakistan's Indus river basin, killing up to 1,600 people.

 

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A World Food Program worker sleeps on top of flour sacks in a hanger at an airbase in Pakistan's northwest Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, as poor weather prevents U.S. military helicopters from delivering aid to flood victims on Aug. 15.

 

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Pakistani boys displaced by floods stand in the smoke as health workers spray against diseases at a camp in Nowshera on Saturday, Aug. 14. Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said 20 million people had been affected by the worst floods in the country's history as the United Nations confirmed the first cholera case.

 

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A flood survivor collects wood from the debris caused by floods in Nowshera on August 14.

 

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A flood-affected girl walks outside her tent in the compound of a college converted to a camp by the Pakistani Army on the outskirts of Nowshera on Aug. 14.

 

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Flood victims run towards a Pakistan Army helicopter to grab aid being dropped on Aug. 14 in Sindh province, Pakistan.

 

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Flood victims hang on to the back of a truck while evacuating from Pakistan's Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province on Aug. 16.

 

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A flood victim holding her sibling cries after having her donated rice snatched from her by passing vehicles, along the roadside in the Muzaffargarh district of Punjab province on Aug. 16.