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Pakistans floods巴基斯坦洪灾A ruined country一个被毁的国家The flood water is draining, but it leaves dreadful problems behind洪水正在褪去，但形势亦然严峻FOR anyone grown weary of Pakistani suffering, a moment’s reflection is due. The destruction caused, by two months of flash-flooding in the country’s north and estuary-sized overspills along the Indus river, is on a vast scale (see article). At its height the inundation, still receding in Sindh and southern Punjab, covered a fifth of the country. Over 20m people have been affected, more than by the 2004 Asian tsunami and the 2005 Kashmir earthquake put together (though