Toll And Fury Rising From Pakistan Floods -- New York Times
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — With rescue operations still under way, the damage from Pakistan’s worst floods in generations mounted on Monday as public fury rose in the country’s most volatile province.
The official death toll remains under 800, but on Monday the minister of information in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa — formerly North-West Frontier Province — estimated the true number at 1,500. Another provincial official said 1.4 million people had lost their homes. As much as 70 percent of the region’s livestock is gone.
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