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The United Nations has for $460 million in urgent aid for Pakistan’s flood . The devastating floods may so far have killed 1,600 people, to UN estimates, but have made 15 million homeless. UN humanitarian John Holmes said half-a-billion dollars of are needed urgently for food, water, tents, blankets and medical . He said: “Our biggest fear is that waterborne - diarrhea, cholera… may start to spread and a much greater death toll amongst the …. We have a huge task in front of us to deliver all that is as soon as possible.” He added: “This $460 million we're asking for from governments around the world is only just the first step for the next few weeks.”

Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN, Abdullah Hussein Haroon, said the is affecting seven times more people than the 2004 Asian tsunami, and the 2005 and 2010 Kashmir and Haiti earthquakes . He said it was urgent people start more aid, but fears many people don’t want to give money because they think it will into the pockets of officials. Many charity workers also worry about the public becoming less to human disaster as they are now so . The chief minister of Pakistan’s badly-hit Sindh province, Syed Ali Shah, : "What we need is substantial foreign aid and not peanuts. The aid being so far is peanuts and not enough to meet the challenge ahead."