Months on, Qambar-Shahdadkot remains submerged under floodwaters.

LARKANA -- 'We have to use for all our needs the same saline and highly contaminated floodwater that inundates our village for the past three months and do without electricity,' said Abdul Hakeem Sakhani, whose family had taken shelter on Suprio Bund in the wake of flood.

The massive volume of floodwater coming from Balochistan through Hamal Lake, Flood Protective Bund, Main Nara Valley Drain and other large saline drains had forced a vast population to leave their abodes and take shelter on Suprio Bund, he said.

He and his family live in a ragtag shelter on the bund where most women complained that they had not received ration, tents, medical aid and financial assistance since the calamity hit them. 'The winter is round the corner but we have no blankets to protect us save from cold,' they said.

Pir Mohammad Solangi, 60, said that he fractured his hip bone and was...