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Pakistan reopens key highway to speed aid to flood victims

Volunteers from the religious charity group Al-Khidmat Foundation Pakistan arrange food and other items to be distributing to flood affected families, in Shabqadar near Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. The death toll from three months of record-breaking floods in Pakistan rose to over 1,400, officials said Tuesday, as the minister for climate warned the prolonged monsoon rains will continue lashing this impoverished nation in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad) In this handout photo released by Press Information Department, Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif, second right, talks a student at a makeshift school inside a tent in the flood-hit area of Suhbatpur in Baluchistan, Pakistan. Sharif on Wednesday promised the country's millions of homeless people that the government will ensure they are paid to rebuild their homes and return to their lives after the country's worst-ever floods. (Press Information Department via AP) FILE - Victims of heavy flooding from monsoon rains crowd carry relief aid through flood water in the Qambar Shahdadkot district of Sindh Province, Pakistan, Sept. 9, 2022. The United Nations says weather disasters costing $200 million a day and irreversible climate catastrophe looming show the world is “heading in the wrong direction.” (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File) People from flood-affected areas wait to receive food distributed by the Saylani Welfare Trust, in Lal Bagh, Sindh province, Pakistan, Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022. The death toll from three months of record-breaking floods in Pakistan rose to over 1,400, officials said Tuesday, as the minister for climate warned the prolonged monsoon rains will continue lashing this impoverished nation in the coming weeks. (AP Photo/Pervez Masih)