Naseba's ten-year-old daughter, Imam, died about a week ago from malaria. Naseba was sitting on a rope bed in the courtyard just outside her house that had been partially destroyed by the floods. Her husband found a boat to come pick them up, brought them to an embankment and he drove them to the hospital. Because the highways were washed out it took three hours.
A few weeks into this year’s monsoon season in Pakistan, it became clear that the rains were unlike anything the country had experienced in a long time.
The resulting once-in-a-generation flood has marooned entire villages and killed 1,500 people, leaving a trail of destruction, starvation and disease.
Guest: Christina Goldbaum, an Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent for The New York Times.
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