Pakistan: A Possible Future

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Ali thought to himself: should I report this? He had just walked by a conversation between two men regarding an effort to plan attacks against U.S. troops guarding the new massive embassy in Islamabad.

What do I do?

Ali and his family lived in the Northwest Frontier Province, in a small village about 100km away from the Swat valley. His family was quite poor. They lived in a small shack and he and his parents both worked in the fields. They basically kept to themselves and their family, and were apolitical in every sense of the word. They assumed that since they were all uneducated and illiterate, that they had no place in speaking out about their country.

Help Flood Victims in Pakistan

More people have been affected by the flooding in Pakistan than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. Almost 2,000 dead, 2 million homeless, and over 14 million affected - one out of every ten in the country. One-fifth of the country is flooded. All of this as most Pakistanis start fasting for Ramadan. The UN is calling for a massive increase in help from the international community. The U.S. media doesn't seem to be really covering the event, but after the break, we've listed a bunch of ways you can help.