20 Monday, August 21, 2017 for ’s ‘’ Pakistani nation pays homage uth Pfau, a German to Dr Pfau’s extraordinary who devoted her work. She will always be fondly lifeR to combatting in remembered. We have lost Pakistan, was buried with full a national hero,” state honours on Saturday, Pakistan’s foreign office in an unprecedented service spokesman Nafees Zakaria for a foreign Christian in the Saturday said in a statement. Muslim-majority country. Working with the Pfau, who died at the government, Pfau expanded age of 87 on was leprosy treatment centres known locally as Pakistan’s in more than 150 cities and Mother Teresa. She came towns across Pakistan, training to the southern port city of doctors, treating thousands of Karachi in 1960 and spent half victims and helping establish a a century taking care of some national programme to bring of the country’s sickest and the disease under control. A hearse carries the coffin containing the body of Ruth Pfau poorest people. She was the Ruth Pfau She was honoured by the founder of Marie Adelaide Patrick’s Cathedral in the city, state with the country’s two been born in Germany, but her of the Heart of Mary order, break the journey in Karachi, Leprosy Centre in Karachi, where hundreds of people highest civilian awards, the heart was always in Pakistan”. founded during the French where she visited a lepers’ where she was being cared for gathered to pay their respects. Hilal-e-Imtiaz and the Hilal- It was after the horrors of Revolution. colony. Pfau was also praised at the time of her death after a The casket, draped in the e-Pakistan. World War II in her native Not required to take the veil for her work in helping short illness. national flag, was carried by Prime Minister Shahid Germany that Pfau decided or live in seclusion, she ended victims of devastating flooding Pakistan President army personnel and Marie Khaqan Abbasi earlier to dedicate her life to serving up in Pakistan by chance. En in 2010, which left millions attended Adelaide staff and given a expressed his sadness at her humanity, becoming a doctor route to work in , visa of people homeless across the state funeral service at St 19-gun salute. “The entire death, saying “she may have and joining the Daughters complications forced her to swathes of the country. At least 700 killed in South

Indian villagers attempting to cross flood waters with the help of rope and empty canisters next to a washed away portion of a bridge at Palsa village in Asia floods Purnia district in Bihar state New Delhi in some areas. “The total death evacuate people in at least two More than 450,000 people Naznin, head of the control landslides and floods during he confirmed death toll toll stands at 205,” Kumar said. districts. were living in relief camps in room at the department of the monsoon season that hits passed 700 and more than Nearly 400,000 people were Both the states border Assam after the second wave disaster management, said. India’s southern tip in early aT million were driven from staying in state-run shelters, , which was also hit by of floods to hit the state in less She said 31 of the country’s June and sweeps across South their homes as large swathes with an estimated 10 million landslides and floods that killed than four months. 64 districts have been hit by the Asia for four months. of South Asia reeled under affected by the deluge, the 135 people. Another 30 are The deluge has badly floods, forcing nearly 300,000 A massive landslide in monsoon floods yesterday, worst since 2008 when nearly reported to be missing. damaged railways and roads. people to flee their homes India’s Himachal Pradesh state officials said. 300 people were killed. At least 20 percent of the and take refuge in makeshift swept two passenger buses off At least 100 deaths were Some 10,000 emergency 28 million people in the ‘Situation improving’ shelters. a hillside, killing 46 people on reported overnight across India workers and soldiers were landlocked Himalayan state Three more bodies were The state flood forecasting August 13. and following the supporting local officials in are affected by what the United retrieved in a northern village and warning centre said some Eight others, including latest in a series of deluges relief and rescue operations. Nations has called the worst in West Bengal state, where 30 percent of the country has two soldiers, were killed in since August 10, as the annual In neighbouring Uttar Pradesh floods to hit the country for 55 people have now died. been inundated, the worst Uttarakhand state in landslides monsoon hit the north and east state 69 deaths were reported as 15 years. More than a million have been flooding for a decade. on Monday. of the region. two million residents remain In India’s eastern state of affected, although officials say But the situation in the Nearly 350 people died in Anirudh Kumar, a top affected by the floods. West Bengal and in the remote the situation is fast improving. country’s north and west was the first wave of floods that disaster management official in Nearly half of the 75 districts northeastern state of Assam, In Bangladesh at least 115 improving quickly because the began in mid-July in India’s India’s eastern state of Bihar, in the state have been hit by 122 people have died with people have died and some level of major rivers was falling western states of Gujarat and said 53 bodies were recovered the floods and authorities nearly three million affected 5.7 million people have been fast, officials said. Rajasthan and several remote as water levels started to recede are seeking military help to by floods. affected by the floods, Shamim Every year hundreds die in northeastern states.(AFP)