U.N. dramatically hikes Pakistan aid appeal amid 'second wave of death and destruction'

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UN dramatically hikes Pakistan aid appeal amid 'second wave of death and destruction'

GENEVA - The United Nations has revised up its humanitarian appeal for Pakistan five-fold to $816 million from $160 million as it seeks to control a surge in water-borne diseases following the country's worst floods in decades, an official said on Monday. Nearly 1,700 people have been killed in floods caused by heavy monsoon rains and melting glaciers in a crisis that the government and