News Update: UN Agencies Appeal for More Aid for Pakistan

UN officials from the Children's Fund and the World Food Program say that aid is still very much in need across Pakistan, even though floodwaters have started receding, reports Voice of America online.

Jean-Maurice Ripert, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's special envoy to aid Pakistan, told reporters: "Indeed, four weeks after the onset of this disaster, we see the wave of this tsunami still rolling through Pakistan - destroying houses [and] lands, claiming lives on its way. And it has yet to reach the ocean."

According to Ripert, Pakistan has received $1 billion of assistance and donation pledges so far, though it is not nearly enough.

The World Food Program's Josette Sheeran told Voice of America that an additional $90 million was still needed to "double the three million people who have received a month's supply of food."

"We still find many of the roads and bridges damaged and destroyed," Sheeran said. "And so it is not necessarily making the operations easy in the areas where there is some receding or [making] planting possible."

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