According to US sources, the humanitarian crisis in flood affected southern portions of Pakistan is equivalent to the African famines, where hundreds and thousands suffer due to malnutrition.

The Sindh province in Pakistan is almost under water for the past 6 months and almost one quarter of the children under the age of five are suffering from malnutrition. Reports even suggest that even 6 percent of the total children less than five years of age are underfed.

"I haven't seen malnutrition this bad since the worst of the famine in Ethiopia, Darfur and Chad. It's shockingly bad," said Karen Allen, deputy head of Unicef in Pakistan.

Its been more than six months but these areas are still under water. A major flood affected these regions in August last year affecting atleast 20 million people and swept across 2.2m hector farmland.

The sindh district has worst poverty figures. The property owners are very cruel and the poor peasants are made to toil day and night under their command.

The survey was done by the Pakistan Government to estimate the damage caused by the floods and there has been a delay in publishing the final damage.

Sindh is Pakistan’s third largest province and there exist the worst inequalities and poverty. Around 14 million people left their home and moved to faraway places on the accounts of the flood.

Many western countries including the United States of America provided the aid directly to the flood affected people.