TOKYO -- At least 11 million Pakistanis, 5% of the country's population, are facing severe food shortages due to heavy rains and subsequent flooding that started in June, and the number of people going without sufficient sustenance is likely to expand, Rathi PalaKrishnan, deputy director of the World Food Program in Pakistan, told Nikkei Asia.
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Pakistanis wade through flooded fields on Sept. 4 in Balochistan: The U.N.'s World Food Program plans to bring food aid to 2 million people by mid-October but is still raising money. © Photo courtesy of WFP/Balach Jamali
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