Pakistan faces hunger crisis as floods wash away crops, livestock

Damage risks compounding inflation and further straining government coffers

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Flood victims receive boiled rice from relief workers in Charsadda, Pakistan, in late August. The deluge has had a devastating impact on the country's rice and other crops. © Reuters

MIFRAH HAQ, Contributing writer

KARACHI -- Pakistan's farmers and policymakers are beginning to count the agricultural costs of the floods that have wreaked destruction across the country, bracing themselves for an unprecedented food crisis.

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