Rescuers are struggling to reach 27,000 people still cut off by floods, while hundredes have died and many have lost everything. There are fears that diarrhoea and cholera will spread among the victims. Food is scarce and water supplies have been contaminated by the floods. Muddy brown waters have submerged fields, bridges and roads and the crops are destroyed. The devastation continues. There is a desperate need for temporary shelters, clean drinking water and toilets to avert a public health catastrophe.

To wipe the tears, imagine, who reached to sit with them in the hour of misery? It is Angelina Jolie, who is on a two-day visit to the flood-hit country as the personal envoy of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The 35-year-old actress travelled to Nowshera town in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and met Afghan refugees and distributed flood relief materials. She appealed to the rest of world to extend aid to the affected people. She said that she was shocked by the level of destruction in the country. It is an extraordinarily complex situation.

These are very, very long, extended situations that need our constant support for a very, very long time.