Pakistan races to protect two towns from surging floods

Pakistan races to protect two towns from surging floods by Hasan Mansoor

KARACHI, Sept 7, 2010 (AFP) - River defences in Pakistan's flood-hit south were bolstered Tuesday in a bid to save two towns from catastrophic flooding as the UN warned the world community must help the militant-hit nation recover.

Eight million people remain reliant on aid handouts to survive, six weeks after monsoons caused devastating floods in the country's worst disaster in living memory.