Images: Floods ravage Pakistan

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Pakistani flood survivors take shelter on the high ground at the flooded area of Rojhan District in Dera Ghazi Khan Division of Pakistan on Aug. 27. The death toll from Pakistan's floods, which have officially claimed 1,600 lives, will rise as waters recede and the number of missing are counted, Pakistan's disaster agency said.

 

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People help each other to build their homes destroyed by the floods after they return to their villages when the flood watesr started to recede in Sanawa, near Muzaffargarh, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 26.

 

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A young Pakistani girl, displaced from her home by flooding, assists in preparing dinner for her family on near Sukkur in Sindh province, Pakistan. The country's agricultural heartland has been devastated, with rice, corn and wheat crops destroyed by floods. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been affected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years.

 

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Pakistanis displaced by flooding sit outside tents at a temporary camp operated by the Pakistan Army, in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 26.

 

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Pakistanis displaced by flooding reach for food aid thrown by a volunteer outside a temporary camp operated by the Pakistan Army, in Sukkar, Sindh province, southern Pakistan, on Thursday Aug. 26

 

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Nasiba, 3-months-old, sleeps in a hammock while taking refuge from the flood with her family in a classroom in Sukkur, Pakistan, Aug. 25.

 

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People move to high ground after fresh flood warnings were issued in Jamshoro, Pakistan, Aug. 25. The United Nations has warned, that up to 3.5 million children are at risk from water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan. the organization is preparing to deal with thousands of potential cholera cases. More than 1,500 people across Pakistan have been killed and hundreds of thousands stranded due to flash floods triggered by the ongoing spell of monsoon rains.

 

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Workers unload relief goods from a truck at an army relief camp at Sultan Colony in Muzaffargarh district, Punjab province, Pakistan on Aug. 25. Pakistan will have to demonstrate it can spend relief funds transparently and well if it wants more help in rebuilding after its massive floods, the U.S. aid chief said.

 

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One and a half year old Mudasar, suffering from diarrhea, is consoled by his mother as receives treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital, Aug. 23, in Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan. Officials say as many as 20 million people have been affected during Pakistan's worst flooding in 80 years.

 

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Pakistanis displaced by floods reach out for milk during an aid distribution at a temporary camp in Sukkar, Pakistan on Aug. 25.

 

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Pakistani flood-affected villagers wait to board an army boat as they evacuate Kamria village in the Sindh province, on Aug. 23.

 

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A Pakistani boy swims as he tries to keep his food dry in a flooded area near Basira village in Punjab on Aug. 22. U.N. agencies stepped up calls for donors to deliver on their pledges for Pakistan to prevent what UN chief Ban Ki-moon called a "slow-motion tsunami" from wreaking further catastrophe.

 

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A Pakistan Army helicopter flies over the Garhi Khairoo, area near the new flood zone of Shahdakot, Pakistan on Sunday.

 

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A flood victim takes bath in a bucket while taking refuge at a relief camp in Sukkur in Pakistan's Sindh province Sunday.

 

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Flood victims travel through flood waters on Sunday in the village of Shah Jamaal west of Muzaffargarh in Punjab, Pakistan.