Nearly 1000 people killed in Pakistan floods as diaspora in Australia bands together to help

Displaced people carry belongings as they wade through a flooded area in Jaffarabad, a district of Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province. Source: AP / Zahid Hussain/AP

A state of emergency has been declared in Pakistan, where heavy monsoons and flash flooding has killed 1,000 people. As the country's prime minister calls for international aid, members of the Pakistani diaspora in Australia are gathering supplies to send to those hardest hit.

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