Save The Children: Pakistan facing hunger crisis

PAKISTAN faces a hunger crisis as the number of severely underfed children in the flood-hit country rises, charity Save The Children has warned.

More than 12,000 children are now acutely malnourished since heavy monsoon rains devastated large parts of the country in early August, according to UN statistics.

The true figure could be higher still, with experts suggesting that many vulnerable young survivors in remote areas may have slipped through the net. Around 21 million have been affected by the floods that swept through Pakistan in early August. Of those, around three million are children under five, according to the charity.