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Guardian: Pakistan's government has compared the impact of the country's devastating floods to the country's partition from India as it revealed more than 20 million people had been made homeless by the disaster. The prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, said the country faced challenges similar to those during the 1947 partition of the subcontinent into Hindu-dominated India and Muslim-majority Pakistan in which about 500,000 people were killed in mass violence and thousands of families were ......
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Impact of Pakistan floods as bad as 1947 partition, says prime minister
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 14th, 2010
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