In Pakistan, flood waters threatened to engulf two towns in southern Pakistan today. Water had broken the banks of the Indus near Thatta and also broken out of a feeder canal running off the river, compounding the danger in the southern province of Sindh. The water has not reached the Thatta town up to now but it is approaching. The floods are Pakistan's worst-ever natural disaster in terms of the amount of damage and the number of people affected. More than six million people forced to flee their homes s the water flows south. The disaster has killed about 1,600 people, inflicted billions of dollars of damage to homes, infrastructure and agriculture sector. Floodwaters have beginning to recede across most of the country as the water flows downstream.