For three days members of the Reuters Pakistan bureau are traveling down the Indus River valley surveying the extent of destruction from Pakistan’s worst ever natural disaster. Photographer Faisal Mehmood shares his thoughts:

When the water started coming, I started going out for two or three days at a time, and working. I saw people who had left their homes. Some families who had left one or two people behind to guard their houses and land; they said they were waiting for help from the government

Many people went to live with relatives or to the camps, and were living in tents.

I started shooting in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, in areas like Nowshera. People were complaining then about the aid – they were saying, “The government is getting money from around the world, but the money is going to the government and not to us”.

They were saying that after other disasters before, like the earthquake, they knew money was coming from around the[...]

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