The United Nations says there could be a second wave of deaths from the floods in Pakistan because of water borne diseases.
Meanwhile, Strauss is urging spectators at Edgbaston to donate money to an emergency fund for those affected by the floods in Pakistan.
Obviously our government and -- has done quite a bit in terms of aid and help in what were obviously very tragic events and tragic floods in Pakistan.
Pakistan has suffered devastating floods in the past two years.
BBC: Pakistan floods 'kill more than 400' over past fortnight
Monsoon floods in Pakistan over the last two weeks have killed more than 400 people and affected more than 4.5 million others, the government disaster relief agency has said.
BBC: Pakistan floods 'kill more than 400' over past fortnight
Almost a year after floods devastated Pakistan, swamping 5.8 million acres of farmland and displacing millions of people, Ashaq Malik, who grows cotton, sugarcane and wheat on 865 acres in Punjab province, has reason to feel optimistic.
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That may be because foreign policy is often about more immediate problems (Britain's William Hague has devoted much effort to securing a preferential trade deal for Pakistan to help it recover from its floods).
In 1971 violence between Hindus and Muslims in what was then East Pakistan, exacerbated by economic collapse, floods and famine, sent 10m Hindus fleeing into India, which considered the exodus the result of a deliberate policy of Pakistan's government.
In the floods that started in July in Pakistan 21 million people were impacted, over 3 million lost their homes and their entire source of livelihoods, entire roads and infrastructure plants were wiped out in certain pockets, 1.5 million hectares of standing crop were destroyed.
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From Pakistan's northern mountains to its southern plains, the floods have washed away roads, bridges and railway, while entire villages have been rubbed out and countless livestock drowned.
Pakistan is still grappling with the effects of last year's floods, the country's worst ever, affecting 20m people.
Roshaneh Zafar is hoping that the business of clean water will give the women of Muzaffargarh in Punjab in south west Pakistan a source of income after all their possessions were wiped out in the floods earlier this year.
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The Secretary-General made brief arrival remarks to the media, saying he had come to underscore the solidarity of the United Nations and the whole international community with the people of Pakistan, who are enduring a time of trial because of the disastrous and unprecedented floods.
And the floods were a major challenge to the -- not only the people of Pakistan but also to our strategy, because we had adopted an approach to change how we were doing aid to be much more responsive to what the Pakistanis themselves needed and wanted as opposed to what we thought they should need or want.
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Pakistan will be very pleased with their win, particularly with everything that is happening back home with the terrible floods.
In the aftermath of 2010 floods, UNESCO has initiated a major project "Strategic Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan" for upgrading the flood forecasting and early warning system, and for the risk mapping of flood plains along the Indus River, in cooperation with the government of Japan.
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