Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, recently visited the north of Pakistan which, among other places, has been devastated by the floods.He flew by helicopter from Islamabad first to Hunza Nagar. After a meeting with villagers, he was off to the Ghizer valley where he saw the reconstruction projects there. In these regions alone over 87,000 people were displaced by floods and subsequent landslides, according to the UNDP. -Photos courtesy UNDP

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