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Video: One year on, Scotland’s response to the Pakistan floods

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Just over a year ago Pakistan was hit by its worst ever floods which destroyed more than a million homes and left ten million homeless and destitute. Two thousand people perished. But Scotland didn't turn its back on this terrible tragedy. The Ucare Foundation - the charity run by Pakistan-born ex-Labour MP Mohammed Sarwar - and colleagues from Glasgow's Central Mosque raised £750,000 to help the flood victims. Just over a year on, 700 houses have been built in four different regions in Pakistan to give families, who lost everything, new hope. One of the villages re-built is Akhbarabad, outside the town of Charsadda, in the far north of Pakistan. Up where it meets Afghanistan. Ex-BBC Scotland Reporter Bob Wylie went to Charsadda with Mohammed Sarwar on a fact finding mission.

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