Pakistan reopens highway for aid to flood victims

Officials say Pakistani engineers backed by soldiers have reopened a key highway linking southwestern Baluchistan province to flooddevastated areas in the south.

Clearing the highway on Thursday will give aid workers a new route to speed badly needed supplies to Pakistan’s homeless and others after this summer’s floods killed 1,508 people. Meanwhile, the United Nations’ children agency said 528 children were among those killed in the floods.

Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif was in Uzbekistan to brief a security group formed by Beijing and Moscow on the disaster.