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By Mohammed Hanif
BBC News, Pakistan
The word terrorism does not even exist in Seraiki and Sindhi, the languages of the majority of the people who have been rendered homeless.
Three weeks after the start of the floods in Pakistan, a fifth of the country is under water. More international aid is now reaching the country - but the world's media finds it hard to stop talking about terrorism.
Many Pakistanis who have not been directly affected by the floods ask each other this question: Is it a punishment from Allah? Or is He just testing our faith?
One of the many religious scholars who pop up on our television screens during the holy month of Ramadan was asked the same question last week.
He shook his head and answered with the kind of hokey wisdom only TV preachers are capable of: "If you have transgressed, He is punishing you. If He likes you He is testing you."
Not everyone is reaching out for a divine explanation though.
In southern Punjab, poet Ashu Laal linked the fury of the river Indus to our collective greed and corporate rape of the land.
These areas are of no strategic interest to anyone because they have neither exported terrorism nor do they have the ambition to join a fight against it 
People have built roads, bridges and houses on the river bed and, when the Indus returned after many decades, it could not find its old path.
It went around like a mad dog, sniffing for its old habitat and devoured everything on the way.
From the BBC. Read more.
BBC News, Pakistan
The word terrorism does not even exist in Seraiki and Sindhi, the languages of the majority of the people who have been rendered homeless.
Three weeks after the start of the floods in Pakistan, a fifth of the country is under water. More international aid is now reaching the country - but the world's media finds it hard to stop talking about terrorism.
Many Pakistanis who have not been directly affected by the floods ask each other this question: Is it a punishment from Allah? Or is He just testing our faith?
One of the many religious scholars who pop up on our television screens during the holy month of Ramadan was asked the same question last week.
He shook his head and answered with the kind of hokey wisdom only TV preachers are capable of: "If you have transgressed, He is punishing you. If He likes you He is testing you."
Not everyone is reaching out for a divine explanation though.
In southern Punjab, poet Ashu Laal linked the fury of the river Indus to our collective greed and corporate rape of the land.
These areas are of no strategic interest to anyone because they have neither exported terrorism nor do they have the ambition to join a fight against it People have built roads, bridges and houses on the river bed and, when the Indus returned after many decades, it could not find its old path.
It went around like a mad dog, sniffing for its old habitat and devoured everything on the way.
From the BBC. Read more.
