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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Aid pours in but UN warns of long road ahead for Pakistan AFP - 1 hour 22 minutes ago Send IM Story Print ISLAMABAD (AFP) - – UN chief Ban Ki-moon praised the global community as emergency donations for Pakistan neared 500 million dollars, but warned the flood-stricken nation faces "years of need". The Financial Tracking Service, a UN database that aims to track all donations, showed late Friday that 490.7 million dollars in funding has been collected, with another 325 million dollars pledged. The United States has given the most, followed by Saudi Arabia and Britain. The UN, which has raised just over half of its 460-million-dollar appeal target, led a meeting on Thursday to rally support for Pakistan -- hit by a disaster which the UN's Ban described as a "slow-motion tsunami". On Friday the UN chief welcomed the donations, saying: "The generosity of countries and individuals will make a real difference in the daily lives of millions of people. Related article: Shelter crisis looms in Pakistan "We must keep it up. Pakistan is facing weeks, months and years of need." The floods have left nearly 1,500 people dead in the nuclear-armed country of 167 million -- which is a top US foreign policy priority on the frontline of the US-led war against Al-Qaeda. Its weak, democratically-elected government has faced an outpouring of public fury over sluggish relief efforts and there are growing fears that losses of up to 43 billion dollars could bring economic oblivion. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, who has been appealing for help in the US, said Friday that it was important to look not only at emergency funding but at long-term needs. "I would say the initial response was slow because the world was not aware of the magnitude of the challenge. But now I think it is filtering in," Qureshi told the "PBS NewsHour" on US public television. "But that's only the beginning. We have to look at the recovery and the rehabilitation and reconstruction costs as well," he said. Eight million flood survivors in desperate need of food, shelter and clean drinking water require humanitarian assistance to survive, as concerns grow over potential cholera, typhoid and hepatitis outbreaks. Just over half of the money raised for Pakistan has come from the UN's emergency appeal fund launched on August 11, while the rest came via bilateral aid, chiefly from Saudi Arabia, charities or private organisations and companies. According to the FTS, 263 million dollars has been donated via the UN appeal -- 57 percent of its target -- with the lion's share of that total, 88 million, coming from the United States. The United Kingdom has donated 34.7 million via the UN fund while Australia has given 26.6 million and the European Commission 18.6 million. "It is very likely that the need for donations will strongly increase because, since our estimate (of August 11), the number of people in need of immediate humanitarian aid has risen from six to eight million," Maurizio Giuliano, spokesman for the UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Islamabad, told AFP. The UN will have to revise its target within 30 days following the launch of the appeal, Giuliano said. "We are working on it," he said, adding that the UN had increased its estimate of the number of people without shelter from two million to six million in the first 10 days. "We have already provided shelter for a million people (106,000 tents and 70,000 blankets) and ordered shelter for a further 2.4 million, which is in the pipeline," he said. "We have more than doubled the rate at which we are delivering relief but, since August 11, the number of people who need emergency help has undoubtedly more than tripled. We are in a race against time," he added. The UN World Food Programme said it urgently needs helicopters to get food to millions of flood victims who remain cut off by the high waters, although weather forecasters say the monsoon systems are easing off. The agency warned that the floods have killed or are threatening millions of livestock, and launched an urgent appeal for animal feed. The Pakistani-American community is asking the US government to step up assistance, calling it a key opportunity to improve the US image in Pakistan. They asked for President Barack Obama to push ahead with a long-mooted proposal to give preferential access to Pakistani textiles -- a key export hit hard by floods -- and to forgive Pakistan's 1.5 billion dollars in debt to Washington. 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