Peshawar, Pakistan - Anger was growing Wednesday among the survivors of Pakistan's deadly floods over the slow relief work in the devastated areas.

Devastating floods have killed an estimated 1,500 people and displaced more than 3 million over the past week, leaving many short of essential supplies.

Hundreds of people on Wednesday held a protest rally in Nowshera, one of the worst hit districts in the north-western province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, chanting slogans against the government for failing to supply them with food and much-needed medicines.

The demonstrators blocked a highway and pelted stones at passing vehicles.

'We are sitting here empty handed, no money and no food,' said flood victim Jalal Khan in Nowshera, located some 35 kilometres east of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's provincial capital Peshawar.

'Our children are dying but the hospitals have no medicines, not even the vaccine for cholera.'

The government and aid organizations said they were distributing packets of food and medicines in the affected areas. But the refugees complained that the aid was insufficient, and not all was getting through to those in need.

Thousands of troops and volunteers were hampered from reaching the flood-hit areas by damaged roads and bridges. Many areas, particularly in the mountainous Swat valley, remained inaccessible despite the receding waters.

President Asif Ali Zardari has also come under heavy criticism from the flood-affected population as well opposition parties for visiting France and Britain while the country saw its worst flooding for 81 years.

'What sort of man he is. He has no heart, no sympathy for his own people,' said Abdullah Jaan in Nowshehra. 'We are dying here from floods, hunger and diseases and he is visiting his palaces in Paris and London that he has bought by sucking the blood of this poor nation.'

He was referring to Zardari's visit to his family's stately home in northern France. The president stayed at the 16th-century chateau for two hours before flying to London.

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