MULTAN (AFP) -- An unemployed father-of-four who lost his home in Pakistan's devastating floods died Monday after setting fire to himself outside the prime minister's home, officials said.

Muhammad Akram, 30, doused his body in petrol and lit himself with a match after being denied entry to Yousuf Raza Gilani's private residence in the central city of Multan at the weekend, police said.
“We tried to save his life but he could not survive because his condition was serious,” Multan's main Nishtar Hospital doctor Zafar Niazi told AFP.
“He tried to commit suicide yesterday. Police took him to hospital and registered a case against him for attempted suicide, but he expired today,” senior police official Mehmoodul Hasan told AFP.
Police and relative Abdul Sami said Akram lost his house in the massive flooding last month and that his family is living in the open without a tent.
Relatives said Akram had to care for four children, a wife and two ageing parents at Jeewan Wala village, some 150 kilometers west of Multan, and lost his job as a factory watchman last May.
Akram searched fruitlessly for a job and decided to visit Gilani's home to ask for a job recommendation. The prime minister's security detail pushed him back and he set himself on fire, Sami said.
World powers made fresh aid pledges for Pakistan's flood disaster on Sunday, after a two-billion-dollar UN appeal, but pressed the stricken nation to fully account for the money.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an ""urgent"" global response to ""one of the biggest, most complex natural disasters we have faced in the history of the United Nations.""
While the official death toll remains at just over 1,700 people, UN agencies say about 21 million people have been affected and 12 million need emergency food aid.
Torrential rain began falling in northern Pakistan in late July and the floods have since been moving slowly south, wiping out villages and farmland.
Britain doubled its flood aid to 210 million dollars, the United States said it is now offering 340 million and the European Union 350 million.
Saudi Arabia said it has also donated 345 million in government and public funds. Even Iran allotted 100 million dollars for its neighbor.
But it was not immediately clear whether the two-billion-dollar target was reached at the meeting of over 25 top ministers, including U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Aid groups expressed disappointment at the response.
The UN asked for 460 million dollars in August but quadrupled the figure on Friday because of the scope of the disaster.
""This new appeal extends the emergency relief to six months and includes the crucial element of early recovery for the next 12 months. I call for your urgent response,"" the UN chief said.
""The floods in Pakistan are a global disaster, a global challenge and a global test of solidarity.
""Of course, we know this is happening in a part of the world where stability and prosperity are profoundly in the world's interests,"" he added.
Lieutenant General Nadeem Ahmad, head of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, said the country had only 20 percent of the food and 20 percent of the water needed for the stricken 20 million people.
Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said the world community should multiply the impact of Hurricane Katrina in the United States in 2005 by 100 times to understand the scope of the devastation.
Britain added 70 million pounds to its existing 64 million pounds in emergency aid, taking the total to about 210 million dollars.
Photo: United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (C), Pakistan's Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Qureshi (L) and UN Under Secretary-General for OCHA Valerie Amos prepare to start a high-level meeting about the flood emergency in Pakistan, at UN headquarters, in New York, September 19, 2010. (Reuters photo)
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