The funds will provide 5.2 million people with food, water, sanitation, emergency education, protection and health support, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a video statement played at the Foreign Office (FO), calling the flooding a “colossal crisis”.
Key developments
- NDMA says 1,136 have died since June 14
- 75 dead, 59 hurt in last 24 hours
- Provinces, particularly Sindh, suffer damage of over Rs355bn
- High-level flooding likely in River Indus at Chashma, Taunsa, Guddu and Sukkur
- Flooding to continue in River Kabul near Nowshera during the next 24 hours
- UN issues $160m flash appeal to help flood victims in Pakistan
- FM Bilawal says the country has become “ground zero” of global warming
- Water levels receding in KP rivers
- Ahsan Iqbal says it might take five years to rebuild
- COAS Bajwa reaches Swat to monitor flood relief activities
- Canada, Azerbaijan and UK pledge $5m, $1.2m and £1.5m in aid, respectively
- PDMA releases Rs220m for relief measures in four KP districts
The aid, covering the initial six months of the crisis response, will also help to avoid outbreaks of cholera, and to provide food aid to mothers and their young children.
