New Delhi:
It's Pakistan's worst floods in living history and the UN has only managed to raise one third of the amount meant for aid relief despite that Pakistan has been reluctant to take aid from India. (
Read: Pak refuses to accept flood aid directly from India)
And a week after Prime Minister Manmohan Singh spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani reiterating India's offer of 5 million dollars in flood relief. Government sources have now told NDTV that Pakistan has refused to accept flood aid directly from India.
India will now send the 5 million dollars it has pledged to the UN.
The UN has said an estimated eight million people continued to be in need of humanitarian aid while nearly five million were without shelter.
Martin Mogwanja, the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Pakistan, said: "We are working day and night to bring relief to millions of women, men, and children, but the floods appear determined to outrun our efforts. We have been scaling up, but must scale up even
further."
The worst floods in Pakistan's history were triggered by heavy monsoon rains that began on July 22.
Flash floods initially devastated the north-west and central parts of the country before swollen rivers made their way south, causing a second wave of flooding.
The floods have killed over 1,700 people and affected 20 million. (with PTI inputs)