Us Aid For Pak Flood

• Obama announces $33 million aid for Pak flood

  US President Barack Obama has signed an executive memorandum to provide $33 million for the refugees of Pakistan's worst floods that have claimed over 1,700 lives and affected 20 million people.With this the total US aid to Pakistan for flood relief work has crossed $230 million - the largest foreign donor to the flood-ravaged country.India has pro...

• Pak thanks India for aid, sends mangoes for PM

  Pakistan has finally accepted India's offer of 5 million US dollars as aid for the devastating floods that have hit the country. And has thanked India. Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani on Friday sent five boxes of mangoes to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as a gesture of gratitude.Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, who is in N...

• Floods: US pledges support as Pak appeals for more aid

  The US has pledged its full support for flood-hit Pakistan as Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi today appealed the international community to provide immediate aid to cope with the humanitarian crisis.Qureshi, who is in New York to drum up funding from the international community to combat the humanitarian crisis caused due to the floods, said,...

• Accept Indian aid, no role for politics in disaster: US to Pak

  Asserting that there is no role for politics in disaster response, the Obama Administration has said it expects Pakistan to accept the USD 5 million aid offer from India for its flood relief work."In terms of responding to a disaster, politics should play no role. You have a country (India) that's willing to help (Pakistan), and... we expect that P...