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| India-Pakistan |
| Flood assistance farce |
| 2014-10-07 |
| [DAWN] THE government has made a sudden appeal for cash assistance from donor agencies to deal with the destruction caused by the latest floods. The appeal comes a week after the donors had been assured that no assistance would be required. It has been delivered to them through a bureaucrat in the finance ministry, instead of by the minister himself, who, it seems, is too busy in a roadshow to raise funds for the Diamer Bhasha dam project. The donors want a detailed damage assessment, as well as an action plan for rehabilitating the victims, before the request can be entertained. The authorities say that a variety of flood relief funds have been set up by the federal government as well as the Punjab government, and the donors should simply deposit cash assistance into these. |
| Posted by:Fred |