Foreign countries pouring aid to Flood victims . 2022

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Canada announces additional $25 Million for flood-hit people of Pakistan​

Dawn.com
September 14, 2022

In this file photo, Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses a gathering in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on Sep 5, 2022. — Reuters
Canada has announced an additional $25 million of funding in humanitarian assistance to support people and communities affected by severe flooding in Pakistan, an official statement said.

The statement said the new allocation was in addition to the $5m announced last month for humanitarian assistance to support Pakistan. Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had said that his country will continue to provide food, clean water and other essential services through trusted partners.

“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that the Government of Canada will match donations to the Humanitarian Coalition in response to the flooding in Pakistan. Every donation made by individuals to the Humanitarian Coalition and its members until September 28, 2022, will be matched, up to a maximum of $3m,” the statement said.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also announced that Canada will also support development projects in the country.

The funds, raised through the Canadians, will help the Humanitarian Coalition and its members deliver life-saving services, such as emergency food and nutrition assistance and emergency cash and vouchers, as well as necessary water, sanitation, and health services.

The statement said Pakistan had experienced the worst flooding in recent history, and Canada will continue “to help the people of Pakistan by supporting the humanitarian response to the crisis and longer-term development needs”.

Minister for International Development and Pacific Economic Development Agency Harjit Sajjan, during his visit to Pakistan, said “Canadians believe in helping others in times of crisis”.

“This is why the Government of Canada is joining with Canadians in supporting Canada’s partners on the ground in Pakistan that are providing urgent, life-saving assistance in response to this devastating flood.”

Sajjan said his country couldn’t forget flood-hit people, especially women, who had been disproportionately affected. “We continue to look at other ways we can continue to assist those impacted by this tragedy.”

He also announced a $20m contribution to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), via the World Health Organisation and UNICEF, to support polio eradication efforts in Pakistan.

This contribution is part of Canada’s ongoing $190m commitment to the GPEI, the statement added.

 

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$150m pledged, but only $38m received so far​

Dawn
September 15, 2022


• UN coordinator fears even $160m sought by flash appeal ‘won’t be enough’
• Flood dashboard goes online; five dead, 4,000 houses and 300km roads damaged in last 24 hours
• UN chief calls on developed world to ‘lower the temperature’


ISLAMABAD: Responding to a flash appeal jointly launched by Pakistan and the United Nations for an initial funding of $160 million, pledges amounting to $150 million have been made and, so far only $38.35 million of this amount has been converted into assistance, the United Nations’ Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator Julien Harneis said on Wednesday.

“We have been very successful in our fund-raising drive, and pledges of $150 million [are] excellent in the current circumstances. The main donors are the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Denmark, Australia, Singapore and others besides the Central Emergency Response Fund of the United Nations, which raised $10 million,” Mr Haneis told newsmen at a press briefing on relief operations being carried out by the UN.

He said that although “funding is looking good” the needs across Pakistan in this emergency are fast-changing, with the health situation being especially worrying.

“Across the board, we can say this $160 million flash appeal is not going to be sufficient. We are in discussion with the government and other partners, and based on evaluations and assessments, revision of the flash appeal is required,” the UN resident and humanitarian coordinator said.

Saying that the flash appeal is for six months (September 2022 to February 2023), it is targeted at only six million the most affected people from floods and the UN and its partners were focusing on those people. The government has estimated that 33 million people had been affected by the countrywide flooding, Mr Haneis said.

“We are still in early days; not enough has been delivered and we need to speed up the response. UN and NGOs have some reserve monies in hand, those are being redirected to respond to emergencies, but there is a limit how much we can do. So use against scale, we need money quickly that can be converted into assistance,” the top UN official in Pakistan said.

The UN resident coordinator said that a very significant amount of cash grants was being doled out through the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).
He said that the UN had an obligation to be transparent financially and accountable so that food aid did not diversified away from the needy people. Every UN agency and all NGOs have internal control and means of monitoring.

He lauded Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s decision to engage a reputed international accounting company to ensure that international assistance was being used properly, and there were no pilferages.
Editorial: International responsibility

Mr Julien Harneis disclosed that the UN was in discussion with the Sindh government to establish a special committee of the provincial assembly, comprising members belonging to the most affected districts, to see how humanitarian organisations were providing relief to the people of their areas.

Nepal’s aid

Meanwhile, the Nepalese government sent humanitarian relief materials to Pakistan for flood-affected people on a chartered flight of Nepal Airlines on Wednesday. The material contains food items, medicines, garments and other household items.

The government of Nepal decided to send humanitarian relief assistance to Pakistan as a goodwill gesture of Nepal to the government and the people of Pakistan, severely affected by devastating floods.

Saudi help for flood-hit people

Also on Wednesday, the King Salman Centre for Relief and Humanitarian Action on Wednesday launched a Saudi Arabia’s national campaign to provide relief to flood-affected people in Pakistan through its “Sahem” platform.
The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, praised the royal directive of King Salman bin Abdulazeez Al Saud to extend a helping hand to people hit by devastating floods in Pakistan leaving hundreds of people dead, destroying hundreds of thousands of homes and displacing millions of families.

He urged member states, financial and relief institutions and the international community to expedite relief aid to Pakistan’s people, who, he said, were experiencing a humanitarian ordeal that called for stressing the magnanimous Islamic values of solidarity, interdependence and relief.


Published in Dawn, September 15th, 2022

 

[Dalit]

What you smoking?

He is smoking US dollars.

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What can you possibly export apart from stolen dollars to offshore accounts? LOL These beggars aren't even receiving proper aid in time of distress. All they can do is chant the name of their overlord America in every sentence. The UN chief had to be flown in to plead on Pakistan's behalf. The response is for everyone to see.

 

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He is smoking US dollars.



What can you possibly export apart from stolen dollars to offshore accounts? LOL These beggars aren't even receiving proper aid in time of distress. All they can do is chant the name of their overlord America in every sentence. The UN chief had to be flown in to plead on Pakistan's behalf. The response is for everyone to see.

Miftah sells candies and cookies in US markets....obviously, he wants to be in limelight to gain more US markets. .....everyone has their own agenda..........Sir try my cookies and increase my quota

He selling his crappy cocomo in US makert for 50 cents a box.

 

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Experts slam ‘pittance’ in aid to Pakistan as they find climate crisis played a role in floods

An analysis of Pakistan’s devastating floods has found “fingerprints” of the human-made climate crisis on the disaster, which killed more than 1,400 people and destroyed so much land and infrastructure it has plunged the South Asian nation into crisis.

The analysis, published Thursday by the World Weather Attribution initiative, was unable to quantify exactly how much climate change contributed to the floods — which were caused by several months of heavy rainfall in the region — but some of its models found that the crisis may have increased the intensity of rainfall by up to 50%, when looking specifically at a five-day downpour that hit the provinces of Sindh and Balochistan hard.

The analysis also found that the floods were likely a 1-in-100-year event, meaning that there is a 1% chance of similarly heavy rainfall each year.

If the world warms by 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial temperatures — as it is on course to — short rain bursts like those seen in the five-day period will likely become even more intense. The Earth is already around 1.2 degrees warmer than it was before industrialization.

The scale of the floods and the WWA analysis highlight the enormous financial need to address impacts of the climate crisis.

“The kind of assistance that’s coming in right now is a pittance,” Ayesha Siddiqi, a geographer at the University of Cambridge, told journalists at a press conference. “A number of Western economies have argued that they’re suffering their own crises, because of the war in Ukraine and various other issues.”

She described the UK’s original assistance of £1.5 million ($1.7 million) as “laughable.”

The UK has, however, increased its pledge to £15 million ($17 million) more recently. The geographical area that is now Pakistan was part of the former British colony of India until 1947, when the British partitioned the land into two separate dominions.

Fully developed nations bear a far larger historical contribution to climate change than the developing world.

Siddiqi said that the funds coming into Pakistan paled in comparison with the assistance sent after deadly floods that hit the country in 2010.

“The big global news [in 2010] was all about ‘We must help Pakistan or the Islamists will win,’” she said, explaining that there was a fear in the West at the time that Islamist groups would take advantage of the floods’ aftermath to recruit more members. “And this time around, of course, we don’t have the same geopolitical imperative to help Pakistan, and so the aid has really been a pittance.”

Pakistan is responsible for around 0.6% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, even though it makes up nearly 2.7% of the global population, according to the European Union’s global emissions database. China is the world’s biggest emitter, at 32.5%, and while the US is second, accounting for 12.6%, it is historically the biggest emitter globally.

More than 33 million people in Pakistan have been impacted by the floods, which is more than the population of Australia or the state of Texas. The floods destroyed 1.7 million homes, swept away dozens of bridges and turned verdant farmland into fields of dust.

The UN estimates the recovery could cost around $30 billion, which around the same value as the country’s annual exports.

What’s to come

There were limitations to how much scientists could determine about the role of the climate crisis in the floods because the impacted area has such huge natural variability in rain patterns during monsoon seasons. It’s also a year of La Niña, which typically brings heavier and longer rainfall to Pakistan.

The role of climate change in heat waves — which also hit Pakistan and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere this year — is much larger and often clearer to determine in South Asia, the scientists said. A WWA study published in May found that pre-monsoonal heat waves in Pakistan and India were made 30 times more likely by climate change.

“Every year the chance of a record-breaking heat wave is higher than the year before,” said Friederike Otto, co-founder of WWA and a climate scientist with the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London.

The next heat wave in Pakistan will probably have “quite devastating consequences,” she said. “Because even if everything is done now to invest in reducing vulnerability, that takes time.”

She said that while scientists couldn’t determine exactly how much climate change contributed to the floods, it was probably closer to “doubling” their likelihood, as opposed to the 30-fold factor they found with the region’s heat wave.

The issue of who should pay for the impacts of the climate crisis, known as “loss and damage,” has long been a sticking point between developing and some developed nations, and is expected to be central to the upcoming COP27 international climate talks in Egypt.

“I think it’s absolutely justified to say, ‘We need, finally, some real commitment to addressing loss and damage from climate change,” Otto said.

“A lot of what leads to disaster is related to existing vulnerabilities and not to human-caused climate change. But of course, the Global North plays a very large role in that as well, because a lot of these vulnerabilities are from colonialism and so on. So there is a … very huge responsibility for the Global North to finally do something real and not just talk.”

Experts slam 'pittance' in aid to Pakistan as they find climate crisis played a role in floods | CNN

An analysis of Pakistan's devastating floods has found "fingerprints" of the human-made climate crisis on the disaster, which killed more than 1,500 people and destroyed so much land and infrastructure it has plunged the South Asian nation into crisis.

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September 15, 2022...

Pakistan has so far received 100 humanitarian flights for flood relief aid. The details are as follows:


UAE 43
USA 15
Turkey 13
UNHCR 9
China 4
Qatar 4
WFP 3
Saudi Arabia 2
UNICEF 2
France 1
Turkmenistan 1
Uzbekistan 1
Jordan 1
Nepal 1

 

[Wood]

What can you possibly export apart from stolen dollars to offshore accounts? LOL These beggars aren't even receiving proper aid in time of distress. All they can do is chant the name of their overlord America in every sentence. The UN chief had to be flown in to plead on Pakistan's behalf. The response is for everyone to see.

Pakistan has been helped with GSP+ status by Europe in response to 2013 earthquake. The status has greatly helped Pakistan's export (at zero tariff) to Europe. This is much better than a FTA where both parties have to sign reciprocal market access. GSP, GSP+ gives Pakistan a preferential and yet non-reciprocal market access. With US, Pakistan is already a beneficiary from GSP. This may be further enhanced to cover more products in the category to help Pakistan's economy.

Please note that Pakistan's primary manufacturing (textile) exports customers are US and EU.

 

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Flood relief efforts: Indonesian comes forward​

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KARACHI: The impact of the floods in Pakistan is still being felt since the floods hit in early July, and almost all of the victims have not been able to return to their homes.
Apart from the water that has not yet receded, their houses and other properties have been destroyed and are unfit for habitation.

The need for a supply of healthy food is also still very much needed. Previously, the Indonesian Consulate General in Karachi had distributed food packages to Flood Victims who were in the Shelter Camp in the Malir District, Karachi on September 5, 2022.

Amid these conditions, Ms Diah Mastuti or familiarly called Mrs. Dean Tunio, an Indonesian citizen who lives in Karachi with her family has made her house at Gulazar Hijiri Road, Ghulsan e-Maymar District, a shelter for flood victims that hit the village area, including her husband’s family in Sindh Province.

Since the beginning of August 2022, they have accommodated approximately 40 families with limited accommodation. She admitted that she could not feed the victims every day. She also had time to seek help from several foundations or flood relief posts in Karachi, but to date, she keeps waiting for their responses.

On September 14, 2022, the Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia, Dr June Kuncoro Hadiningrat, and the Indonesian Ladies Association visited Mrs Dean’s residence to directly hand over the aid collected from the community and the Indonesian diaspora in Karachi and the Indomie Company in Pakistan.

The forms of assistance provided were Food Packages, Blankets and Cash. The Consul General of the Republic of Indonesia expressed his appreciation and gratitude to Mrs. Dean and her family for the efforts that have been made to help the victims of this flood disaster amid the existing limitations. The effort irritated by Mrs. Dean was able to make a reflection on the face of Indonesia, to help fellow Muslim countries.

Sindh province is the second worst province affected by floods in Pakistan after Balochistan Province.

Currently, the Indonesian Consulate General in Karachi is coordinating with the Indonesian Embassy in Islamabad and related bureau in Jakarta to raise and deliver official Indonesian government aid to Pakistan which is planned to be delivered shortly.
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KARACHI: The impact of the floods in Pakistan is still being felt since the floods hit in early July, and almost all...

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[Dalit]

Peanuts. Let's be brutally honest. The aid thus far is laughable. The world has signalled it's unwillingness to help Pakistan. There is no other way to interpret the response. The expats have also shunned corrupt Pakistani politicians.

 

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US assures Pakistan of help to cope with flood aftermath​

Anwar Iqbal
September 17, 2022


WASHINGTON: The White House has assured Pakistan of its continued support in dealing with the consequences of this year’s unprecedented floods as UN Secretary General António Guterres urged the international community “not to lose one moment” in helping Islamabad deal with this ‘gigantic’ relief and rehabilitation task.

“My appeal to international financial institutions and my appeal to countries that have the financial capacity is not to lose one moment in providing Pakistan with the financial resources that are necessary for the gigantic tasks that are in front of us,” the UN chief said.

Such assistance, he said, was necessary “for still avoiding the worst and, at the same time, for relief, recovery and reconstruction at the scale that is unimaginable, and I have never seen anything similar, anywhere in the world”.

And a senior US health official, Dr Atul Gawande, reminded the world community that “rebuilding everything won’t happen at once. This is going to be months and years of work ahead. Dr Gawande is Assistant Administrator for Global Health at US Agency for International Aid (USAID), which is supervising US relief efforts in Pakistan.

The assurances and appeals followed a warning from relief experts and economists that this year’s floods have done an irreparable damage to Pakistan’s economy and the country would need massive support for recovering from this calamity which, many say, was caused by global warming.

In its latest report on the situation in Pakistan, The Wall Street Journal warned that “recent catastrophic floods will wipe out economic growth and cause acute food shortages in Pakistan, threatening anew to push a country already reeling from economic and political instability into default”.

At a Thursday afternoon briefing in Washington, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre pointed out that the US has already provided a total of $53.1 million to support disaster resilience and flood response in Pakistan.

The US military was airlifting relief goods to the country while USAID has deployed a disaster assistance response team in Pakistan, she added. Technical experts from CDC were also assisting with the public health impacts of the flood, she said.

At another briefing at the United Nations, Secretary General Guterres also emphasized the need to help Pakistan. “First of all, we are strongly appealing to all that can help Pakistan to mobilise all their resources,” he said. “Pakistan needs a massive inflow of financial resources.”

Published in Dawn, September 17th, 2022