The floods have killed at least 1,136 people, swept away countless homes and destroyed vital farmland.
The Pakistan will need more than 10 billion dollars to repair the damage caused by the heavy rains of the monsoon season and to rebuild the infrastructure that was destroyed, the Minister of Planning and Development of the country said today, Ahsan Iqbal speaking to AFP.
“Enormous damage was caused to the infrastructure, mainly in the telecommunications, agriculture, livelihoods sectors, but also in the road network”Iqbal explained.
The a third of Pakistan is under water after the worst monsoon rains in three decades.
The floods have killed at least 1,136 people, swept away countless homes and destroyed vital farmland.
More than 33 million people, one in seven Pakistanis, have been affected by the floods and nearly a million homes have been either destroyed or severely damaged.
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