KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 1,000 people, including 300 children, have been killed as a result of ongoing rains and flooding in Pakistan, says the Foreign Office in Islamabad.
Foreign Office spokesman Asim Iftikhar told a weekly media briefing: “A UN flash appeal is going to be launched on Tuesday, 30 August, simultaneously from Geneva and Islamabad.”
He called the UN appeal very significant, and it would trigger the international community’s response as well as bilateral assistance from other countries.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, in his interaction with a group of envoys and diplomats on Friday, said his . . .
