On tour, UN chief urges ‘massive’ financial support for flood-hit Pakistan
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has toured Pakistan's flood-hit areas, a day after he called on the international community to provide “massive” amounts of relief to the impoverished country.
On Saturday, Guterres rounded off the two-day visit to Pakistan, which has been devastated by months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding.
Nearly 1,400 people have been killed, well over 12,700 injured and millions left homeless. The waters also destroyed road and communications infrastructure.
The UN chief visited some of the worst affected areas in Sindh and Baluchistan provinces.
"It is difficult not to feel deeply moved to hear such detailed descriptions of tragedy,” Guterres said.
“Pakistan needs today massive financial support to overcome this crisis,” he said. “This is not a matter of generosity, this is a matter of justice.”
Record monsoon rains and glacier melt in the country’s northern mountains have triggered floods that have swept away houses, roads, railway tracks, bridges, livestock and crops. Huge areas are inundated, and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced from their homes.
The government says the lives of nearly 33 million people have been disrupted. Pakistan estimates the damage at $30 billion.
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