{"id":718,"date":"2010-08-30T11:13:31","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T11:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=718"},"modified":"2010-08-30T11:13:31","modified_gmt":"2010-08-30T11:13:31","slug":"muslims-donate-nearly-1-billion-to-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/08\/30\/718\/","title":{"rendered":"Muslims donate nearly $1 billion to Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"flood-pk-p\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/flood-pk-p.jpg\" width=\"213\" height=\"181\" \/>ISLAMABAD: Muslim countries, organizations and individuals have pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the nation&#8217;s history, the head of a group of Islamic states said Sunday.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement came as floodwaters inundated a large town in Pakistan and authorities struggled to build new levees with clay and stone to prevent one of the area&#8217;s biggest cities from suffering the same fate.<br \/>Foreign countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to help Pakistan cope with the floods, which first hit the country about a month ago after extremely heavy monsoon rains. But some officials had criticized the Muslim world for not contributing enough.<br \/>Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, head of the 57-member Organization of The Islamic Conference, likely sought to counter that criticism by announcing that Muslims have pledged nearly $1 billion. The pledges came from Muslim states, NGOs, OIC institutions and telethons held in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, he said.<br \/>&#8221;They have shown that they are one of the largest contributors of assistance both in kind and cash,&#8221; said Ihsanoglu of the various donors. He spoke during a joint press conference with Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in Islamabad.<br \/>Ihsanoglu did not provide a breakdown of the pledges or say how much of the money would flow through the Pakistani government versus independent organizations.<br \/>Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani criticized donations made to foreign NGOs rather than the Pakistani government Sunday, saying much of the money would be wasted &#8221;Eighty per cent of the aid will not come to you directly,&#8221; said Gilani, referring to Pakistani citizens.<br \/>&#8221;It will come through their NGOs, and they will eat half of it,&#8221; he said during a press conference in his hometown of Multan.<br \/>The floods began in the mountainous northwest about a month ago and have moved slowly down the country toward the coast in the south, inundating vast swaths of prime agricultural land and damaging or destroying more than 1 million homes.<br \/>Floodwaters surged into the southern town of Sujawal on Sunday after breaking through a levee on the Indus River two days earlier, said Hadi Baksh, a disaster management official in southern Sindh province.<br \/>Most of the town&#8217;s 250,000 residents had already fled, but the damage to homes, clinics and schools added to the widespread devastation the floods have caused across Pakistan.<br \/>Authorities in Sujawal were trying to limit the flood damage, but the water level has already risen up to 5 feet (1.5 meters) in the center of town and 10 feet (3 meters) in the surrounding villages, said Anwarul Haq, the top official in Sujawal.<br \/>The floodwaters also threatened Thatta, a historic city of some 350,000 people who have mostly fled to higher ground. Thatta is the base of operations for local authorities trying to cope with a disaster that has overwhelmed the Pakistani government and international partners who have stepped in to help.<br \/>Authorities rushed to build makeshift levees across the road connecting Sujawal and Thatta, parts of which were already flooded, Baksh said.<br \/>&#8221;We are trying to plug the bridges at three different points to stop the water flow toward Thatta,&#8221; said Baksh. &#8221;We are trying all our best efforts.&#8221;<br \/>Thatta is located about 75 miles (125 kilometers) southeast of the major coastal city of Karachi and 15 miles northwest of Sujawal.<br \/>Many of the people who fled Sujawal and Thatta headed to Makli, a hill just south of Thatta that contains a vast Muslim graveyard. About half a million flood victims are camped out on the hill, Baksh said. Most lack any form of shelter and are desperate for food and water.<br \/>&#8221;We don&#8217;t have water to drink, not to mention food, tents or any other facility,&#8221; said Mohammed Usman, a laborer who fled Sujawal several days ago and needed water to help cope with a painful kidney stone.<br \/>The United Nations, the Pakistani army and a host of local and international relief groups have rushed aid workers, medicine, food and water to the affected regions, but are unable to reach many of the 8 million people who are in need of emergency assistance.<br \/>The US said Saturday it would deploy an additional 18 helicopters to help with the relief effort. The US military is already operating 15 helicopters and three C-130 aircraft in the country, the US Embassy said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Source: AP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Muslim countries, organizations and individuals have pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the nation&#8217;s history, the head of a group of Islamic states said Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Muslims donate nearly $1 billion to Pakistan - SunniOnline<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/08\/30\/718\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Muslims donate nearly $1 billion to Pakistan - 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