The Pakistan it will be needed more than $10 billion in damages caused by the heavy rains of the era of monsoons and to rebuild the infrastructure that was destroyed, the country’s Planning and Development Minister Ahsan Iqbal said today.
“Huge damage was caused to infrastructure, mainly in the telecommunications, agriculture, livelihoods sectors, but also in the road network,” explained Iqbal, speaking to AFP.
A third of Pakistan, as reported by APE-MPE, is under water after worst monsoon season rainfall for three decades.
From the floods at least 1,136 people have lost their livescountless homes have been washed away and vital farmlands have been destroyed.
More than 33 million people, one in seven Pakistanis, have been affected by the floods and nearly a million homes have either been destroyed or suffer serious damage.
Source: News Beast
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