Afghanistan gives $1 million to Pakistan flood victims

Impoverished Afghanistan on Tuesday donated one million dollars to help the victims of unprecedented floods in Pakistan, an official said. Finance minister Hazrat Omar Zakhailwal handed a cheque to Pakistani ambassador Mohammad Sadiq at the end of a press conference in Kabul. Even though this aid amount is far less than what is really needed by the flood victims...our government wants to express its solidarity with our brothers and sisters hit by floods, the minister said. Torrential monsoon rain triggered catastrophic floods which have affected a fifth of the country, wiping out villages, rich farmland, infrastructure and killing an estimated 1,600 people in the nation's worst ever natural disaster.

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