Pakistan Receives $10 Billion Commitment for Devastating Floods
- Fundraising exceeded $8 billion that prime minister sought
- Floods killed more than 1,700 people and cut growth by half
Floods after heavy monsoon rains at Sohbatpur in Jaffarabad, 2022.
Photographer: Fida Hussain/AFP/Getty Images
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Pakistan has received commitments for more than $10 billion from the global community that it requested at a conference in Geneva to help the country rebuild houses and farms along with rehabilitating people impacted by floods.
That exceeded the $8 billion over three years that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had sought.