China to offer $14 million relief supplies to Pakistan after deadly floods — embassy
ISLAMABAD: Beijing will offer Pakistan $14 million relief supplies after widespread destruction in the South Asian country from monsoon rains and floods, the Chinese embassy announced on Friday.
Monsoon rains and India’s release of excess water flooded rivers, mainly in Pakistan’s breadbasket Punjab province, in late August, submerging more than 4,700 villages and affecting over 4.7 million people, according to Punjab Relief Commissioner Nabeel Javed.
The deluges killed more than 1,006 and forced authorities to relocate more than 2.6 million people in Punjab to safety after their homes were washed away by water torrents. The floods submerged crops over more than 2.5 million acres of land in the region.
China, which is a major investment partner of Pakistan, last month extended $2 million emergency assistance to Islamabad to deal with the deadly floods, according to the Chinese embassy in Islamabad.
