Pakistan will need more than $10 billion to repair the damage they have caused. heavy rains of the monsoon season and rebuild destroyed infrastructure, Ahsan Iqbal, the country’s planning and development minister, told AFP today.
“Huge damage was done to the infrastructure, mainly in the telecommunications, agriculture, life support sectors, as well as the road network,” Iqbal explained.
A third of Pakistan’s territory is under water after the strongest monsoon rains in the last three decades.
The flooding has claimed the lives of at least 1,136 people, swept away countless homes and destroyed vital farmland.
More than 33 million people, one in seven people in Pakistan, were affected by the floods and nearly a million homes were either destroyed or severely damaged.
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