KARACHI, PAKISTAN (AP) – United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres yesterday toured Pakistan’s flood-ravaged Sindh and Baluchistan provinces a day after saying the world is obligated to provide “massive” amounts of relief to the impoverished country.
Guterres was on the second day of a two-day visit to Pakistan, which has been devastated by months of heavy monsoon rains and flooding.
At least 1,396 people have been killed, 12,728 injured and millions left homeless.
Guterres toured flood-affected areas of the district of Sukkur in Sindh province and Osta Mohammad in southwest Baluchistan province – some of the worst affected areas of the country.
“Pakistan needs today massive financial support to overcome this crisis,” he said.
This is not the matter of generosity this is the matter of justice.”
Miles of cotton and sugarcane crops, banana orchards and vegetable fields in the two provinces were submerged in floodwaters.
