India offers $20m in new flood aid to Pakistan

The additional aid will boost efforts to build goodwill between the estranged neighbours.


Afp August 31, 2010

NEW DEHLI: India on Tuesday offered another 20 million dollars in flood aid to Pakistan, the country's foreign minister said, boosting efforts to build goodwill between the estranged neighbours.

SM Krishna told the parliament that a fresh instalment of 20 million dollars would boost India's total aid contributions for Pakistan to 25 million dollars.

"As a more concrete assessment of the damage inflicted by this natural disaster and the urgent needs of the people of Pakistan emerges, government has decided to increase its assistance to Pakistan from five million dollars," he said.

Earlier this month, Islamabad described the initial offer as a "very welcome initiative" by India as the two countries look to get a stalled peace process back on track.

COMMENTS (25)

mahnoor | 13 years ago | Reply we need aid for the poor helpless peopple who r dying because of starvation.be it india or any other country all outstanding issues should be forgotten and aefforts should be diverted towards helping the ones whose lives have been torn to pieces by this great catastrophe.its not a pakistani problem,its a human trajedy of unimaginable proportions. we should move positively and solve our differences with our indian brothers.after all we have co existed for centuries.we can coexist again.i believe we can.i want to see pakistn and india to come closer. and prosper together.zero sum mentality has done pakistan or india no goood.
ayesha siddiqui | 13 years ago | Reply if our politician take all their money back from their banks then we will not need any aid.our politicians are still not thinking about the bad impact of Pakistan upon the world we always keep one thing in our mind that India is our enemy since Pakistan was established. India never do anything without any purpose.
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