To ensure transparency in distribution of aid to flood victims, PM has set up the council.

"The US government has so far provided $76 million for flood relief activities in Pakistan," said the US ambassador.

“The international community may have been slower in its initial response but now aid effort is being stepped up.”

The ECP has decided to summon all legislators whose academic degrees were found invalid.

Saudi Arabia will donate $100 million to help flood-st­ricken Pakistanis, the kingdom’s ambassador said.

The Senate session was dominated by the violence in Karachi in the wake of the assassination of Raza Haider.