A 17-member Turkiye delegation led by Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu and Environment Minister Murat Kurum arrived in Islamabad to visit flood-affected areas of Pakistan on Friday.
According to details, Planning Minister Asad Umar, Interior Minister Rana
Sanaullah and Climate Change Minister Sherry Rehman received the delegation
at the Islamabad airport.
Apart from visiting flood-affected areas of Pakistan, the Turkiye delegation
will also call on high-ups of the federal government.
Speaking to the media on the occasion, Ahsan Iqbal expressed his gratitude
to the leadership and people of Turkiye for extending support to Pakistan in
the hour of trial.
“We will never forget Turkiye’s spirit of sharing the pain of Pakistani
people,” the Planning minister said, noting that the country was constantly
sending relief goods to Pakistan via aircraft and rail.
The visiting Interior Minister informed the Minister for Planning that
prayers will be offered for Pakistan today after Friday prayers in ninety
thousand mosques of Turkiye.
More than 1,200 people have died, including 380 children, in what the United
Nations has called an ‘unprecedented climate catastrophe’.
According to the statement issued by the Climate Change Ministry, 70% of the
country has suffered from floods in the last 2 months. The southern parts of
the country are underwater right now, they added.
The statement added that health concerns are rising amid devastating floods
in the county and the river Indus is facing severe floods right now, he
added. Over 1200 people have been reported dead amid floods in the country,
while over 3000 have been injured in the city, he added.
