[net-gold] DISASTERS: FLOODS : COUNTRIES: PAKISTAN: Who Cares About Pakistan?
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DISASTERS: FLOODS :
COUNTRIES: PAKISTAN:
Who Cares About Pakistan?
Who Cares About Pakistan?
By Jude Sheerin
BBC News
21 August 2010 Last updated at 09:13 ET
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11035270>
Donations have been sluggish to the Pakistan floods appeals, as they were
back in 2005 when the part of Kashmir the country administers was torn
apart by an earthquake. The BBC News website asked some experts to comment
on possible reasons why.
Topics Covered in This Article
Donor fatigue
Corruption
Terrorism
Timing
'Wrong' disaster
BBC website readers have been sending in their views.
Here are some of their comments.
Quoting the article:
Terrorism
Dr Marie Lall says: "British Prime Minister David Cameron's comments in
India [when he said Islamabad promoted the export of terror] did not
help."
Dr Elizabeth Ferris says: "People are less likely to donate to any country
seen as a haven for terrorism. And more generally, the fact that so much
Western news coverage in recent years about Pakistan has been negative,
stressing its links with the conflict in Afghanistan. I think this is the
major reason for the slow public response - the image of Pakistan in our
media. There may also be a feeling, particularly in the US, that Islamic
governments and charities should be stepping up to the plate to donate."
Timing
Rebecca Wynn says: "This disaster has come at a bad time, following the
financial crisis and the Haiti earthquake. Many donors made huge
commitments to Haiti, so may find it hard to fund another major disaster,
particularly in the same year."
Dr Marie Lall says: "Timing may be a factor, but I think it's more to do
with not realising the scale of the disaster, and the attitude by the
British government; the UK should be leading the aid effort, given the
Pakistani diaspora here and the fact that we need Pakistan for the war in
Afghanistan."
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US, others pledge more funds to UN Pakistan appeal
By Louis Charbonneau and Patrick Worsnip
Thu Aug 19, 2010 6:23pm EDT
Reuters
<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1997179>
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 19 (Reuters) - The United States led a stream of new
aid pledges for flood-stricken Pakistan on Thursday, promising a further
$60 million to rectify a humanitarian response that has been criticized as
too slow.
"With a new pledge that I am making today of $60 million, the United
States will be contributing more than $150 million toward emergency flood
relief," U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the U.N. General
Assembly.
About $92 million of that total is in direct support of the U.N. relief
plan, she added during a debate aimed at pressing for more contributions
to the plan.
More than 4 million Pakistanis have been made homeless by nearly three
weeks of floods, the United Nations has said, making the critical task of
securing greater amounts of aid more urgent. Twice that number are in
urgent need of humanitarian assistance.
Clinton urged other U.N. member nations to ensure that Pakistan got all
the aid it needs.
The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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