BRUSSELS (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday said Pakistan's wealthy needed to dig into their own pockets to match global efforts to help it recover from 9.7 billion dollars of flood damages.
"It's absolutely unacceptable for those with means in Pakistan not to be doing their fair share to help their own people while taxpayers in Europe, the United States and other contributing countries are all chipping in," Clinton said.
The World Bank and Asian Development Bank (ADN) said they estimated damages from the floods that began in July at 9.7 billion dollars, almost double the amount caused by Pakistan's 2005 earthquake.
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