Holbrooke says US helping Pakistan on humanitarian grounds
Pakistan
Holbrooke says US helping Pakistan on humanitarian grounds
The US envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke denied any link between his efforts for Pakistan and the US fight to stamp out Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists in northwestern tribal regions near the border with Afghanistan. We are not helping in the flood zones as part of the war against the Taliban. We are doing it because it's the right thing to do for 20 million people, Holbrooke said. It's not strategic, it's not political, it's humanitarian. Holbrooke who was visiting Europe urged the latter to help boost aid to the victims of devastating floods there that have left millions homeless. The situation in Pakistan is extraordinary. An area larger than Italy was put under water, over 20 million people were affected, Richard Holbrooke told reporters in Paris. The amount of money to reconstruct what has been destroyed in Pakistan is going to be in the tens of billions of dollars, he said. People are desperate to go back to their land and homes but there are no homes to go back to.
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