Red Cross chief seeks world aid for Pak calamity

	LONDON: A senior Red Cross official has said rebuilding Pakistan after the worst floods in decades could take five years. 'Crops are gone. Infrastructure is gone, including canals. Community canals. Irrigation canals. To bring that back is going to take a long time. It could end up being five years,' said Bekele Geleta, Secretary-General of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). The floods have affected 20 million people, killed up to 1,600 and
Flood causes 50-feet breach near Dadu-Moro bridge
JAKOBABAD: The breach caused by massive water pressure on a road near Dadu-Moro bridge, widened to 50 feet, causing a complete disruption of grounds links among several districts, Geo News reported Monday. It should be mentioned here that it has been decided to breach Bypass in a bid to spare the city of Jakobabad the inundation. The 30-foot breach cut off the ground links connecting various districts of Noshehro Feroz, Dadu, Larkana and Shaheed Benazirabad. According to Irr
Govt mulls over disaster duty on imported goods
ISLAMABAD: The government, in a bid to garner funds for the flood-affected people, is mulling over imposing a one-time “flood disaster import duty” on the import of majority of the products, mainly nonessential items. According to the proposal under consideration by the economic managers of the country, food items and import of oil and POL products will remain exempted from the flood disaster import duty, the sources said. Rs 25 billion to 50 billion in revenue is estimated w