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Flood causes colossal damage

UN, foreign govts pledge over $ 1.6 m to Pakistan
ISLAMABAD. Sept 20 Foreign governments and the United Nations htave pledged more than 1.6 million US dol lara In aid following floods that have swept through Pakistan. a Foreign Ministry spokesman said Saturday, reports AFT
Japan, which has promised 800,000 dollars. Is the largest contributor while Saudi Arabia's King Fahd has ordered the Immediate despatch of food, medicines, blankets and tents on Saudi Air Force planes, he said.
The European Community has offered 360,000 dollars, the United Kingdom 200.000 dollars and France 100,000 dollars. The United Nations Development Programme and the UN disaster relief organ I zation have together donated 100.000 dollars.
China and South Korea have pledged 30.000 dollars and 20.000 dollars respectively and New Zealand had made a contribution of around 25.000 dollars.
The spokesman said France had also expressed its readiness to send at short notice an aircraft with relief materials and the Central Asian republic of Uzbekistan was sending a helicopter to assist the relief operations
The floods, which are not yet over after eleven days of widespread devastation and human losses, have already caused economic damages es-tlmated at hundreds of Bill lions of dollars
The Foreign Ministry has said pubik sector looses In the flrat five days alone after the disaster struck September 8 run into 400 million dollars and that the private sector
losses arc expected to be even higher
Ifakistan has not launched a formal appeal for international assistance despite the devasta lion and the deaths of more than 2.000 people
In a statement, the official spokesman said Islamabad deeply" appreciated the relief contributions by foreign gov ernments.
Meanwhile, the Sukkur bar rage in Sindh province was under pressure Saturday as the flood waters of the Indus river, joined by its four tributaries, roared toward the Arabian Sea.
The situation in Punjab, which earlier bore the brunt of the flood waters, was said to be improving.
Engineers saved the huge Panjnad barrage in southern Punjab from being washed away after breaches were made Friday in protective embank ments to reduce the combined thrust of the J he him. Chenab. Ravi and Sutlej river*
Sindh government officials in Karachi said the Sukkur barrage was expected to face a peak discharge of 1 1 million cubic feet per second late Saturday night
They said that the fkxxl wa ters had affected only the marshy land adjacent to the river, from where 350,000 people had already been evacu ated along with a million head of cattle.
President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif are expected to tour the affected areas of Guddu and Sukkur In Sindh today, the official said.
Sharif, who has been travel ling from place to place to meet flood victim*, said at Jhelum in fhinjab Saturday that the government was formulating a comprehensive rehabfli tation plan