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September 22, 2010

Pakistani FM: Flooding Poses Crisis of "Biblical Proportions"
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The Pakistani government continues to appeal for aid to address massive
flooding that has displaced over ten million people. Speaking before the
Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Pakistani Foreign Minister
Shah Mehmood Qureshi said his country faces a crisis of "biblical
proportions."

Shah Mehmood Qureshi: "We face the most devastating monsoon floods in
our history, a calamity of biblical proportions. One-fifth of our nation
is submerged underwater. This is a land mass larger than Italy or the
United Kingdom. This calamity has struck when the whole nation is united
in fighting terrorism and extremism, not withstanding its enormous cost.
Yet despite the double jeopardy of terrorism and floods, we are
determined not only to survive, but to prosper."



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