People retrieve bamboos from a damaged house following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Dera Allah Yar, district Jafferabad, Balochistan. So far, (a) very early, preliminary estimate is that it is big, it is higher than $10 billion," Ahsan Iqbal told Reuters in an interview. There is damage to almost nearly one million houses," Iqbal said at his office. Read more: Flooded highways hamper relief efforts in BalochistanPakistan has already appealed for international help and some countries have already sent in supplies and rescue teams. The nation's foreign minister told Reuters on Sunday he hoped financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund would provide financial aid, taking the economic cost of the floods into account.

Source: The Nation August 30, 2022 06:10 UTC