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Slow start for philanthropic response to Pakistan floods

1 December 2010
Alliance magazine

Aid agencies have been bemoaning what a UK government official described as a ‘woefully inadequate’ international response to this summer’s floods in Pakistan, and have warned of a worse humanitarian disaster to come. Secretary of state for development Andrew Mitchell, who made the remark, subsequently promised that the UK would commit a further £70 million in aid to Pakistan.

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