Manmohan calls up Gilani, offers more help

[trident2010]

Manmohan calls up Gilani, offers more help

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani and offered more assistance in handling the devastation caused by the floods even though Pakistan was yet to respond to India’s last week’s aid offer of USD five million.

Dr. Singh said in such times of natural disasters, all of South Asia should rise to the occasion and extend every possible help to the people of Pakistan affected by the tragedy.

Nearly one-fifth of Pakistan is now reported to be badly hit by the devastating flood, the worst for the country in 80 years. Over 1,700 people have died and the United Nations says more than 6,50,000 people are without basic shelter while six million desperately need emergency aid.

Dr. Singh called Mr. Gilani “to express his sense of sorrow and to condole the deaths resulting from the huge floods that have devastated parts of Pakistan. The Government of India had already made an offer of assistance and was ready to do more to assist in the relief effort.”

Last week, Minister of External Affairs S. M. Krishna had called on his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi and offered USD 5 million in aid for flood relief work.

With Pakistan dilly-dallying on taking USD five million in aid for flood relief work from India, the U.S. has said politics should have no role in disaster response and it “expects” Islamabad to accept the assistance.

“In terms of responding to a disaster, politics should play no role. You have a country (India) that’s willing to help (Pakistan), and... we expect that Pakistan will accept,” U.S. State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley said in Washington.


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[Indiarox]

Manmohan calls up Gilani, offers more help

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani and offered more assistance in handling the devastation caused by the floods even though Pakistan was yet to respond to India’s last week’s aid offer of USD five million.

Dr. Singh said in such times of natural disasters, all of South Asia should rise to the occasion and extend every possible help to the people of Pakistan affected by the tragedy.

Nearly one-fifth of Pakistan is now reported to be badly hit by the devastating flood, the worst for the country in 80 years. Over 1,700 people have died and the United Nations says more than 6,50,000 people are without basic shelter while six million desperately need emergency aid.

Dr. Singh called Mr. Gilani “to express his sense of sorrow and to condole the deaths resulting from the huge floods that have devastated parts of Pakistan. The Government of India had already made an offer of assistance and was ready to do more to assist in the relief effort.”

Last week, Minister of External Affairs S. M. Krishna had called on his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi and offered USD 5 million in aid for flood relief work.

With Pakistan dilly-dallying on taking USD five million in aid for flood relief work from India, the U.S. has said politics should have no role in disaster response and it “expects” Islamabad to accept the assistance.

“In terms of responding to a disaster, politics should play no role. You have a country (India) that’s willing to help (Pakistan), and... we expect that Pakistan will accept,” U.S. State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley said in Washington.


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Good one Dr.Singh

 

[Tshering22]

Manmohan calls up Gilani, offers more help

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani and offered more assistance in handling the devastation caused by the floods even though Pakistan was yet to respond to India’s last week’s aid offer of USD five million.

Dr. Singh said in such times of natural disasters, all of South Asia should rise to the occasion and extend every possible help to the people of Pakistan affected by the tragedy.

Nearly one-fifth of Pakistan is now reported to be badly hit by the devastating flood, the worst for the country in 80 years. Over 1,700 people have died and the United Nations says more than 6,50,000 people are without basic shelter while six million desperately need emergency aid.

Dr. Singh called Mr. Gilani “to express his sense of sorrow and to condole the deaths resulting from the huge floods that have devastated parts of Pakistan. The Government of India had already made an offer of assistance and was ready to do more to assist in the relief effort.”

Last week, Minister of External Affairs S. M. Krishna had called on his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mahmood Qureshi and offered USD 5 million in aid for flood relief work.

With Pakistan dilly-dallying on taking USD five million in aid for flood relief work from India, the U.S. has said politics should have no role in disaster response and it “expects” Islamabad to accept the assistance.

“In terms of responding to a disaster, politics should play no role. You have a country (India) that’s willing to help (Pakistan), and... we expect that Pakistan will accept,” U.S. State Department spokesman P. J. Crowley said in Washington.


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Pathetic display of weakness. I never knew Dr. Singh could go to such extent to brag about his own party in front of the world and gain reputation. While the country's backward areas continue to suffer, this man and his bunch of inept officers continue offering and pouring money on frivolous matters that have no concern with the development, security and confidence development of India. .

 

[TOPGUN]

Mr singh you offer for help is more then appreciated thanks.

 

[gubbi]

Pathetic display of weakness. I never knew Dr. Singh could go to such extent to brag about his own party in front of the world and gain reputation. While the country's backward areas continue to suffer, this man and his bunch of inept officers continue offering and pouring money on frivolous matters that have no concern with the development, security and confidence development of India. .

What is wrong in offering help to manage a natural disaster? Its not like India is offering to help alleviate Pakistan's social problems at the cost of our own.

Humanitarian relief has no place for politics. Please.

 

[subject17]

I hope we send relief materials asap, timely help is what pakistan needs now.

 

[Hutchroy]

What is wrong in offering help to manage a natural disaster? Its not like India is offering to help alleviate Pakistan's social problems at the cost of our own.

Humanitarian relief has no place for politics. Please.

1. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mr. Basit commented that India had not offered any Help. Similarly by other Pakistani Leaders.

2. India offers USD 5 Million.

3. Pakistan Rejects.

4. MMS calls Gillani offering "More" including 400 Indian Doctors.

5. Gillani (possibly under Pakistan's Army Establishment's Instructions) Rejects.

Do you want MMS and the Government of India to go down on their knees and beg the Pakistani Leadership to help India as also do India a favour by Granting Pakistan's acceptance of India's Aid?

Pathetic!

 

[gubbi]

1. Pakistan's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Mr. Basit commented that India had not offered any Help. Similarly by other Pakistani Leaders.

2. India offers USD 5 Million.

3. Pakistan Rejects.

4. MMS calls Gillani offering "More" including 400 Indian Doctors.

5. Gillani (possibly under Pakistan's Army Establishment's Instructions) Rejects.

Do you want MMS and the Government of India to go down on their knees and beg the Pakistani Leadership to help India as also do India a favour by Granting Pakistan's acceptance of India's Aid?

Pathetic!

Pakistan rejected Indian help? Source?

 

[Hutchroy]

Pakistan rejected Indian help? Source?

PM calls Gilani to offer more aid, Pak says no thanks

New Delhi : Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday called his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani and offered more assistance in handling the devastation caused by the floods even though that country rejected the India's aid offer of $5 million.

Singh said in such times of natural disasters, all of South Asia should rise to the occasion and extend every possible help to the people of Pakistan affected by the tragedy. In response, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said although Pakistan appreciates India's offer, it cannot accept it in the current circumstances.

Is that sufficient gubbi Sir?

 

[Chandler]

Pakistan rejected Indian help? Source?

Well here you go Link for the Article.

 

[gubbi]

PM calls Gilani to offer more aid, Pak says no thanks

Is that sufficient gubbi Sir?

That sucks. Guess politics is more important than humanitarian help. May God(s) have mercy!

Condolences to the flood affected victims, apparently your establishment and leaders have more pressing priorities than relief work.

 

[Hutchroy]

For gubbi Sir,

Pakistan rejects India's aid offer

Pakistan on Thursday (August 19) formally rejected Indian aid for those effected by the recent floods. Declining India's offer for aid to the flood effected victims, Pakistan's Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said, "We appreciate India's gesture, but can't take aid now."

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh earlier this afternoon made a call to his Pakistani counterpart, Yousuf Raza Gilani and condoled the deaths caused by floods in Pakistan. In his conversation with Gilani, the Prime Minister also offered India's aid to those people effected by the floods in Pakistan.

The Obama administration earlier urged Pakistan to accept India's aid offer even as hardline elements in the flood-ravaged country have begun a vicious campaign to blame India, the United States, and Afghanistan for the calamity, a charge Washington has simply dismissed.

Amid mounting international attention and concern for Pakistan's future in the face of the tragedy, US officials on Wednesday called on Islamabad to abjure politics and accept India's help, including an initial $ 5 million offer it has sat on saying it is under consideration, even as it is begging for international aid.

"I think the priority is to use offers of assistance to help the Pakistani people, so we would encourage Government of Pakistan to accept that (Indian) offer," Frank Ruggiero, Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan said on Wednesday. Separately, state department spokesman P J Crowley said, "In terms of responding to a disaster, politics should play no role. You have a country (India) that's willing to help (Pakistan), and...we expect that Pakistan will accept."

Their remarks came amid a rash of reports in the Pakistani media blaming India, principally, for the massive floods, purportedly because New Delhi had deliberately diverted waters from dams in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, and from the ones it "controlled in Afghanistan”. Some reports also charged that US was manipulating weather patterns over Pakistan. US officials dismissed the idea with incredulity.

"So it was the United States and India that conspired to have the monsoons come to Pakistan? I don't find that credible," Crowley said in response to a question about such reports in sections of the Pakistani media considered close to hard-line elements in its intelligence agencies and jihadists.

The inflammatory reports in a country that's been dubbed "Paranoidistan" surfaced even as Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, in an interview to ABC, endorsed a purported ISI report last week that home-grown extremism and not India constituted a primary security threat to the country.

The new line, which if genuine would reverse 63 years of regarding India as the primary threat, is ostensibly aimed at extracting more aid from the US and the international community, which have repeatedly advised Islamabad to give up its India fixation, and have been reluctant to open their purse strings because of, among other things, Pakistan's hardline policies towards India.

Pakistan's recalibration, amid unabated floods and fears of extremists getting ahead of the government in providing relief, is already starting to show results. The US has increased its aid to nearly $100 million, the World Bank has sanctioned a loan of $ 900 million, and various western and Gulf/Arab countries have also bumped up their initial modest contribution to help out Pakistan from being completely washed up.

On Thursday (Friday IST), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the move to galvanize world attention and ramped up aid by delivering remarks at a plenary meeting of the UN General Assembly on the humanitarian situation resulting from the floods in Pakistan. She is expected to announce a further increase in US commitment.

 

[indushek]

Enough is enough if our government has any sense of self respect they will keep their mouthshut atleast now.

 

[Hutchroy]

That sucks. Guess politics is more important than humanitarian help. May God(s) have mercy!

Condolences to the flood affected victims, apparently your establishment and leaders have more pressing priorities than relief work.

I hope and pray to God that the Pakistani Government takes pity on the Poor Flood Affected Millions of Pakistanis and accept the Indian Aid Offer with good grace.

 

[Hulk]

Let's leave it here, we offered they rejected it's their choice. We also have 100 things to worry about. Wish them best of luck.