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Saudis are ahead of everyone in Helping Pakistan Flooding.

A i bit offtopic from the Saudi help btw thankyou Saudia Arabia so much as always ... but why have we stopped the donation drive here noo... we must keep it going Zaki can you respond bro?
 
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even if a nation pays a hundred dollars, their thoughts 're appreciated anyway! so to each 'n every donater, may Allah swt be with u in ur times of need as well!
 
Relief distributed among Pakistanis

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A Saudi rescue teams prepare to deploy in the flooded village of Sajawal in Sindh province,southern Pakistan, on Monday. (AP)

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A Saudi aid worker assists a displaced person in a relief camp in Pakistan. The Kingdom stepped up its aid efforts to flood-hit people of Pakistan. (AN photo)

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Pakistani officials receive some of the food relief from Makkah for flood victims. (AN photo)

MAKKAH/ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia distributed 80 truckloads of relief supplies among Pakistan’s flood victims on Monday. The relief work was carried out on the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.

An official statement said the trucks carried more than 700 tons of foodstuffs valued at SR2 million, including rice, flour, cooking oil, milk, beans and lentils, and were distributed in Punjab and Azad Kashmir. “As many as 20,000 flood-hit families will benefit from the aid,” the statement said. “Each family will get 20 kgs of flour, 5 kgs of rice, 2 kgs of lentils, 2 kgs of beans, 5 liters of cooking oil and 2 kgs of powdered milk.

The relief program ordered by King Abdullah will send more supplies to the flood-affected areas every week, the statement said, adding that it will continue for three months. “We’ll distribute a total of 1,000 truckloads of relief supplies among two million people.”

Meanwhile, the Kingdom will continue airlifting relief supplies to Pakistan’s flood victims. On Wednesday and Friday, it will send two planes carrying 100 tons of dates and 100 tons of powdered milk.

Saudi Arabia has set up three camps to accommodate people displaced by the flood in coordination with the Pakistani government.

Earlier in the day, the Kingdom sent medical equipment for the second field hospital to be established in Pakistan. Maj. Gen. Kattab Al-Otaibi, director of medical services at the armed forces, said the second field hospital would have 100 beds, 22 doctors and 93 support staff.

The hospital has departments for ENT, maternity and children, bone surgery, ophthalmology, pediatrics and dermatology, Al-Otaibi said. The facilities of the hospital were transported on eight planes from King Faisal Airbase in Tabuk to Islamabad. In a related development, Saudi Civil Defense officers rescued 573 Pakistanis using boats on Sunday who were taken to safe areas. They also distributed relief supplies among 300 affected families. The civil defense’s medical team provided health services to 150 people.

Maj. Abdullah Al-Harithy, spokesman of the Civil Defense team in Pakistan, said the team held daily meetings with their Pakistani counterparts to coordinate their activities for search and rescue operations.

Meanwhile, Saudi ambassador to Pakistan, Abdul Aziz Al-Ghadeer said in Karachi that the Kingdom would send the biggest contingent of health care officials and medical units to assist Pakistan in relief activities in flood-hit areas.

Al-Ghadeer said 107 doctors and several medical units are already in Pakistan. He said the Kingdom has established mobile hospitals in Sindh and Punjab.

Saudi Arabia has quietly overtaken the United States as the single largest aid donor in real terms so far. Riyadh’s commitment to helping the victims of Pakistan’s devastating floods has crossed $140 million.

The Saudi military and air force set up a back-to-back air bridge between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. The air bridge continues to operate.

Relief distributed among Pakistanis - Arab News

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apparently prince Al Waleed visited Pakistan and pledged to help :

Alwaleed visits flood-hit regions of Pakistan

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Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, center, and Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, 2nd right, visit a relief camp in Muzaffargarh, Pakistan, on Sunday. (AN photo)

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Prince Alwaleed, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, and his wife Princess Ameerah, present 10 tons of humanitarian aid from Alwaleed Foundation to Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani at the Islamabad International Airport. (AN photo)

By AZHAR MASOOD | ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 30, 2010 00:46 Updated: Aug 30, 2010 00:46

ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia's Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, assured Pakistan that the Kingdom will provide all possible assistance it needs for the relief and rehabilitation of thousands of flood victims.

He said the Kingdom had resolved to continue sending aid to flood-stricken Pakistan. "The Kingdom will spare no effort in supporting the Islamic Republic of Pakistan to cope with the damage from flooding," Alwaleed said.

Alwaleed who visited the flood-hit region, along with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, said, "The Kingdom stood with Pakistan during its worst natural calamity."

He was talking to reporters at Multan airport Sunday after visiting some of the worst affected areas of Punjab.

Alwaleed, who arrived in Islamabad, said two 100-bed hospitals donated by the Kingdom will be handed over to the governments of Punjab and Sindh.

Saudi medical team arrived in Islamabad on Thursday to establish two mobile field hospitals ordered by the Saudi government to assist victims of the devastating floods.

Earlier Gilani said the continuous flow of Saudi aid is commendable and helped mitigate the sufferings of flood victims.

Meanwhile, Pakistani troops and workers were on a "war footing" Sunday as they battled to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the population of 300,000 fled advancing floodwaters.

Torrential monsoon rains have triggered massive floods that have moved steadily from north to south over the past month, engulfing a fifth of the volatile country and affecting 17 million of its 167 million people.

Southern Sindh is the worst-affected province, with 19 of its 23 districts ravaged as floodwaters swell the raging Indus River to 40 times its usual volume.

One million people have been displaced over the past few days and hundreds of thousands have already fled Thatta alone ahead of the approaching ******** as soldiers work frantically to repair breached levees on the river.

"The water is still two kilometers away from Thatta where the armed forces and the local administrative workers are working on war footing to save the city," senior city official Hadi Bakhsh Kalhoro told AFP on Sunday.

"The army brought a maximum of resources to try to fill up the breach. Almost all the people have left Thatta to safer places, all shops and schools are closed," he said.

Water levels were still rising in the district, but Kalhoro said: "We are hopeful that we can save at least Thatta city in two days."

An AFP reporter said the road linking Thatta with the town of Sujawal had been flooded and closed to all vehicular traffic, while Kalhoro said an electricity grid station near Sujawal had been flooded.

Alwaleed visits flood-hit regions of Pakistan - Arab News

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PISJ old students collect donations

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Mohammad Shams-uz-Zaman, 3rd from right, member of PISOSAJ, with SBG volunteers. (AN photo)

By ARAB NEWS
Published: Aug 31, 2010 00:05 Updated: Aug 31, 2010 00:05

JEDDAH: The Old Students Association of Pakistan International School in Jeddah (PISOSAJ), along with the school administration, Saudi Binladin Group Engineers (SBG) and Pakistan Youth Alliance (PYA), has collected significant amounts of items from the community since Aug. 18.

The first shipment was sent on Aug. 29 to Edhi Center in Pakistan which is currently based in all flood-affected areas.

The alumni’s president, Monawar Najmi, thanked the community but has also requested it to donate more dates, salt, powdered milk packs (both for infants and adults), digestive biscuits, peanut butter and mineral water.

Najmi, while thanking the tireless efforts of PISOSAJ members along with SBG and PYA volunteers, said that the community must ensure that all items donated are properly packed so that the volunteers work facilitated.

PISJ old students collect donations - Arab News

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2nd Saudi field hospital leaves for Pakistan (SPA) 20/9/1431H

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thank you saudi peopela and kingdom for helping your brothers. May Allah bless you guys amin
 
Saudi Arabia tops in flood aid to Pakistan

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Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif holds talks with OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu in Jeddah on Tuesday night. (SPA)

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Prince Alwaleed, chairman of Kingdom Holding Company, and his wife Princess Ameerah, present 10 tons of humanitarian aid from Alwaleed Foundation to Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani at the Islamabad International Airport. (AN photo)


SR810,000 raised in Pak flood aid
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RUSHING IN RELIEF: The first of the eight planes gets ready to leave the Prince Sultan Airbase in Al-Kharj on Friday carrying doctors and medical equipments for the two Saudi field hospitals that is currently being established in flood-ravaged districts in Pakistan. The first hospital will have 100 beds with 27 doctors in varying specializations and 93 nurses and technicians. (SPA)

1,000 trucks to distribute Saudi flood relief
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Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Aziz Alghadeer along with Saudi military officers receives medical equipment for the Saudi field hospital after it was airlifted to Islamabad on Saturday. (SPA)

Relief distributed among Pakistanis

MAKKAH/ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia distributed 80 truckloads of relief supplies among Pakistan’s flood victims on Monday. The relief work was carried out on the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah.

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King orders field hospitals for flood-hit Pakistan
RIYADH: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has ordered the donation of two field hospitals to Pakistan to provide medical services for flood victims in the country.

Kingdom to ‘spare no effort’ in aid to Pakistan
RIYADH/ISLAMABAD: Saudi Arabia’s Council of Ministers resolved to continue sending aid to flood-stricken Pakistan, the official SPA news agency said Tuesday.

Saudi medical team arrives in Pakistan
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Caption: Members of the Saudi medical team pose for a group photo after arriving in Islamabad on Wednesday. (SPA)
 
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SR200,000 raised for Pak flood victims
Source:SR200,000 raised for Pak flood victims - Arab News

JEDDAH: The Pakistani community in Jeddah has once again shown its vibrancy and unity by coming together to raise funds for millions of flood-battered compatriots back home.

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The historic Uhud Square in Madinah, where the Battle of Uhud between Muslims and the pagans of Makkah took place in AD 625. (AN photo by Yousuf Muhammad)
 
ASSALAM ALAIKUM,
masha Allah , thanks our saudi brothers 4 all the thelp.
we 4got when u helped us when acquiring f16
we 4got ur stand after india's nuclear blast when saudi cabinet announced that saudies will be behind watever action WE take ( blast or not blast their nukes)
we 4got again ur help during earthquake and started BASHING the rich arabs ( indirectly u ppl)
i wanna tell my brothers most of the arabs r POOR ppl only 3 or 4 countries r rich and these countries always helped us when we ppl say where r our arab brothers and the poor do wat we do, they pray 4 us
besides these arabs have brought us some thing that we will never be able to counter , which is islam
thanks to all who helped us muslims or non muslims.

TARIQ
 
Thank you KSA and the rest arab friends.

Friend in need is friend indeed.

R u watching this thread DW. :cheers:
 
ASSALAM ALAIKUM,
masha Allah , thanks our saudi brothers 4 all the thelp.
we 4got when u helped us when acquiring f16
we 4got ur stand after india's nuclear blast when saudi cabinet announced that saudies will be behind watever action WE take ( blast or not blast their nukes)
we 4got again ur help during earthquake and started BASHING the rich arabs ( indirectly u ppl)
i wanna tell my brothers most of the arabs r POOR ppl only 3 or 4 countries r rich and these countries always helped us when we ppl say where r our arab brothers and the poor do wat we do, they pray 4 us
besides these arabs have brought us some thing that we will never be able to counter , which is islam
thanks to all who helped us muslims or non muslims.

TARIQ

We are not fighting with them every one is entitled to their dispute of views. Critisizm should be accorded when there are formal dents in releations like summoning up each other ambassidors or verbal flame war. Even the Arabis are discontent over their funding of tribal Pakistani extremists in the past. King Abdullah has vowed to uproot this menance and funded a lot of development projects in KP after earthquake and also donated the first overseas campus of King Abdullah university.

Distinction to be made when discussing past, present and future. We have every right to bash wrong decisions because everyone makes mistakes. In any event we paid the price for what Arabis thought was right thing to do. Mutual co operation will solve problems.
 
Islamabad, Ramadan 25, 1431/Sept 4, 2010, SPA -- The Saudi rescue team has rescued more than 641 persons in Pakistan.
Spokesman for the civil defense Major Abdullah al-Harethi said rescue operations are still going on in the places affected by floods in the country.
--SPA
 
SR87m Saudi aid pledged for the displaced in Pakistan
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS


Published: Oct 11, 2010 00:19 Updated: Oct 11, 2010 00:19

RIYADH: The Kingdom signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Islamabad on Saturday to provide a grant of more than SR87 million ($23.3 million) for humanitarian activities in Pakistan.


The agreement was signed between the Saudi Fund for Development (SFD) and UNICEF. “This grant by the government of Saudi Arabia is for urgent support to maternal and child health care, nutrition services for children and pregnant women, and providing safe drinking water and adequate sanitation facilities in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps,” said Mohamed Al-Arifi, head of the SFD delegation.

“The Saudi government has always shown its desire to provide financial assistance to Pakistan on humanitarian grounds. This relief assistance comes under the Kingdom’s pledge of $100 million to IDPs,” he added.

In 2009, huge numbers of people were displaced as a result of militancy in Pakistan’s Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa. Nearly three million people were displaced of which many still reside in camps and with host communities. The SFD grant will go toward UNICEF’s ongoing humanitarian assistance for people affected in Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

“This generous donation by SFD will go a long way in helping UNICEF to continue to provide improved and expanded services in the areas of health, education, drinking water, sanitation and hygiene to women and children affected by militancy in north-western Pakistan,” said Daniel Toole, regional director for South Asia and special representative for UNICEF in Pakistan.

“Successive emergencies in Pakistan pose a greater challenge for humanitarian organizations and additional funds are needed for a sustained response. As we actively serve populations affected by the recent floods, we must not forget those who were already displaced and distressed due to the earlier emergency and may have taken a double blow,” he added.

UNICEF will use the Saudi funds for procuring school supplies, preventive and curative health services, provision of safe drinking water, sanitation facilities and restoration of damaged public sector schools and health centers.


© 2010 Arab News
 
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