Geo436.com blog: UN chief pledges to speed up flood aid

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Geo436 ISLAMABAD: UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Sunday pledged to speed up international aid for as many as 20 million people hit by floods, warning the ‘heart-wrenching’ disaster was far from over. The United Nations has appealed for 460 million dollars to deal with the immediate aftermath of the floods, but has warned that billions will be needed in the long term as villages, businesses, crops and infrastructure have been wiped out. Pakistan’s weak civilian government has appealed to the international community to help it deal with the challenges of a crisis compared by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to the sub-continent’s 1947 partition