Pakistan floods: Over 1,000 killed and thousands of homes destroyed due to heavy rains in Pakistan.
Washington:
The United States is conducting a military aid mission to flood-ravaged Pakistan, the Central Command of the US armed forces said on Friday.
Spokesman Col. Joe Buccino said in an assessment in Islamabad to determine what potential support the DoD (US Department of Defense) can provide as part of United States aid to the flood crisis in CENTCOM Pakistan. sending a team.” Statement.
The spokesman said the decision was taken on Thursday following a telephonic conversation between Centcom Commander General Eric Kurilla and Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
The United States is the top arms supplier to Pakistan’s military, but relations between the two countries are often rocky.
The 2011 killing of top terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden by US forces in northern Pakistan – who had taken refuge near a military compound – caused a deep rift between Islamabad and Washington.
But since the US withdrawal from Afghanistan a year ago, the United States has sought to strengthen ties.
Monsoon rains have submerged a third of Pakistan, killing at least 1,190 people since June and causing powerful floods that have swept away vital crops and damaged or damaged more than a million homes. has been destroyed.
Officials have blamed climate change, which is increasing the frequency and strength of extreme weather events.
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