Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Finance Minister, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar, on Monday appreciated the World Bank for providing financial and technical support to cope with the challenge posed by the floods in Pakistan.
According to a Finance Ministry tweet, the minister said this during a meeting with World Bank Vice President Martin Raiser on the sidelines of the International Conference in Geneva on ‘Climate Resilient Pakistan’.
Dar thanks World Bank, IsDB, USAID for support
Meanwhile, in a tweet, Finance Minister Dar thanked Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) President Muhammad Al- Jasser for supporting Pakistan in its post-flood rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts.
US aid agency, United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Deputy Administrator Ms. Isobel Coleman also called on the finance minister and discussed modalities of international support for reconstruction and rehabilitation of flood-hit people and areas of the country.
