Donors offer over $9B for Pakistan after devastating floods

By JAMEY KEATEN and MUNIR AHMED
Associated Press

GENEVA (AP) — Dozens of countries and international institutions pledged more than $9 billion to help Pakistan recover and rebuild from this summer’s devastating floods, with the sum set to balloon further at a U.N.-backed conference to help the country through what the U.N. chief called “a climate disaster of monumental scale.” The flooding killed more than 1,700 people, destroyed more than 2 million homes, and covered as much as one-third of the country at one point, causing damage totaling more than $30 billion, officials say. Large swaths of the country remain under water, with millions living near contaminated or stagnant waters, the U.N. says.