The Pakistani government continues to appeal for aid to address massive flooding that has displaced over ten million people. Speaking before the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said his country faces a crisis of “biblical proportions.”

Shah Mehmood Qureshi: “We face the most devastating monsoon floods in our history, a calamity of biblical proportions. One-fifth of our nation is submerged underwater. This is a land mass larger than Italy or the United Kingdom. This calamity has struck when the whole nation is united in fighting terrorism and extremism, not withstanding its enormous cost. Yet despite the double jeopardy of terrorism and floods, we are determined not only to survive, but to prosper.”