Pakistan is grappling with food shortages after deadly floods left the impoverished country's agriculture belt underwater, the prime minister tells Türkiye's President Erdogan by phone
A government statement said Sharif briefed Erdogan about the government's relief activities and sought assistance from Türkiye in overcoming the “food shortage."
Shehbaz Sharif spoke to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday to thank Türkiye for dispatching food, tents and medicine by 12 military aircraft, four trains and Turkish Red Crescent trucks. More than 660,000 people, including women and children, are living at relief camps and in makeshift homes after floods damaged their homes across the country and forced them to move to safer places.
Pakistan heavily relies on its agriculture and occasionally exports its surplus wheat to Afghanistan and other countries. Now it is in talks to import badly needed wheat and vegetables, including to people not directly affected by floods.Damage far greater than estimates
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