Pakistan prime minister says he’s ‘deeply moved’ after Pakistani businessman living in US makes donation at Turkish embassy
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Word of the Pakistani businessman’s kindness has provided a rare instance of uplifting news amid the mounting death and damage toll associated with the calamity.Saturday that he was “deeply moved by the example” set by an anonymous compatriot who walked into the Turkish embassy in the US capital of Washington DC and made the multimillion-dollar donation to benefit victims of the quake.
The donation also came in after the United Nations world food program made appeals for $77m to provide rations to at least 590,000 people displaced in Turkey and 284,000 in Syria. According to the program, about 45,000 of those people were refugees, and another 545,000 were displaced internally. That particular region is held by rebels rather than the government, so it has received little aid when compared to other affected areas, even with“We have so far failed the people in north-west Syria,” UN aid chief Martin Griffiths tweeted Saturday from that country’s border with Turkey.
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