The government of Alberta will donate $500,000 towards relief efforts in Pakistan, and Manitoba doubled its pledge for flood aid to $200,000 on Monday.
"I have been shocked to see the devastation in Pakistan," Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach said Monday in a news release announcing the contribution to Canadian Red Cross relief efforts.
The federal government has pledged $33-million and Ontario has pledged $1-million.
The Saskatchewan government hasn't announced a contribution, but officials were meeting to discuss the matter Monday afternoon.
Manitoba had previously pledged $100,000 through the Manitoba Council for International Co-operation and announced another $100,000 Monday.
The floods have spread throughout Pakistan after beginning in the country's northwest more than two weeks ago. As many as 20 million people and 160,000 square kilometres of land may have been affected, the Pakistani government estimates.
The United Nations is hoping for $460 million US in immediate donations.
Pakistan floods spur Alta., Man. donations
Posted Monday, August 16, 2010 in Current Affairs, News by ArmyofPakistan
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Recently Transparency international reported that the corruption level in Pakistan has touched new limits during the present government era . Initially the report alarmed everyone and it remained talk of town but then , as usual, people started forgetting about it and put this issue to the backburner . This is the problem that people of Pakistan have. People can not afford to be just dumb spectators. Silence is an attribute of the dead; he who is alive speaks. But in Pakistan it is a common practice that the masses become just silent spectators while tragedies occur. Why there is no public uproar against corruption and other misdeeds of the state functionaries. It is because we as individuals have become so corrupt ourselves that it is justified in saying that our state functionaries are from us hence no different than us. Let me make it crystal clear that I am in no way defending any of the state departments perceived to be corrupt but who is going to bell the cat, because it wont change itself unless we are not willing to mend our own ways because it starts with you, it starts with me. Whenever it rains , the city of Karachi suffers heavy losses. First we desperately yearn for rains, and when it falls, we pray for it to go, as the sewers overflow, roads cave in and electricity cut off for days.
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