So according to the news I just heard on Radio 4,

[merciasounds]

they don't want food or medicines sent to Pakistan, they want MONEY to buy as it's already there - the aid bloke said, why bring in when they can buy it local -

Now, is it just me? I mean What The Funicular?

[joeluke]

Floods in Pakistan ain't our problem

[woofgang]

mmm sounds like the west have to donate but the east doesn't.....

[philkool]

Did the floods wash all there money away then ?
Or is does the taliban need more weapons.

[sammmo]

I feel very sorry for the pakistani people caught up in all these floods? but pakistan is not a poor country is it?

[1rovert]

They want money so they can buy guns and supplies for the taliban.

I don't remember pakistan giving money to us, when we had the floods in this country.

[sandyRoe]

So, you won't be giving, then?

[blackeyed]

@ sammo pakistan is a verypoor country.
recently there has been tremendous inflation and the poor just keeps getting poorer and the rich even richer..
and all the financial aid they get it doesn't really reach the needy people it usually ends up in government officials' bank accounts
so samo people( specially the ones caught up in the flood) are really poor:(

[Craftypig]

Saudi Arabia has been bankrolling Pakistan for decades, it would be intresting to see how much money and aid has been given to them from other islamic countries....