• The Sindh chief minister said when UN Secretary-General General António Guterres came to Pakistan they visited Mohenjo-daro
• He said the losses were incurred across the entire Sindh including in his village.
• “Even the mosque built by my grandfather in 1960 has been damaged,” he said.

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah on Sunday said the provincial government was taking a loan of 1.5 billion dollars from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, Bol News reported.

“We will compensate for the losses incurred across Sindh as a result of flood. 70 per cent of houses have completely been destroyed and 30 per cent are half damaged. We have been trying to protect Ranikot Fort (The Great Wall of Sindh) for two years,” Murad Ali Shah said in a statement.

The Sindh chief minister said when UN Secretary-General General António Guterres came to Pakistan they visited Mohenjo-daro, an archaeological site, with him. He said the losses were incurred across the entire Sindh including in his village.

“Even the mosque built by my grandfather in 1960 has been damaged,” he said.

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He thanked the deft people of Italy saying that they taught and made the government understand different things.

On December 8, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had appealed to philanthropists including industrialists, and expatriates to support the government’s flood rehabilitation efforts by replicating the model of building 100-unit prefabricated houses for flood victims.

Addressing here at the launch ceremony of prefabricated residential units in Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, the prime minister had urged the affluent to ‘adopt’ the flood-hit people of Balochistan and Sindh by providing them the infrastructure equipped with necessary facilities.

The PM in September had announced to construct residential units for the people of Tank and Dera Ismail Khan, who were displaced by the massive flashfloods in Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. The project worth Rs 140 million was carried out as a gesture of philanthropy by Menzies Aviation and former special assistant to prime minister on aviation Captain Shujaat Azeem.

Shehbaz Sharif, who handed over keys of the residential units to flood victims, had expressed satisfaction that the accommodation comprising two rooms, a kitchenette and a toilet would provide relief to the displaced people.