Pakistan's 'image deficit' may be behind difficulty in fundraising: UN
Relief agencies are having trouble obtaining funds to help millions of Pakistan flood victims as the country suffers from an “image deficit”, a UN spokeswoman said on Monday.
“We note often an image deficit with regards to Pakistan among Western public opinion,” said Elizabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“As a result, Pakistan is among countries that are poorly financed, like Yemen,” she added.
The Unied Nations has been struggling to obtain US$460-million to provide emergency aid to six million victims of the country ravaged by heavy flooding. Only a fifth of the required funds have been pledged since the appeal was launched on August 11.
Melanie Brooks, spokeswoman of the humanitarian group Care International stressed that the UN must explain to donor states that “the money is not going to go to the hands of the Talibans.”
“The victims are the mothers, the farmers, children. But in the past, information linked to Pakistan has always been linked to Talibans and terrorism,” she said.
According to Pakistani authorities, around a quarter of the country which extends over 800,000 square kilometres nd counts 167 million inhabitants, have been affected by the floods over the last three weeks.
The UN said billions would be needed in the long term to reconstruct the villages, infrastructure and harvests devastated by the floods.
anonymous
They have earned all the deficit in image that they have. When they choose such items as fresh water and flushing toilets over a nuclear deterrent then I would consider aid appropriate. I predict that the Muslim brotherhood will donate a pittance with Saudi Arabia leading the way, as usual. I would wager that Israel is more likely to donate more than 90% of Muslim countries.
Every Muslim country has an image deficit problem right now, with Pakistan being close to the worst of them. It is particularly corrupt, so the expectation of any donation being used to help the needy is very low, and unfortunately helping the needy in Pakistan is probably helping the enemy, the fundamentalist Muslims, at the same time. Since Islam is supposedly such a strong brotherhood, I would expect the Muslim countries to donate many billions of dollars of aid. How much have they donated so far? It is a sad situation, but with 6 billion people in the world, resources are getting stretched thinly to help all the poor ones, and it is only getting worse as each year passes. I would rather help our friends than those supporting our enemies.
Relief agencies are having trouble obtaining funds to help millions of Pakistan flood victims as the country suffers from an “image deficit”, a UN spokeswoman said on Monday.
“We note often an image deficit with regards to Pakistan among Western public opinion,” said Elizabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
“As a result, Pakistan is among countries that are poorly financed, like Yemen,” she added.
The Unied Nations has been struggling to obtain US$460-million to provide emergency aid to six million victims of the country ravaged by heavy flooding. Only a fifth of the required funds have been pledged since the appeal was launched on August 11.
Melanie Brooks, spokeswoman of the humanitarian group Care International stressed that the UN must explain to donor states that “the money is not going to go to the hands of the Talibans.”
“The victims are the mothers, the farmers, children. But in the past, information linked to Pakistan has always been linked to Talibans and terrorism,” she said.
According to Pakistani authorities, around a quarter of the country which extends over 800,000 square kilometres nd counts 167 million inhabitants, have been affected by the floods over the last three weeks.
The UN said billions would be needed in the long term to reconstruct the villages, infrastructure and harvests devastated by the floods.
anonymous
They have earned all the deficit in image that they have. When they choose such items as fresh water and flushing toilets over a nuclear deterrent then I would consider aid appropriate. I predict that the Muslim brotherhood will donate a pittance with Saudi Arabia leading the way, as usual. I would wager that Israel is more likely to donate more than 90% of Muslim countries.
Every Muslim country has an image deficit problem right now, with Pakistan being close to the worst of them. It is particularly corrupt, so the expectation of any donation being used to help the needy is very low, and unfortunately helping the needy in Pakistan is probably helping the enemy, the fundamentalist Muslims, at the same time. Since Islam is supposedly such a strong brotherhood, I would expect the Muslim countries to donate many billions of dollars of aid. How much have they donated so far? It is a sad situation, but with 6 billion people in the world, resources are getting stretched thinly to help all the poor ones, and it is only getting worse as each year passes. I would rather help our friends than those supporting our enemies.
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