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Article: Pakistan president calls for foreign aid to help internally displaced people.
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- BBC Monitoring International Reports
- Article date:
- May 26, 2009
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Text of report by official news agency Associated Press of Pakistan (APP)
Islamabad, 26 May: President Asif Ali Zardari Tuesday [26 May] said political and economic assistance of world community would bolster Pakistan's efforts in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of more than 2 million people from the affected areas.
Talking to a delegation of US Senators who called on him here at the Aiwan e Sadr [President's House], the president appreciated the focus of the international community on helping Pakistan fight militancy and extremism and stressed that the international community must therefore step forward and assist Pakistan in this regard.
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