Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif praised Turkey’s humanitarian assistance for flood victims in the South Asian country, which has affected over 33 million people.
Speaking to a Turkish Red Crescent delegation led by its goodwill ambassador, Hakki Turunc, the prime minister praised the relief and rescue operations launched by several Turkish relief agencies, which assisted tens of thousands of flood victims across the country, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office.
Turkish Ambassador to Pakistan Mehmet Pacaci was also present at the meeting.
“Be it the earthquake of 2005, super floods of 2010, and recent floods, Türkiye has always come forward to help Pakistanis,” Sharif said.