UN seen meeting aid goal for flood-hit Pakistan
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The United Nations appeared to have met its target of $460 million in immediate aid for flood-stricken Pakistan on Thursday after the US and other nations significantly upped their pledges.
The rush of promised help came after UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, addressing a hastily called meeting of the General Assembly, urged governments and people to be even more generous than they were in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami and this year's Haiti earthquake, because the floods were a bigger "global disaster" with the Pakistan government now saying more than 20 million people need shelter, food and clean water. (AP)
