Pakistan president: Flood recovery will take years
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Recovering from the devastating floods still battering Pakistan will take at least three years, the president said, as the waters swept south after leaving millions homeless and submerging millions of acres of farmland.
President Asif Ali Zardari defended the government's much-criticized response to the unprecedented floods but acknowledged recovery would take a very long time. "Three years is a minimum," Zardari said in an interview Monday with a small group of foreign reporters in the capital, Islamabad. (AP)
