So far, there are no reports of Filipinos killed by floods in Pakistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said. Know more:
So far, there are no reports of Filipinos killed by floods in Pakistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said.
There are only 3,000 Filipinos in Pakistan, and most of them live in Islamabad and Karachi. The hardest hit by the flood are south of Pakistani, particularly Sindh and Balochistan provinces which received eight times its average August rainfall.
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