Prime Minister of India - Dr. Manmohan Singh

PM speaks to Pakistan counterpart - offers assistance

The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh called the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani today to express his sense of sorrow and to condole the deaths resulting from the huge floods that have devastated parts of Pakistan. The Prime Minister said that the Government of India had already made an offer of assistance and was ready to do more to assist in the relief effort.

Dr. Singh said that in such times of natural disasters, all of South Asia should rise to the occasion and extend every possible help to the people of Pakistan affected by the tragedy.