{"id":63943,"date":"2020-04-12T10:00:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T05:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=63943"},"modified":"2020-04-10T17:33:22","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T12:33:22","slug":"pakistan-saarc-emergency-covid-19-fund-pkr-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-saarc-emergency-covid-19-fund-pkr-3-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan to give USD 3mn to SAARC Covid-19 Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: Pakistan agreed to contribute USD 3 million to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation\u2019s (SAARC) recently set-up Covid-19 emergency fund on Thursday, according to a news report. The Foreign Office released a statement to this effect. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-pandemic-relief-fund-2020-set-up.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"PM sets up COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund-2020; asks nation to donate generously (opens in a new tab)\">PM sets up COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund-2020; asks nation to donate generously<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s government pledged this contribution after a telephonic conversation between Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood and SAARC Secretary General Esala Ruwan Weerakoon. It also has its own Covid-19 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/covid-19-ehsaas-emergency-cash-program-kicks-off-across-country.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"relief fund (opens in a new tab)\">relief fund<\/a>, which citizens are encouraged to donate to. SAARC\u2019s fund is meant to aid the region in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, and has pledges from each of its members. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/corona-relief-fund-pm-join-live-telethon-today.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Corona Relief Fund: PM to join Live Telethon today (opens in a new tab)\">Corona Relief Fund: PM to join Live Telethon today<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan pledged USD 3 million; Sri Lanka, USD 5 million;\nIndia, USD 10 million; Bangladesh, USD 1.5 million; Nepal and Afghanistan, USD\n1 million each; Maldives, USD 0.2 million; and Bhutan, USD 0.1 million. The\nfund now has pledges worth a total of USD 21.8 million. Indian PM Narendra Modi\nproposed this fund in SAARC\u2019s virtual meeting between leaders on March 15. The\naim is to help all the countries in the region deal with this pandemic as\nefficiently as possible. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan agreed to contribute USD 3 million to the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation\u2019s (SAARC) recently set-up Covid-19 emergency fund on Thursday, according to a news report. The Foreign Office released a statement to this effect. \u00a0 Read: PM sets up COVID-19 Pandemic Relief Fund-2020; asks nation to donate generously Pakistan\u2019s government pledged this contribution after a telephonic conversation between Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood and SAARC Secretary General Esala Ruwan Weerakoon. It also has its own Covid-19 relief fund, which citizens are encouraged to donate to. SAARC\u2019s fund is meant to aid the region in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, and has pledges from each of its members. Read: Corona Relief Fund: PM to join Live Telethon today Pakistan pledged USD 3 million; Sri Lanka, USD 5 million; India, USD 10 million; Bangladesh, USD 1.5 million; Nepal and Afghanistan, USD 1 million each; Maldives, USD 0.2 million; and Bhutan, USD 0.1 million. The fund now has pledges worth a total of USD 21.8 million. Indian PM Narendra Modi proposed this fund in SAARC\u2019s virtual meeting between leaders on March 15. The aim is to help all the countries in the region deal with this pandemic as efficiently&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":63957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24075,25976,25971,25973],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-covid-19-pandemic","8":"tag-emergency-fund","9":"tag-relief-fund","10":"tag-saarc"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pakistan to give SAARC USD 3mn for Covid-19 efforts - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pakistan will give USD 3 million to SAARC&#039;s Covid-19 relief fund, which will help tackle the virus in various countries in the region.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-saarc-emergency-covid-19-fund-pkr-3-million.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pakistan to give SAARC USD 3mn for Covid-19 efforts - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Pakistan will give USD 3 million to SAARC&#039;s Covid-19 relief fund, which will help tackle the virus in various countries in the region.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-saarc-emergency-covid-19-fund-pkr-3-million.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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