In the floods that started in July in Pakistan 21 million people were impacted, over 3 million lost their homes and their entire source of livelihoods, entire roads and infrastructure plants were wipedout in certain pockets, 1.5 million hectares of standing crop were destroyed.
The president said the federal government would also undertake a "comprehensive recovery effort" to rebuild devastated communities and restore infrastructure, including roads and bridges wipedout by Katrina, an effort he said would take years.