Europeans could do more for Pakistan

The EU has raised its emergency aid for Pakistan to 115 million euros and is planning an international donor conference in October. It's about time, writes the left-liberal daily Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Finally the Europeans have plucked up the courage to put the unimaginable suffering - houses carried off by floods, raped women, missing children, hunger, thirst, the threat of epidemics - above the negative image associated with Pakistan in the Western world. Nuclear weapons, corruption and terrorists - and a president and government with a clearly cynical disinterest in the fate of their own population. ... Those who provide financial support for the country's long-term reconstruction will not only ease the victims' suffering, but also work towards establishing peace in the region. Certainly, it will take more than a couple of million euros to do this. The Western states that saved their banks with hundreds of billions will have to dig deeper into their pockets for the stability of Pakistan."

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