U.S. Department of Defense
On September 9th, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III called General Qamar Javed Bajwa, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, to offer his sincere condolences to the people of Pakistan amid the devastating floods there. He commended the heroic efforts of the Government of Pakistan and the Pakistani military response to the ongoing disaster. During the call, they also discussed DoD's and USCENTCOM's assistance to USAID in the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid to Pakistan. Gen. Bajwa detailed the catastrophic effects of the flooding there, impacting 33 million people, and thanked the Secretary for the U.S. Government's assistance.
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