Bilawal discusses challenges to education amid flood devastation with Malala at UNGA

Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met the Nobel Peace Prize winner on Tuesday. Malala Yousuf Zai At the United Nations (UN) to discuss the challenges facing education after the devastation caused by Pakistan A devastating flood.

In a brief statement on Twitter, the foreign minister said he discussed the challenges facing the education of millions of young children affected by Pakistan’s floods and climate disasters.

The foreign minister’s tweet said that the two leaders also discussed women’s rights and girls’ education.

Record monsoon rains and snowmelt in northern Pakistan triggered floods that affected about 33 million people in the South Asian country of 220 million, causing $30 billion in damage to homes, crops, bridges, roads and livestock.

Millions of displaced people are living in the open, exposing them to stagnant water-borne diseases. Officials have said they are in desperate need of food, shelter, clean drinking water, toilets and medicine.

The foreign minister had arrived in Washington a day ago. Participation in the 77th session of the UNGA.

The foreign minister has a busy schedule, attending various high-level meetings and events, bilateral meetings with several of his counterparts, media and think-tank discussions, as well as the Group of 77 (developing countries) and China’s foreign ministers’ annual meetings. To preside over the meeting. , OIC Annual Coordination Meeting of Foreign Ministers, and participation in the meeting of the OIC Coordination Group on Jammu and Kashmir.