In a meeting with Pakistani Ambassador to Tehran M.B. Abbasi on Monday, Makarem Shirazi called floods in Pakistan a great catastrophe and called on all Muslims to help flood-stricken people in Pakistan.
He also urged those countries, which claim to be human rights supporter, to live up to their promises and help the Pakistani people.
The United Nations warned Monday that up to 3.5 million children were at risk from water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan and said it was bracing to deal with thousands of potential cholera cases.
Fresh rains threaten further anguish for millions of people that have been affected by Pakistan's worst floods for 80 years and UN chief Ban Ki-moon has urged the world to speed up international aid urgently, AFP reported.
Described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today, the three-week disaster has affected 20 million people, and has destroyed crops, infrastructure, towns and villages, according to the Pakistani government.
A third of Pakistan is now under water, and fresh rainfall threatens two more waves of flooding in the southern Sindh province.
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