Amount Pakistan pledged to Hurricane Katrina victims through the Red Cross: $1 million.
Amount US government pledged to October 2005 Pakistani Earthquake victims (as of today’s writing): $100,000.
“Our initial deployments of assistance are under way, and we stand ready to provide additional assistance as needed,” President George W Bush said.
“Foreign aid effort gets under way,” BBC News, Oct. 9, 2005.
More funding will probably be sent to Pakistan. Maybe I don’t understand how these things work but really, can’t Pakistan’s pledge to the Red Cross be given back now that it obviously needs the money more than the Gulf States do?