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Abu Dhabi to fund Islamabad hospital

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ISLAMABAD AID: Oil-rich Abu Dhabi will fund construction of $50 million hospital in Pakistan. (Getty Images)

The oil-rich emirate of Abu Dhabi is to fund the construction of a $50 million hospital in Islamabad as part of humanitarian aid to Pakistan, state WAM news agency said on Sunday.

The 200-bed facility, which will take two years to build, will be named the "Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan Hospital" after the president of the United Arab Emirates, a seven-state federation of which Abu Dhabi is the capital, the report said.

The donation is intended "to help the Pakistani people in the area of health", it added.

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Hundreds of thousands of Pakistani nationals live and work in the Emirates, which maintains good relationships with Pakistan.

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