Deadly Earthquake

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I heard about the earth quake in the afternoon , nd found further details on tv , my eyes well up at every single sight ...the destruction is huge ... but , most important at the moment is to rescue those trapped under te collapsed buildings ... our prayers r all with you !

-peace.

PS , i hope all the chowkies living in these areas are safe ... SIR hope u r fine !

Really sad event. My hearts goes out to all the victims....hard to even imagine vilages after villages flattened out and people burried alive under rubble.
May god give people strength to cope with this tragidy.

I was the first to break the news on CHOWK, within minutes of the disaster. With land lines out of order, I was able to do it through the cell phone internet. Casualties are massive and unfortunately likely to rise as more areas are reached. Some things are for sure.

Pakistan will need an unprecedented international relief effort as the most efficient machine in these areas is itself been hit very badly. Encampments, military transport and military hospitals have been obliterated, and units are working on twin fronts ie reorganising themselves and carrying out relief.

Most of the road communication system is blocked by landslides in which mountains have moved. Cargo helicopters like Chinhook in low areas and Russian high altitude helicopters like MI 17 1nd MI 24 are badly needed.

Earth moving equipment like dozers, cranes and lifts are need. But the biggest problem is , how to get them there.

There is a massive need of antibiotics, plasma, blood and field hospitals with generators to keep them warm in the upcoming sub zero temperatures.

Last but not least, the myth of Basha and Skardu Dams has been buried for good. Despite caution fro0m geoligists, there was a lobby in Pakistan that continued to advocate these projects. Kalabagh is therefore inevitable.

There is likely to be a proliferation of fly by night relief groups which will in due course disappear as soon as they came. Therefore be aware.

Well what is the relief agency. Well it remains the pakistan Armed Forces as they alone area are capable of operating in these areas. It has to be realised that everyone will have to ultimately work through the Army.

God Bless and Cheerios

On behalf of the Hindus Community of Greater Akron Area (Ohio, USA) we pray for all those adversely afffected by this deadly earthquake. While we can never fully know why such disasters happen to innocent people, we want to share their pain as fellow human beings. May God give you the strength to bear this enormous burden.

On behalf of the Hindus Community of Greater Akron Area (Ohio, USA) we pray for all those adversely afffected by this deadly earthquake. While we can never fully know why such disasters happen to innocent people, we want to share their pain as fellow human beings. May God give you the strength to bear this enormous burden.

“Seemingly, God is Angry at Pakistan” - Mohammad Gill, Circa 3 weeks ago.

I will do an Ardaas for the victims in the Gurudwara.
Sad news.

What a tragedy! Beyond all human understanding. Suffering directly from hell.

Blithe,

Has there been any deaths in Pindi?

Godot,

Go for Edhi. On GEO snippets, I could see his ambulances.

Umer M.

There was a 7.6 earthquake here...

It started here at 8:55 am. We woke with the violent tremors... All of us immediately went outside under the open sky, wheeling our grandfather with us.

After about 30mins we went back in, only to find the house wobbling again (from aftershocks), and us having to run back out again... We continued this process to about 5:30pm...

We were lucky, at least as far as our immediate family is concerned (Allah has been very kind).


However, some friends and acquaintances were not as lucky. We had family fiends living on the 10h floor of one of the ‘downed’ Margalla tenements...

The rescue effort by the Military Govt/ Army has been very dismal... For up to five hours after the quakes started, they could do nothing except provide the media with bravado and jingoism on ``being fully equipped to handle the situation.`` In reality they were totally and utterly helpless, but more worried about PR.

Private TV channels brought in some horrific images, especially of a boy sandwiched between two uncompromising boulders, crying out for help. Alas, there were no tools to get the job done.

Today I am proud , proud of my countrymen who fought this natural disaster and won . Mother Nature I think is `capitalist` , always takes on poor and defenceless and rarely touch rich but anyway , we as a nation today won . I am proud Pakistani today , proud of my country men , proud of our courage to stand such a disaster .
I feel for those 200 girls who died in Mansehra, NWFP , Pakistan , I feel for my country`s poor soldiers who died , I feel for my mothers,sisters,brothers and others who lost there lives and relatives today . But what I learned today is that in momments of grief , we all are standing up togather from Karachi to Kyber , from Quetta to Muzzaffarabad from Islamabad to Gujar Khan , atleast for today we are united . May Allah give us strength and energy to build , what we lost .
Pakistan Zindabad !

i don`t see the army on geo tv, i see civilians helping each other

I turned to the two Pakistani channels that I have at 7:15 am PST.... Geo was showing pop music program ``Katakat with Kuki`` and ARY was showing ``Heart to Heart with Samina``... I caught a 3 minute bulletin at 8:00 on Geo which gave less info than AP/AFP @ yahoo and 2 out of these 3 minutes were taken by Altaph Bhai`s condolence message... WTF? I mean WTF? I pay $25 per month to watch Kuki and Samina at the time of Pakistan`s worst natural disaster? WTF?

Re: # 6
Ditto!!!!

You know if you send email (snail mail) to Geo or for that matter any Pakistani new paper or channel, you will never hear anything from them. I wonder why they want to hear from us and advertise emails for correspondence?

They do not want our feedback and do not know their responsibility, the owner of Geo is too busy getting his employees pregnant....to be precise his secretary.