Deadly Earthquake

Who should we donate to with the confidence that the donation will find its way to the victims?

godot:

edhi

#2 why not army welfare trust?

well edhi is best way.......i prefer edhi rather army welfare trust.......

#4 yeah me too..... was just fishin for tempura

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?

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

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 !

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.

Godot,

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

Umer M.

Blithe,

Has there been any deaths in Pindi?

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.

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

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

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

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.