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may Allah (swt) give everyone courage to deal with this tragedy.
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Sort of relative of ours in muzafarabad... the wife was a teacher at one of the colleges and the husband worked for a bank. Their kids were at home and they had locked the house from the outside. As soon as the tremors started they both left their work place and started running home with buildings falling left and right. She got home to find the kids safe and it was only their house in the neighbourhood that had not fallen. The husbands life was saved too cos he had run out of his office. She ran back with her kids towards the college and says the college had collapsed. She saw her own students dead, her collegues lying dead half under concrete and rubble, most of her neighbours dead, ppl they had spent 20 yrs with laying dead. Probably something she will never forget her entire life. She was fortunate to have escaped it all along with her husband and kids. Ofcourse there were other deaths in her family.
My chacha's neighbours were from kashmir too. Pretty much all their family was in muzafarabad. All dead in one stroke.
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--They need a Hug...
I will request families who are living close to those devastated areas that they must visit these areas, must hold people in their hands, give them jhappi, sit with them and share their grief. People do need moral supports, they need shoulders to give some rest to their deadbeat hearts, they need some one to sit with them to listen their stories of destruction, they need real jadu ki jhappi… they are completely devastated and shattered financially, physically and emotionally.
They need psychotherapy ASAP. They are shaken badly and have seen their homes falling on their love ones killing them, same homes once they built with their hands, …
They need assistance both mentally and emotionally. They need to be rescued and transferred from those places to some new and peaceful areas for few months at the least, so they can forget the images …otherwise they will lose their mental health and chances are they might become psychological patients for their whole life if not treated yet.
Please visit them with your families, please do not sit in homes and watch them dying on TV…go out…this is essential with all other rescue efforts and helps…
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I just talked to someone who knew someone who had a house in Muzaffarabad…
Apparently the family 
was safe but the house was totalled…And the guy had saved his entire lifesavings on it…Plus had taken out a loan t build it…
He just had 10,000 more Rs. to pay off, and that would have been it…
Now he has to pay the 10,000 Rs. for a house that does not exist…
But there are many who have lost much much more…
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I agree…these victims will be scarred for life…for some the trauma may never go away…but with emotional support from each other they will realise people really do care about them, and are willing to listen to their heartaches…i’m sure most of them won’t really receive any therapy as such…but u don’t necessarily need psychologists to help them, ordinary citizens can, if they just open their hearts and spend a little time with them…
I wish i was there, but all i can do is pray from afar…May Allah help heal these poor, innocent people, Ameen. 
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These stories are so sad, and there are countless more of these 
I feel like others here too…we are all extremely hurt about the situation…but these people need us and we must remain strong for them and keep doing wot we can…
May Allah end the misery of all the survivors and may their deceased loved ones rest in peace, Ameen
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Yes, there are so many sad stories. Just a few days ago I was reading online about a family in England who lost about a 100 relatives in the earthquake. I can’t find the link anymore. So sad!
Events like these also bring out the best in people. Like the spirit and bravery of this family:BBC NEWS | In pictures | A family hit by the Pakistani quake
They lost one relative and part of there house still stands and they do have food and water for now, nevertheless it is still a horrifying situation to be in. I truly admire their spirit.
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There, I found the other link:BBC NEWS | UK | 'We have lost over 100 relatives'
‘We have lost over 100 relatives’
By Jacqueline Head
BBC News
After the massive earthquake that devastated Pakistan killing at least 19,000 people one distraught family living in the UK tells how they have lost many close relatives and more than 100 members of their extended family in the disaster.
The Ahmed family sit in a small room of a shop that houses the Kashmir International Relief Fund in Leytonstone, in east London.
Kanweez fears for her family especially her sister
They have hardly slept for the past two days and their faces are worn and streaked with tears.
Many of their relatives live in a small village just outside Chehla-Bandi, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.
It is a remote, hilly area that has been badly hit by the earthquake, and no aid has yet reached the region.
So far they fear a cousin, a brother-in-law and his mother, brother, wife and four-month-old child are dead, and they have yet to hear from a sister in another village.
“We have uncles, aunts, and other relatives who are all dead,” Jamil Ahmed, from Leyton, said.
There is utter devastation, they called it judgement day
Saffeer Awan
“The local school collapsed and we don’t know how many girls are buried underneath. There is no help.”
The family are in constant contact with people in their village as they frantically try and get news about loved ones.
As they spoke of the relatives they had lost, their mobiles were constantly ringing as everyone scrambled for the latest information.
“Our brother-in-law, his mother, brother, wife and baby are all trapped. People can see their feet but they can’t reach them,” said Mr Ahmed.
‘No point crying’
Another brother-in-law of Mr Ahmed’s travelled to the area on Saturday night, with 30 others, to try and find missing relatives.
"When we first heard the news we started to shake. I am trying to block out the emotions and help as much as I can.
“There is no point in crying. We have to keep ourselves together for everyone else,” said Mr Ahmed.
His brother Saffeer Awan, 43, said: "Our family lives in a small town and everyone there is related.
Jamil Ahmed hopes aid will reach his village soon
"Some areas are cut off from other areas because of landslides.
"There is a mountain on the side of our village that has massive cracks in it.
"There is utter devastation, they called it judgement day. It does feel like judgement day to me.
"It’s devastating, it’s like nothing you have experienced. We can’t go out there yet because we could not survive. We feel so helpless.
"We don’t just feel for our own family, we feel for everybody. My wife is devastated. Every time she hears about something else she breaks down.
‘Too many to mourn’
"They buried 12 people today. Normally you would have 200 people going to one funeral, but only 25 people went to the burials. There is nobody around to go.
"People have laid many of the bodies out on the field, they are sitting with the dead bodies because there is no one to help bury them.
“There is nobody to dig graves for these people.”
Saffeer feels helpless in the quake’s aftermath
His sister Kanweez Ahmed, 47, said many people were too scared to go back inside because of the aftershocks.
"There are so many people who have lost their lives, we don’t know who to mourn. There are too many to mourn.
Zahid Bashir, their nephew, said his brother is a doctor at a local hospital, but fortunately was not working there when the building collapsed.
“He said all the doctors at the hospital are dead. There is no one to give medical help.”
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I know its unrealistic and a bit early to talk about..but some heads need to roll because of the deaths caused by shoddy construction material not just in the towers but in major hospitals in the earthquake hit areas.
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My cousins friend (class mate) died in Margalla tower :( he was only 18.
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^and schools.
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true..that goes without saying..I know of one major Hospital in the disaster zone where everyone knew that bad material had been used (and everyone knows the fat cats who made a killing on the project) and because of collapsing staircases and roofs they have to treat patients in the open.
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agree....
but dont all go at once...
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So true
Its agonizing to watch the TV, a family lost all their three children. People can cope with loss of property but such loss of loved ones is so difficult to bear.
Wondering...after the Quake
Yes...wondering...the quake of 7.6 on the scale of Richter lasted for some 2-6 minutes...
The quake took place at around 08.00 AM (PST)...most people must be awake at that time...so why they could'nt get out of their homes/schools and workplaces...to escape wrath of poorly built buildings...
PS: They say...quakes don't kill people...its the buildings that kill...
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i heard on news yesterday that a man killed his son with his own hands ...... he was rescued by some people...but the old man said...he will die from hunger.. so he better die....
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Broke my heart reading this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051013/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_quake
"A 22-year-old woman trapped in the rubble in Muzaffarabad died Thursday after the aftershock disrupted efforts to rescue her, rescuers and witnesses said.
British, German and Turkish teams had worked until 2 a.m., trying to extract the woman after a sniffer dog detected her in the debris. But they were forced to suspend their efforts amid fears for their own safety when the aftershock shifted the building in which they were working.
When the rescuers returned after daybreak, the sniffer dog whined, indicating that it had detected the smell of a corpse. Some rescue workers wept.
“It was a very difficult decision to leave a living person and I had a responsibility to my team. It could have meant their death,” said Steff Hopkins, a British team leader."