Pakistan's Success Story: Rising from ruins of the 10/8 2005 Earthquake

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^ according to you Punjab started loving the MQM as they headed the relief efforts lol!

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All!

This is also time to praise those who came to Kashmir from far off places and helped us out. Here are few examples.

  1. Religious and social organizations of Pakistan.
  2. American Army with their valuable assets. My hats off to the Chinook Aviators of US Army.
  3. Thousands of volunteers from all parts of the globe.

Pakistan army deployed in Kashmir also suffered heavy losses. Their hospitals, the mule brigade, and other logistic systems were heavily damaged. However our soldiers showed great courage and leadership. They quickly recovered (and they should have, they are trained to do so) and provided necessary organizational support.

It is time that we seriously consider investing in heavy lift Chinook helicopters. They are essential for maintaining our air-support and logistic systems in difficult circumstance.

Peace.

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anti, you forgot to mention cuba... castro himself sent some good ppl to help us out...

Women want rich husbands
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Because everyone on GS knows I'm no fan of lefties ;-).

Ok if it makes you happy (and I'll try my level best to bring few smiles to this discussion)

Cuba, BDesh, India, Iran, EU, Canada, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, UAE etc. are all covered in #3.

I just listed the 3 quick bullets in the order of their importance. That's all. Didn't mean to ignore socialist gods :).

Peace!

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Re: pakistani earthquake relief efforts are horrible..no they are excellent

There is chance that the houses were built, proper facilities were provided, a ‘guided-tour’ was provided to the press and then keys of the houses were handed over to… ‘andha baatayn rewarian apnay hi apnon ko’?

Anyway, I hope people who were affected get/got some compensation as any kind of ‘compensation’ can in no way really compensate their losses.

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MQM is not a directly relevant subject here. Please stay on topic, don’t derail/ignite yet again, re-read this, pay attention;
http://www.paklinks.com/gs/showthread.php?t=265663
and never complain after any administrative action.
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For Pakistan and the Earthquake victims' sake, stay united and be respectful, cooperative at all times, in real life as Pakistanis, and here too.

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Good and balanced reply to Spock's concerns.

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He said all parts of the globe.

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Hey you omitted Turkey!

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**http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/07/AR2007100700572.html

Pakistan’s Quake recovery Seen as Success**

By MATTHEW PENNINGTON
The Associated Press
Sunday, October 7, 2007; 11:33 AM

ISLAMABAD

Two years after the earthquake that killed 80,000 people in the mountains of northern Pakistan, survivors struggle with landslides and sky-high prices to rebuild, but virtually all will have adequate shelter this winter. The mammoth effort to reconstruct homes and amenities for 3.5 million people has been lauded by international donors as a model response to a massive natural disaster.

Some 210,000 quake-resistant homes have been rebuilt and another 350,000 are under construction across the rugged terrain of Kashmir and North West Frontier Province, now dotted with new corrugated iron roofs and other signs of building activity.
There have been setbacks. Monsoon rains slowed work and some international aid groups were briefly evacuated this summer when tribesmen in the quake zone destroyed their offices to display their anger over the deadly Pakistan army raid on Islamabad’s Red Mosque.
But now only 6,000 quake victims are left sheltering in tents, easing once dire fears of a humanitarian crisis in the harsh Himalayan winter that usually sets in by December.
“There will be no problem whatsoever this winter. The whole area has changed,” said Lt. Gen. Nadeem Ahmed, deputy chairman of Pakistan’s Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority. He hoped that most houses would be finished by year’s end.
The magnitude 7.6 quake struck on the morning of Oct. 8, 2005, crushing residents in their mud-and-stone rural homes and thousands of children inside poorly built schools.
A vast international relief effort, backed by Pakistan’s army, staved off more deaths in the months that followed.
The challenges of the $4.3 billion campaign to rebuild were, and remain, enormous: to construct 6,500 schools, 800 clinics and hospitals and repair 4,000 miles of roads; to cater for thousands of orphans, widows and hundreds of amputees and others disabled by their injuries.

Ahmed said donors have made good on their funding commitments and Pakistan is in a position to rebuild back better, although for now, many schools and clinics are in prefabricated structures. He predicted that most reconstruction would be complete within three years.
He said the two worst-hit towns, Muzaffarabad and Balakot, were being relocated.
Survivors, recovering slowly from a disaster in which virtually everone lost at least one family member, are more pessimistic.

Many complain about inflation in the cost of building materials and transportation and say that life in the harsh yet idyllic mountains of Kashmir _ a disputed territory that is divided between Pakistan and India _ will never be the same.
“It will take many years to return my village and my home to the condition they were before the earthquake,” said Mohammed Ayub, a 35-year old electrician as he received the last installment of the $2,900 grant from the government to rebuild his house.

His elder sister was killed and his father was injured in the temblor at their home village of Hariala Gujrian, about 22 miles southeast of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir. He said it would cost $8,300 to rebuild their house and plans to work in the United Arab Emirates to raise money for his family.
The minister for rehabilitation and reconstruction in Pakistani Kashmir, Naseem Khan, said the vast scale of the disaster meant it would take time to recover, but said progress was promising.
“So far 70 percent of quake survivors have started the reconstruction of their houses in rural areas, and 98 percent of survivors have a roof over their heads,” he said.
Among the unlucky ones is Mohammed Zamir, 38, father of five living in Thotha village, 12 miles from Muzaffarabad.
His family has suffered from the recurrent landslides that have always been a problem in this mountainous region but have worsened since the quake destabilized the terrain further.
“Our land was damaged by landslides triggered by the earthquake and now we are living in tents on rented land,” Zamir said. “NGOs gave us iron sheets to build a shelter, but we have nowhere to build it.”

  • Associated Press writer Roshan Mughal in Muzaffarabad contributed to this* report.
what does a girl mean ... ?
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So, I am waiting for the Pro-MQM/Musharraf people to accept my challenge; I will personally refer them to the people I know are homeless and still living in shelters, and if they are convinced the government did nothing, they can personally make donations to them...

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Tasnim Aslam he foreig affairs spokesperson is saying today that the big countries have not honoured their commitments of donation.

Does anyone here...
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Mashallah. A great effort by the Pakistani govt., the NGO's, relief workers, and all the people that have donated money.

May Allah grant all those involed sawab for their efforts. Ameen.

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Lets wait till our own Government honors its own words...

~Congratulations Sannan~
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[QUOTE]

May allah grant all those involed sawab for their efforts. Ameen

[/QUOTE]

Write Allah with capital A.

►◄ Congrats WaleedHBK ►◄
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Got these from BBC.

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^ Now lets see Mad Scientist answer those two BBC articles... seriously, being a govt stooge is one thing but denying something thats so obvious and infront of you is a sign of a delusional mind... He said I was lying or making things p when I said ppl were homeless and would believe a credible source, is that credible enough for you?

*Much reconstruction work has been done. But thousands of people have still not been able to rebuild their homes. *

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^ some people don't understand it intentionally. They have come here to bash the Pakistani government on every single thing it does...so no point really arguing with them...cuz its not gonna get through their thick head.

Are male fashion designers and make up artists..
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^ thick headedness is praising a totalitarian regime blindly, and if you see homeless ppl asking for help, you should atleast have the decency to admit they need help instead of blindly praising things like our minister Sheeda Talli is so fond of...