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i'm happy that both nations are going on the right track. let this catastrophy be the guiding light for future generations. I think it is in best interest for both nations and will help them heal the trust. there is nothing wrong in taking help like blankets, medicines, e.t.c. but helicopters or other military aid not right now.
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and i agree with frozen fire 100%. if they help us then we'll definately going to help them in thier time of need and this atmosphere will bring people of both nations together and might help us resolve our issues in the future.
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We already did during Earth Quake in Gujarat
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^^ you sure, they wont get any other quake or tsunami type disaster? ( although i want them to stay stable, but hey...u never know )
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Pakistan sends planeload of relief goods to India
(Updated at 1130 PST)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan dispatched a planeload of tents and blankets for
India’s earthquake victims on Tuesday, following a day of confusion
over whether New Delhi would accept help from Islamabad, sources
disclosed.
Pak military C-130 aircraft took off from Islamabad airport at 9:24
a.m. (0424 GMT) for Ahmedabad, the biggest city in India’s quake-hit
western state of Gujarat. Government sources said they had sent 200
tents and 2,500 blankets in the aircraft on Tuesday and would send
three similar consignments in the next two days.
http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/jan/29quak27.htm
K J M Varma in Islamabad
Pakistan on Monday announced it would begin airlifting a large quantity
of tents and blankets for distribution among Gujarat earthquake victims
after India conveyed willingness to accept its offer to send relief
supplies, Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar said.
Sattar told state-run Pakistan Television that planes carrying relief
supplies would make a number of sorties to Ahmedabad on Tuesday.
The latest announcement followed Monday morning’s bitter comments made
by military ruler General Pervez Musharraf stating that India has
declined to accept Islamabad’s offer to send relief supplies saying
there were enough relief supplies available at home to cater to the
needs of quake victims.
A statement issued by Pakistan’s foreign officer, however, said that
President Mohammad Rafiq Tarar and Chief Executive Gen Pervez Musharraf
have sent messages of condolence and sympathy to the President and the
prime minister expressing their sense of grief at the tragic loss of
life and property caused by the severe earthquake in parts of India,
specially in Gujarat.
As a gesture of goodwill, the government of Pakistan has offered to
provide relief assistance for the quake-affected people, the statement
said.
The emergency relief cell of Pakistan has organised the required number
of tents and blankets in consultation with the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs for despatch to Ahmedabad in a number of air sorties starting
Tuesday.
Strangely, in his interview to the PTV, Sattar said the Indian
government has responded to the offer made by Pakistan on Saturday
indicating Islamabad should send tents and blankets to provide relief
to the quake-hit people of Gujarat.
There was no official explanation available in Islamabad to clarify
what prompted Gen Musharraf to state that India has declined Pakistan’s
offer of relief assistance.
Reacting to Gen Musharraf’s remarks, Indian High Commissions officials
in Islamabad denied that India has rejected Pakistan’s offer.
The officials said that the two countries were still in touch each
other to identify the items to be sent for relief.
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Pakistan has already accepted Indian help.
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Indian soldiers helping our army with bunker across the LOC. Apparantly got an invite. Head of UN operation urging Pak to let Indian aid over LOC.
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Pakistan denies India army report
Pakistan has flatly denied that Indian troops crossed the de facto border in the disputed territory of Kashmir to help the earthquake relief effort.
The Indian army says its troops have twice crossed the Line of Control at the invitation of Pakistani soldiers.
Correspondents say images of Indian troops helping on the Pakistani side would be embarrassing to the authorities in Pakistan.
Both sides claim Kashmir and have fought two wars over the territory.
A Pakistani army spokesman told the BBC that reports of Indian troops helping Pakistani troops rebuild their bunkers were “unimaginable” and “purely fabricated”.
“None of our bunkers on the [Line of Control] were destroyed by the earthquake so there is no possibility that Indian troops have helped Pakistani troops. This is pure fabrication,” Major General Shaukat Sultan insisted.
But the Indian army is standing by its account, the Reuters news agency reports.
“A disaster like this can certainly help improve relations between the two sides,” Brigadier D S Hooda of the Indian army told Reuters. “It was spontaneous help.”
According to the Indian army, the Pakistani soldiers invited the Indians to help them rebuild some of their bunkers after sleeping in the open in increasingly cold temperatures.
Normally, such a crossing would have resulted in bloodshed, says the BBC’s Sanjeev Srivastava in Srinagar.
The Indian army expressed frustration that it could not do more.
One soldier pointed towards Muzaffarabad, the devastated capital of Pakistani-administered Kashmir and said Indian helicopters could reach it with supplies within 15 minutes.
With the bridge connecting the Indian and Pakistani sectors of Kashmir destroyed, Delhi and Islamabad both also waived travel restrictions to allow some Kashmiri families to return home through the Wagah border in Punjab.
Our correspondent adds that there is growing demand for easier access across the divided valley, allowing people to cross over to try to help loved ones on the other side.
Nuclear denial
The Pakistan military spokesman also said that rumours to the effect that the earthquake might have caused some damage to Pakistan’s nuclear installations were also baseless.
“The nuclear installations are built in a such a way so that they can even survive air attack. So to say that the earthquake might have caused some damage to the installations is completely untrue,” he added.
A new earth tremor thought to be an aftershock has been felt in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
There were no immediate reports of damage or casualties from the quake recorded at 0123 local time Thursday (2023 GMT Wednesday) by the US Geological Survey.
With a magnitude of 5.6 and centring on an area 135km north of the city, it was the strongest tremor recorded since the weekend in Pakistan which has felt several dozen aftershocks
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CBS reported Indian helicopters with aid supplies were denied landing in Pakistani Kashmir, saying that there was no space to land.
http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/10/12/kashmir-quake051012.html
Indian troops cross Kashmir border to help Pakistan
Last Updated Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:29:34 EDT
CBC News
Indian soldiers have crossed the border into the Pakistani zone of disputed Kashmir to help rebuild a bunker destroyed by this weekend’s deadly earthquake.
“It is unprecedented in the manner that our soldiers have gone across the border to extend help,” Lt.-Col. K Seghal said.
“A few soldiers from the Pakistani side shouted for help to our boys to clear the debris and in adverse weather conditions our soldiers went across to redo their flattened bunkers so that they could sleep at night,” Col. Seghal said.
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Pak denies Indian soldiers crossed LOC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4337696.stm
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CCB is not the one freezing in the cold and watching his children die of hunger. Ask those suffering Kashmiris if they care where aid comes from.
BTW why was an Indian plane carrying blankets, medicine and desi MREs turned back from Islamabad?
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http://editorial.gettyimages.com/source/search/details_pop.aspx?iid=55921375&cdi=0
another nice one.
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Indian sector hit worst by the quake is Uri, which lies just across Bagh district on the AJK side, and that Bagh is also among the worst hit districts. Pakistani government should have accepted India offer to send troops with heavy machinery, medicines and other relief goods to help the affected people where relief agencies have not been able to go.
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Oh Baboo! Read the papers!
The plane couldn’t land because the airport had no space. Bharati plane did come to Islamabad few hours later.
Bunch of Bharati Baboos don’t want to read the news and still play “Siasat-daan” (politicians) “Thook-daan” (spit buckets) on the net.
Damn Baboos!
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If Pakistan can accept help from Israel then why not India. After all Pakistan has more in common with India than any other country in the world.
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^^ O Baboo! We have accepted help from Bharat. They sent a plane load of stuff we said thank you. Now they are sending a train of relief goods and we'll accept that too. The problem is involving Bharati military in Kashmir's hot zone.
Read Bharati experts. They accept the fact that Bharat would have refused Pak army entry to their hot zone Kashmir as well.
So the comparison with Israelis is a moot point.
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No it is not a moot point at all. The issues or animosity reside on both sides. I am not against the acceptance of help from either side; I am merely pointing out that at the time of need and desparation a lot is done without much cosideration to immediate political issues.
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Despite my unusually young appearnce, I wasn’t born yesterday. Ya right. While German and Chinese planes were landing left and right Indian plane was turned back “for lack of space”. I gotta believe Mush got livid when heard that some super-zealot turned back Indian help and countermanded the refusal. Please don’t make me laugh. Ham itne bewakoof nahin hain.
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http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2005/10/17/indian_army_praised_for_aiding_kashmiris/