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October 12, 2005 Wednesday Ramazan 7, 1426




Pakistan to build new cities after quake -PM ISLAMABAD, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Pakistan will build new cities in place of those flattened by the massive earthquake that hit Pakistani Kashmir and surrounding areas, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said on Wednesday. "What we are planning to do is, perhaps, build new cities where they've been damaged rather than just rebuild what we had before," he told a news conference after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ."So we are going to build new cities and where people own titles of land we'll swap them with new land in the same vicinity in an organised way," he said. Pakistan has received aid pledges amounting to $350 million from overseas while the President's Relief Fund had raised one billion rupees ($16.6 million) locally so far, Aziz said, adding that his government was setting up an Earthquake Rehabilitation Authority. The new authority would ensure that rebuilding takes place in a proper way instead of the haphazard planning that characterises most Pakistani towns and cities. Aziz said some telecommunications and electricity supplies had been restored in Muzaffarabad and spraying had begun to reduce the risk of disease from the decomposing bodies trapped beneath the rubble and ruptured sewage pipes. Specialist teams were due to arrive from the United States to help clear roads to reach communities still cut off throughout the afflicted region . Repairing roads was critical ahead of the onset of winter as northern areas had already received their first snowfall, the prime minister said. (Posted @ 20:15 PST)


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India opens pockets for quake-hit neighbour NEW DELHI, Oct 12 (Reuters) - The Pakistani High Commission in a statement said Wednesday it had opened an account to receive donations for the quake victims with an international bank in New Delhi but gave no further details. Indian television is publicising the account along with disaster funds for Indian victims of the quake,including the Prime Minister's Relief Fund. A leading software exporter of India said it would give 10 million rupees ($226,000) each for Pakistan and occupied Kashmir. India's pharmaceutical companies have also offered to donate medicine.(Posted @ 20:30 PST)


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Rice offers quake condolences in ally Pakistan ISLAMABAD, Oct 12 (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Wednesday to personally offer condolences and aid to America's key ally in the "war on terror" after its devastating earthquake. She said she came to "express directly" to President Pervez Musharraf and other leaders that the United States was "touched" by the disaster. "Our support is not just for today but tomorrow as well," Rice told reporters at Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz's residence. "We are not just friends between governments but between people," she said. Rice said US President George W. Bush had asked Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to coordinate between the US and Pakistani militaries to help earthquake victims and had pledged an initial 50 million dollars in aid to Pakistan. Without going into specifics, Rice said "there were some immediate needs" including blankets and water purifiers. Aziz said Rice and Japanese Senior Vice Foreign Minister Shuzen Tanigawa, whom he also met Wednesday in Islamabad, had promised helicopters to help the aid operation. Aziz said "close to 40 helicopters" were now sending relief to the affected area. He said Rice was the highest ranking foreign visitor since Saturday's earthquake and called the United States "a close and important friend". So far at least eight US choppers had been diverted to Pakistan from military operations in Afghanistan and the Pentagon announced Tuesday that up to 30 could eventually be sent to help with the relief effort. The United States has also committed to send specialists to help Pakistan clear roads and remove rubble, Aziz said, noting that several roads remained unpassable.(Posted @ 20:10 PST)


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Freedom fighters launch 'jihad' for quake relief in Kashmir BAGH, Pakistan, Oct 12 (AFP) - Militants waging a freedom movement in occupied Kashmir have announced jihad or "holy war" to help victims of the massive earthquake. About a dozen young volunteers of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, formerly the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was blacklisted as a "terrorist organisation" by the United States, brought food, medicine, blankets and drinking water for shell-shocked locals, arriving days ahead of government relief teams and even the Pakistani army, witnesses said. Spokesman Yahya Mujahid said the group had mobilised around 2,500 volunteers for relief work. "There is no other activity at the moment except relief activities," Mujahid told AFP. "We have launched massive relief work in Muzaffarabad, Rawlakot, Abbotabad, Balakot, Bagh and other areas," he added. "So far we have provided 1,500 tents ... We are trying to provide one tent for each family so the women can hide themselves," Mujahid said.(Posted @ 20:05 PST)


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India allows Azad Kashmir families to return via Wagah border Srinagar, Oct 12 (PPI): Indian government Wednesday allowed nearly 40 people who came to occupied Kashmir from Azad Kashmir by bus to return home by land route via Wagah border without visas.They had come here barely two days before the massive earthquake struck on October 8. Kshmireis who had gone to Muzaffarabad from occupied Jammu & Kashmir on October six would also be allowed to return via Wagha border .(Posted @ 19:10 PST)


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World Bank doubles aid to Pakistan ISLAMABAD, October 12 (PPI) The World Bank Wednesday doubled its support to the tune of 40 million dollars for earthquake victims in different parts of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, says a Press release.(Posted @ 19:10 PST)


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PM visits AJK quake affected areas MUZAFFARABAD, October 12 (PPI) Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Wednesday visited the quake affected areas in Azad Kashmir and inspected the rescue and relief activities. He was informed that one brigade of Pakistan Army was engaged in relief activities in Bagh and one each in Neelam and Jhelum valleys. He was told that the number of victims was increasing as new areas are reached. Mr. Shaukat Aziz said new areas are being opened up with the clearance of roads. Jhelum Valley will be opened up by tomorrow morning. This will be a major achievement of our engineers. After the opening of the valleys, the Government would provide transport to provide all kind of relief and bring sick and wounded to the hospitals. He said the number of troops the Government has moved for the assistance of the affected people is unprecedented. He also visited the field hospitals and reviewed the relief operations being carried out by the foreign teams. He appreciated their efforts in extremely challenging conditions.(Posted @ 19:05 PST)


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UN airlifts 12-metric tons food in quake affected areas ISLAMABAD, October 12 (PPI) The United Nations has started airlift of twelve metric tons of vitamin fortified food, medicine kits, tents, food items and water containers to cater the needs of about two hundred and forty thousand victims of the deadly earthquake in Muzaffarabad and Balakot areas. A spokesman said four helicopters will be added to supplement the airdrop of essential commodities on Wednesday.(Posted @ 19:00 PST)


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Army Welfare Trust donates Rs 100 mln for President Relief Fund RAWALPINDI, Oct 12 (APP): Army Welfare Trust (AWT) and its associated companies have donated a sum of Rs 100 million to President Relief Fund for the earthquake victims.(Posted @ 17:50 PST)


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Quake relief reaches some in Pakistan, many without BATA MORA, (NWFP, Pakistan}, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Food and other relief aid flowed into more areas of northern Pakistan on Wednesday as rescue operations in the devastating Kashmir earthquake increasingly became a relief mission for those who survived. But four days after the quake that local officials believe may have claimed as many as 40,000 lives, many of the worst affected had yet to see any aid. "Our resources are very stretched -- every time we rush to one place we hear of another place that is worse," said army Colonel Y.P. Sayyaj in the mountain town of Bata Mora in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. At the entrance to every small town and village driving up the mountain, entire populations waited in the hope of aid. At Bata Mora, about 250 km (155 miles) from Islamabad, a big crowd was waiting but no supplies had yet arrived. The arrival of the first aid in the town of Battagram, about 30 km from Bata Mora, on Tuesday, caused scuffles. Across the border, a villager in the Indian hamlet of Pingla Haridal told a Reuters team: "The world has forgotten we exist. You are the first people here asking about us besides some soldiers who pulled out bodies on the first day."(Posted @ 17:35 PST)


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Blair pledges 10 million pounds more to quake relief in South Asia LONDON, Oct 12 (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Wednesday pledged an additional 10 million pounds (17.4 million dollars, 14.5 million euros) in relief for the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan and neighboring countries. Blair told the parliament the new funds were on top of the two million pounds already pledged."The International Development secretary (Hilary Benn) will commit a further 10 million pounds today in response to the UN flash appeal and to support the wider relief effort," Blair said adding that "we will continue to respond as needs unfold."(Posted @ 16:55 PST)


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Pakistani PM visits disaster zone, pledges to work harder for victims MUZAFFARABAD, Azad Kashmir, Oct 12 (AFP) - Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said Wednesday relief operations in the wake of the monstrous earthquake would soon have to switch from rescue to "rehabilitation" as winter approached. Speaking to reporters on arrival here Aziz also said more must be done to help the victims. "At the moment we are in a relief and rescue phase. The third phase is rehabilitation... We have to think of the winter which is just around the corner," he said over the wailing of an infant at a relief centre here."So we are now working in a parallel track to provide people a place to stay where they can face winter, and this is ... all over the affected area." Aziz said a "human catastrophe" had befallen the nation, and praised the response of local and international emergency workers who have rushed to Pakistan. "If you see how the world has reacted, how our people have reacted, it is really a miracle. But we have to do more," he said. In the briefing by Major General Khalid Nawaz, coordinator of relief efforts, that 20,000-28,000 people could be dead in Muzaffarabad. In nearby Rawalakot and Bagh the toll could reach up to 12,000. "These are all 'guesstimates'. Whatever official figures we have given they are correct but we are opening up the Jhelum and Neelum valleys and there could be more," Aziz said. Most roads in the difficult mountain terrain have been reopened but dozens of villages remained completely cut off four days after the earthquake.(Posted @ 16:50 PST)


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Mercy flights increase but quake victims cry for more MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, Oct 12 (AFP) - Relief operations in earthquake-hit Azad Kashmir got into full gear Wednesday with the help of US and German helicopters, but hundreds of thousands of survivors were still desperate for help facing a fifth night out in the cold.Army spokesman Major Farooq Nasir said: "We are bringing in food, blankets, tents, and rescue teams. The weather has cleared so we're going full-ahead now with the relief operations." He said 95 helicopter relief flights had brought vital supplies to the worst-hit areas over the past 24 hours, including 12 in the first few hours of daylight on Wednesday. Trucks painted in the Pakistani style of bright colours and murals started streaming into Muzaffarabad by mid-morning, clogging the streets and sparking fighting that police subdued with clubs. The search for survivors was also continuing even as hopes faded that anyone could still be alive beneath the rubble."For now we are concentrating on search and rescue. We're coordinating with the Pakistani army as to when relief distribution will begin," said a spokesman for UN Disaster Assessment and Coordination here. Jan Vandemoortele, UN resident coordinator for Pakistan, admitted that some areas still had not seen a single relief worker due to the difficulty of accessing the mountainous terrain. "We are reaching further but still not to all the locations," the coordinator said. "We already have three field hospitals, one in Muzaffarabad, one in Mansehra and one in Bagh, that will be operational today. There were 10 hospitals in Muzaffarabad but all were destroyed ." A UN situation report on the international aid operation estimated that the about 1,000 hospitals were "completely destroyed" by the quake.(Posted @ 16:40 PST)


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Rain saves elderly man rescued from Muzaffarabad rubble MUZAFFARABAD, Azad Kashmir , Oct 12 (AFP) - Rain, which brought misery to victims of Pakistan's earthquake, saved the life of an elderly man rescued alive from the rubble after 80 hours, a rescuer said Wednesday. The man, in his 70s, survived by drinking rain water that seeped through into the debris of a three-storey building in which he was trapped, said a member of a British team that pulled him out late Tuesday in Muzaffarabad."He was very weak but otherwise ok. He said he had survived by drinking rainwater," said Stef Hopkins, leader of voluntary group Search and Rescue Assistance in Disasters.(Posted @ 16:25 PST)


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Rescuers race to aid quake survivors in occupied Kashmir SRINAGAR, occupied Kashmir, Oct 12 (AFP) - Indian troops Wednesday were fighting a race against time to deliver aid to thousands of earthquake survivors as rain and snow played havoc with the relief efforts in Kashmir region, officials said. An army spokesman, said six soldiers carrying relief aid were killed in a landslide in the district of Tangdhar.(Posted @ 16:15 PST)


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OPEC gives one million dollars to Asia quake victims DUBAI, Oct 12 (AFP) - The OPEC Fund for International Development will donate one million dollars to aid victims of the massive earthquake that struck Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, is chairman said Wednesday. Emirati Jamal Nasser Lutah said in a statement that 600,000 dollars will be allocated to Pakistan, 200,000 dollars to India and 200,000 dollars to Afghanistan through the Red Crescent organisations in each of the countries.(Posted @ 15:55 PST)


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Tony Blair pays tributes to rescue and relief efforts of Pakistan in quake-hit areas LONDON Oct 12(APP) British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday paid tribute to the rescue and relief efforts of the Government of Pakistan for mitigating the sufferings of the eartquake- stricken victims which struck the country on Saturday. He said during his monthly press conference today“later this afternoon there will be a flight from the East Midlands Airport carrying some 800 tents, 19,000 blankets destined for the relief effort in Muzzafarabad supplementing the 1,000 tents and 10,000 tarpaulins we are sending from our existing relief supplies in Pakistan." "The scale of this tragedy is becoming more apparent by the day”, Blair said adding that” latest official figures indicate between 18,000 to 30,000 deaths and over 44,000 injured with each figure expected to rise further.The United Nations are reporting that 4 million people have been affected by the earthquake, and 1-2 million of those severely," said Blair. (Posted @ 13:40 PST)


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MNAs start relief operation ISLAMABAD, Oct 12 (APP): Members of National Assembly have started relief operation and established a relief camp at the main reception of the Parliament House to collect donations for the earthquake victims. Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain has constituted a Committee to supervise and look after the collection and distribution of the relief fund. The members of the committee are Deputy Speaker Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob, Minister for Petroleum Amanullah Khan Jadoon, MNAs Maulana Abdul Malik, Naveed Qamar, Kashmala Tariq, Ghulam Murtaza Satti, Saad Rafiq, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, Shahjahan Yousaf , Ch. Rehman Naseer, Imran Khan, Gyan Singh, Kanwar Khalid Younis and Mrs. Yasmeen Rehman. The National Assembly Relief Fund has already been established for which MNAs have donated their one month salary. National Assembly relief fund Account No. is CD-1393-1 and it has been opened in the Allied Bank of Pakistan, Parliament House Branch, Islamabad. (Posted @ 12:10 PST)


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AGFUND donates $ 200,000 for earthquake victims ISLAMABAD, Oct 12 (APP): Prince Talal Bin Abdul Aziz, President Arab Gulf Program for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND) Wednesday announced that AGFUND will contribute dollars 200,000 to help the children and women in the countries hit by recent earthquake. This humanitarian aid includes dollars 150,000 to the relief efforts provided for the victims of the devastating quake in Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and dollars 50,000 to relieve the effects of the typhoons and torrential rains which hit Guatemala. (Posted @ 12:10 PST)


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Government committed to carry relief works in all areas :Sultan ISLAMABAD, Oct 12 (APP): Director General Inter Services Public Relations, Maj. General Shaukat Sultan has said that for first three days the focus of relief activities remained on urban areas but now the relief activists are approaching the remote villages both in AJK and NWFP. One brigade army has reached Balakot he said in a Ptv interview adding 40 children entrapped under the debris of a collapsed school building were rescued alive with the help of French Rescue team. One battalion of Pak. army has reached Garhi Habibullah and focus has now been shifted to remote villages where relief activities could not be conducted earlier, he said. He said food stuff and other necessary material is being dropped in Balakot through C-130 aircrafts also. To a question he said, emergency helipads would also be arranged in the areas where required. (Posted @ 12:05 PST)


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CAA exempts all flights bringing relief good from landing charges KARACHI, Oct 12 (APP)- Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority has announced exempting all flights bringing relief goods for earthquake hit areas, from landing charges. "Flights bringing humanitarian aid from donor countries/agencies are exempted from landing charges at all airports in Pakistan", a CAA announcement said Wednesday. (Posted @ 12:05 PST)


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Indonesia sends medical team, emergency supplies to Pakistan JAKARTA, Indonesia Oct 12 (APP/AP) _ Indonesia sent 12 tons of food, medical supplies, and other relief to Pakistan on Wednesday for victims of a devastating earthquake that killed more than 35,000 people. Arifin Badri, the head of Indonesia's relief mission, said a C-130 Hercules loaded with 50 military tents, 5,000 blankets, instant noodles, biscuits and medical supplies was heading to the quake-stricken region. (Posted @ 11:40 PST)


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US military to boost humanitarian aid to Pakistan MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., Oct 11 (Reuters) - The U.S. military is sharply increasing humanitarian aid to Pakistan after the worst earthquake in the country's history, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior officials said on Tuesday. Additional C-17 and C-130 cargo planes, two U.S. military engineer battalions and four big CH-47 and CH-53 helicopters were going to Pakistan, said a senior Bush-administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. As many as 36 additional U.S. helicopters were put on standby while eight helicopters were already in Pakistan. The United States was also using reconnaissance aircraft, including unmanned drones, to survey damage from the quake, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita said in Washington. Rear Admiral Michael Lefever heads a disaster-assistance center in Islamabad and is coordinating military relief efforts. Because Pakistan's airports are so busy after the quake, the United States was operating some of its aircraft out of Bagram air base in Afghanistan. (Posted @ 11:40 PST)


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Relief effort picks up for Kashmir quake survivors MUZAFFARABAD, Azad Kashmir, Oct 12 (Reuters) - Medicines andfood flowed into Azad Kashmir on Wednesday as rescue operations increasingly became a relief mission for those who survived. At daybreak, six huge trucks and three large vans belonging to Edhi Foundation arrived in worst-hit Muzaffarabad, but very little rescue work in the city of about 70,000 people, and no reports of rescuers finding any signs of life in the rubble. Rescue teams are still to reach many of the more remote mountainous areas hit by the quake. Relief is even further away. "Things are improving, but in the areas rescue teams have not yet been able to reach, hope basically is fading," said a senior U.N. official, who did not want to be identified. "Because of rain and the onset of cold weather, provision of shelter is our first priority. We are in short supply of blankets and plastic sheets," a senior military official involved in relief operations said on Wednesday. "We also badly need shrouds to bury the dead," he added. (Posted @ 10:50 PST)


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Hopes fade for hundreds of girls buried beneath Kashmiri school BAGH, Azad Kashmir, Oct 12 (AFP) - A Dutch team of 62 strong expert rescuers sifting through the debris of a collapsed school in Azad Kashmir's Bagh city has abandoned hope of finding any children alive five days after a devastating earthquake shook the region. The team equipped with sniffer dogs and life-detecting equipment arrived here Monday but so far it has only managed to pull five bodies from the rubble of Shaheen School where several hundred girls were present when the quake struck ."It is already more than 72 hours and chances of their survival are fading," Ed Kraszewski, spokesman for The Netherlands' Urban Search and Rescue mission, said. Generally, “almost 60 percent of the city is wrecked." All houses, buildings housing government offices, schools and colleges, police stations and courts have come down. Almost 50 percent of the population had fled. "The bodies are still there, waiting for burial. It is a very difficult situation," a local magistrate said. (Posted @ 10:30 PST)


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Spain airlifts aid to Pakistan, Central America MADRID, Oct 11 (AFP) - Spain on Tuesday airlifted some 60 tonnes of humanitarian aid in two transport planes, one bound for Pakistan's earthquake victims and the other headed for tropical storm-hit Guatemala and El Salvador, the foreign ministry said. Thirty tonnes of tents, bedding, sheeting and generators were on their way to Pakistan, for distribution at two field hospitals in the Bagh region. (Posted @ 10:35 PST)


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Three Japanese tourists still missing in Pakistan quake TOKYO, Oct 12 (AFP) - Three Japanese nationals are still missing after the giant earthquake in Pakistan, with two Japanese victims already confirmed dead, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda told a press conference.Two of the missing are males in their 20s. The other is a woman in her 40s. All three were travelling separately in the earthquake zone. Japanese aid worker Satoru Narahara, 36, and his two-year-old son were killed in the apartment block in Islamabad which collapsed in the quake. (Posted @ 10:05 PST)


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India delivers first quake relief to Pakistan NEW DELHI, Oct 12 (AFP) - An Indian cargo plane delivered relief supplies for earthquake victims in Pakistan on Wednesday morning, the air force said. An llyushin-76 flew seven truck loads of army medicines, 15,000 blankets and 50 tents to Pakistan and returned to New Delhi at 9:15 am (0345 GMT). (Posted @ 10:05 PST)


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Spilled spices and smell of death in market MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, Oct 12 (AFP) - The smell of spices competes with the smell of death in what is left of Medina bazaar, the once-bustling maze of alleyways that comprised Muzaffarabad's main market. On Tuesday, soldiers finally arrived to start moving bodies that lay scattered among its fallen bricks and jumbled wreckage. Their task was made more difficult by the reek of rotting meat still hanging in the ruins of butcheries and of decaying food lying on the floors of eating houses -- not to mention the buzzing swarms of flies attracted by the stench. Wearing gloves, face masks and grim expressions the soldiers, four per body, stumbled with their loads over mounds of bricks, broken scales, giant cooking pots and spilled bags of spices for which the market was renowned. Mostly the soldiers loaded the bodies onto charpoys, or small beds."This market was always busy -- it sold everything. Now it is finished," said 19-year-old student Daniel Shahaad. "In fact the whole city is finished. Will anyone ever rebuild it, or even want to rebuild it?" Soon after the operation to remove the bodies from the market began, the smitten city was lashed by a raging storm. Undeterred, the soldiers stuck to their task. (Posted @ 09:45 PST)


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Thailand sends aid for Pakistan quake survivors BANGKOK, Oct 12 (AFP) - Thailand has airlifted five million baht (122,000 dollars) worth of humanitarian aid for Pakistan's earthquake victims, and has 50 medical teams on standby if needed, senior officials said Wednesday. Thailand sent 30 family-size tents, 10,000 blankets and 1,000 boxes of medical supplies to Pakistan on a Thai C-130 cargo plane on Tuesday, the interior ministry said in a statement. (Posted @ 09:45 PST)


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Citizens, Community Based Organizations and NGOs wishing to contribute towards President's Relief Fund for Earthquake Victims are requested to send/deposit their donations in the above fun opened with the following:-

 
All Branches of The State Bank of Pakistan
All Treasuries
All Branches of National Bank of Pakistan
All Branches of Habib Hank of Pakistan
All Branches of United Bank of Pakistan
All Branches of Muslim Commercial Bank of Pakistan
All Branches of Allied Bank of Pakistan
All Branches of Bank Al Falah and
All other scheduled Banks within Pakistan


Donations, both from domestic and international donors can be deposited in the above branches of the Banks. Donations from abroad can be deposited at all the branches of above banks in foreign countries where such branches exist. In other foreign countries where these branches do not exist donations will be recevied by the Pakistan Missions and remitted to the State Bank of Pakistan.
All proceeds recevied in the name of the Fund will be credited to the public account of the Federal Government under following Head of Account:-

"G 12 Special Deposit Fund
G 121 - Relief Funds
G 12130 " President's Relief Fund for Earthquake Victims-2005"

Further information and details can be obtained from the following telephone and fax numbers:-
Phone No : 051-9208100, 051-9202528,
Fax No : 051-9207635


Important Emergency Numbers in Pakistan

Prime Minister House Earthquake Relief Cell: 051-9213891, 051-9222666.
President's Relief Fund for Earthquake Victims-2005: 051-9208100, 051-9202528, Fax: 051-9207635
Disaster Relief Cell, PM Secretariat: 051-920-6111
Crisis Managment Cell, Commander 111 Brigade, Rawalpindi: 051-926-7596
Foreign Office Emergency Coordination Centre Phone: 051-920-7663, Fax: 051-922-4205, 051-922-4206

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