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Relief ‘vastly underfunded’: 210,000 more tents needed: UN
GENEVA, Oct 27: Key emergency aid operations for Pakistani earthquake survivors are still vastly underfunded a day after donor nations promised about half a billion dollars more in overall assistance, UN data indicated on Thursday....
Musharraf orders release of Rs2bn: Rehabilitation authority meets
RAWALPINDI, Oct 27: President General Pervez Musharraf on Thursday ordered immediate release of Rs2 billion for reconstruction of houses in the quake-hit NWFP and Azad Kashmir and asked the authorities concerned...
Budget may be trimmed for reconstruction fund
ISLAMABAD, Oct 27: Pakistan will have to initially raise minimum Rs300 billion for rebuilding of earthquake-hit areas following a ‘poor response’ at the Geneva conference where donors pledged only $580 million against a requirement of $5 billion....
Evacuation orders awaited in Alai
PESHAWAR, Oct 27: Authorities in Battagram said on Thursday they were still awaiting orders from the NWFP government to evacuate an estimated 100,000 people as a second team of geologists reached...
Delhi offers $25 million for quake victims
NEW DELHI, Oct 27: India said on Thursday it had offered an assistance of $25 million to Pakistan for relief and rehabilitation of earthquake victims. An Indian foreign ministry spokesman said...
Bush announces private-sector drive for aid
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: US President George W. Bush said on Thursday that executives from some of the world’s best-known firms would spearhead efforts to raise private-sector aid for victims of the massive earthquake in Pakistan....
President to extend APC invitation
LAHORE, Oct 27: Invitations for the proposed All-Party Conference (APC) on the post-quake situation will be issued personally by President Pervez Musharraf, a main leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League said on Thursday....
US lawmakers question N-deal with India
WASHINGTON, Oct 27: US lawmakers have chastised the Bush administration for providing little information about a proposal to share civilian nuclear technology with India, while experts warned that the deal was against America’s national interests....
Nato presence worries India
NEW DELHI, Oct 27: Leading regional and international strategists began a two-day discussion here on Thursday over the growing presence of Nato in Asia amid warnings by Indian experts that the...
Nato’s mobile HQ becomes operational
ISLAMABAD, Oct 27: A mobile headquarters of the Nato force sent to assist the relief work became ‘fully operational’ on Thursday. Vice Admiral John Stufflebeem, commander of the mission, said on...
Tetanus has claimed 22 lives, says WHO
ISLAMABAD, Oct 27: Twenty-two quake victims have died from tetanus and one person has died from measles since the earthquake disaster struck Pakistan on Oct 8, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday....
‘2,000 firms involved in oil-for-food scandal’
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 27: Nearly half of the 4,500 companies involved in the UN oil-for-food programme paid some $1.8 billion in illegal surcharges and kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s government, according to...
Azad named CM of held Kashmir
New Delhi, Oct 27: Senior Indian minister Ghulam Nabi Azad, named on Thursday as the next chief minister of Jammu and Kashmir, said he wanted the peace process with Pakistan to intensify....
Four killed in Kashmir
SRINAGAR, Oct 27: Two Indian troops and two freedom fighters were killed in separate clashes in occupied Kashmir on Thursday, the anniversary of the day Indian forces arrived in the Muslim-majority region in 1947, police said....
German goes on trial for helping Kahuta plant
MUNICH, Oct 27: A German businessman went on trial in Germany on Thursday accused of illegally supplying Pakistan with equipment to build nuclear weapons. Rainer V.,...
Nawaz’s son hospitalized in Jeddah
LAHORE, Oct 27: Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif’s younger son Hasan has been admitted to a Jeddah hospital where his condition is very serious. Mr Sharif’s spokesman Farrukh Shah said on...
19 die in Iraqi sectarian clash
BAGHDAD, Oct 27: Nineteen people, including 17 Shia militiamen, died on Thursday in clashes near Baghdad with guerillas fighting the occupation forces. The clashes came as Sunni and Shia political groups...
Indian team arrives today for LoC talks
ISLAMABAD, Oct 27: A six-member Indian delegation headed by Joint Secretary of the Ministry of External Affairs Dilip Sinha is scheduled to arrive here on Friday evening for talks on allowing cross-LoC movement....
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GENEVA, Oct 27: Key emergency aid operations for Pakistani earthquake survivors are still vastly underfunded a day after donor nations promised about half a billion dollars more in overall assistance, UN data indicated on Thursday....
