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| November 9, 2005 | Wednesday | Shawwal 6, 1426 |
50 reconstruction teams to leave for AJK,NWFP LAHORE, Nov 9 (APP): The private construction companies working at housing schemes of Lahore have formed 50 teams of volunteers having 10 skilled persons in each of them to work for reconstruction of the damaged houses in the earth-quake affected areas of Azad Kashmir and NWFP. This was stated at a meeting held at Governor House here on Wednesday while Governor Punjab Lt. Gen. (r) Khalid Maqbool chaired it. Each of the team would be consisting of 2 masons, 2 carpenters, 2 steel fixers, 2 helpers, one electrician and one supervisor and the Governor would see them off at Fortress Stadium here on November 12 at 3.00 p.m. The teams would leave for Muzaffarabad, Bagh, Rawala Kot and Mansehra and would work with the field units of Army Camps there. The re-construction teams would help those people who want to re-build one or 2-shelters for protection of themselves or their house-hold items to avoid losses during the coming snow-season.(Posted @ 23:10 PST)
Turkey taking active part in relief operation KARACHI, Nov 9 (APP): Turkey has sent 15 military and 3 civilian aircraft containing search and rescue (SAR) equipment, medical, Red Crescent personnel and humanitarian aid for the earthquake affected people of Pakistan. Soon after the earthquake, Turkish official search and rescue teams as well as NGOs reached Muzaffarabad and started their rescue operation. Natural Disaster Search and Rescue Teams from the Turkish Armed Forces' Special Forces Command, Civil Defence General Directorate, GEA Search and Rescue Association, AKUT and LIDAM comprising 70 persons continued their activities in Muzaffarabad and rescued 9 lives from the rubbles. Turkish medical team has established one field hospital for 50 persons and so far vaccinated around 30,000 people as well as provided first aid to 5000 people.(Posted @ 19:15 PST)
PIA lifts 1467 tons relief goods KARACHI, Nov 9 (APP): Continuing with its earthquake relief operation PIA has, exactly one month since the disaster hit Azad Kashmir, Northern Areas and NWFP, lifted 1467 tons of relief supplies from its domestic and international network. PIA carried 517 tons on its international scheduled flights and 436 tons on international charter flights on the global network. The airline transporterd 400 tons on its domestic scheduled flights besides 114 tons of relief supplies which were on international transit and were lifted from Karachi on Domestic Charter Flights raising the total tonnage lifted to 1467 tons. It is estimated that once the total relief supplies are transported by PIA, the total tonnage carried will be around 4000 tons.(Posted @ 17:35 PST)
Possible cholera in Pakistan quake camps, WHO says MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan, Nov 9 (AFP) - Hundreds of earthquake victims in Pakistani Kashmir have acute diarrhoea and doctors are investigating whether they are cases of cholera, the UN World Health Organisation said Wednesday. Aid workers are urgently trying to improve water supplies and sanitation at the cramped refugee camps where the survivors fell sick in the devastated regional capital Muzaffarabad, WHO technical officer Rachel Lavy told AFP. (Posted @ 13:10 PST)
India, Pakistan open second Kashmir crossing ON THE LINE OF CONTROL, Nov 9 (AFP) - Pakistan and India Wednesday opened a second point in Kashmir for earthquake relief, two days after a first crossing let aid supplies but not people cross the militarised divide. Army commanders and government officials from the two sides met at the Line of Control (LoC), the de facto border that has divided the Himalayan region since the late 1940s, and shook hands before declaring the crossing point open. (Posted @ 12:45 PST)
Australia to send medical team to Pakistan earthquake zone CANBERRA, Australia Nov 9 (APP/AP) _ Australia will this week send a 140-member medical team to earthquake-devastated Kashmir as the approaching winter worsens a humanitarian crisis, Australia's prime minister announced Wednesday. Australia's first contribution of personnel in response to the Oct. 8 catastrophe will cost up to 20 million Australian dollars (US$14.7 million) and more than double Canberra's pledge of mergency relief, Prime Minister John Howard said. "Recent urgent calls ... by the Pakistan government, international relief agencies and the United Nations have been made to provide to further assistance in view of the onset of harsh winter conditions and a worsening humanitarian crisis," Howard told parliament. (Posted @ 11:50 PST)
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