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| December 5, 2005 | Monday | Ziqa’ad 2, 1426 |
Aga Khan assures sustained support in rehabilitation, reconstruction Muzaffarabad Dec 05 (PPI)Leader of Islamaelia Community, Prince Karim Aga Khan has assured that Aga Khan Foundation would continue to extend all out assistance for rehabilitation and reconstruction of the quake-hit areas of Azad Kashmir. Addressing quake affectees at Thoori tentage village on Monday. He said all possible measures would be taken for rebuilding and reconstruction of the devastated areas in an improved manner to meet any future problem of seismic activities.(Posted @ 22:46 PST)
Government has prepared a comprehensive reconstruction plan: PM MANSEHRA, Dec 5 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz on Monday said the government had prepared a comprehensive plan to provide help and assistance in the quake-affected areas of NWFP and Azad Kashmir. Addressing the affected people here during his visit to Bakarial Tent Village, 20 km from Mansehra, Aziz assured the victims that the government would provide them best possible facilities to revive their normal life. He said apart from the construction of shelters, the government would also providing a school, dispensary and other basic needs of life including clean drinking water and toilet facilities to the people living in these tent villages.(Posted @ 15:28 PST)
Pakistan quake children vaccinated after measles outbreak ISLAMABAD, Dec 5 (AFP) - Aid workers were immunising children in earthquake-ravaged Pakistan Monday after a number of measles cases were detected at a survivors' camp, officials said. Tamur Mueenuddin, a UNICEF health officer in Muzaffarabad, said a number of people who had moved into the camp in Hattian Bala, near Muzaffarabad, after descending from higher mountain villages had missed a vaccination drive launched shortly after the October 8 disaster. "Now we are having a mop-up immunisation campaign for people who were not immunised for some reason." Responding to reports that a child with measles had died on Thursday in the camp, he said: "It is not clear that the death was related to measles." UN officials have repeatedly warned that the threat of a second wave of deaths from disease and cold among quake survivors in northern Pakistan is becoming more acute every day. This is also because poorly nourished families are continuing to arrive in relief camps, fleeing the oncoming winter and leaving behind villages damaged by the 7.6 magnitude earthquake. The United Nations has launched a flash appeal for 550 million dollars in emergency aid but says it has got only 41 percent of the funding after two months. (Posted @ 12:15 PST)
Hardy Pakistan quake survivors wait in vain for tents, food CHALIANA, Pakistan, Dec 5 (AFP) - People of Neelum Valley are known as a hardy lot, but even they are at a breaking point two months after the quake as Himalayan winter takes its toll. Some say they have enough food but do not have tents; others have shelter but lack nourishment; and many are desperately in need of both. The United Nations warned last week that aid efforts were on a "knife edge" as ninety percent of the hundreds of thousands of tents handed out are unsuitable for winter. Relief workers and NGOs are racing against time to help survivors build their own shelter. In the Neelum Valley, Armymen struggle to keep the erratic flow of road supplies to tens of thousands of survivors in the highlands along the LoC. Helicopters including heavy-lift US Chinooks have been bringing supplies daily but the number of affected people exceeds the supply. Dozens were seen lined up at a few handout outlets set up by the army and the WFP alongside the Neelum Road for a two-week ration for a family that includes 25 kilograms of wheat flour (55 pounds), five kilograms of pulses, five kilograms of cooking oil, one packet of sugar and salt. "This is not enough, and then some people get more than the others ," said 51-year-old school teacher Mohammad Yaqub at the WFP's outlet in the village of Patikka. But the authorities are pessimistic about their chances of getting through the winter. "Only three weeks separate the survivors from the usual snowfall and when it happens it will not only close the road but also minimise their chances of survival in the below-freezing temperatures," a local official at Chaliana said. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
PM appreciates role of NGOs in quake- hit areas ISLAMABAD, Dec 5 (APP): Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Sunday appreciated the role of civil society and the NGOs which played a very important and affective role in the quake devastated areas of NWFP and Azad Kashmir. Talking to a delegation of International Rotary Club led by its president William B. Boyed he said local and international NGOs provided prompt relief to the people in the quake affected areas and reached the most difficult areas using their own means and resources. Boyed said that Rotary Club donated 5 million dollars and sent medical teams. (Posted @ 09:32 PST)
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