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 PM stresses rescue in remote areas
Bureau Report

MUZAFFARABAD — Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Wednesday visited the quake devastated AJK capital to see the pace of relief work, and directed the rescue teams to rush to the inaccessible areas without any delay. “Relief measures are improving, more areas are opening up, but >> >>
 

 Chinese firm donates $900,000 to quake victims
 

President spurs nation to rise to occasion
Declares Friday as Yaum-e-Dua - Says disaster beyond Govt’s capability; impediments removed in relief goods distribution - Thankful to World leaders for providing assistance - Praises Opposition, political parties for joining hands in rescue efforts
DM Monitoring

ISLAMABAD—Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has appealed to the nation to offer special prayers on Friday for the families afflicted by the worst earthquake in the country’s history that left 23,000 people dead. “I pray for all those who lost their lives in this tragedy. This is the blessed month of Ramazan,” President said in a nationwide broadcast Wednesday evening. “I therefore appeal to the  >> >>


 

NSC devises strategy to pace up
relief efforts
Allocates Rs2bn to AJK, 1bn to NWFP
By Makhdoom Babar

ISLAMABAD—An extra-ordinary meeting of the National Security Council with a single-point agenda Wednesday assessed the scale of devastation and reviewed the relief efforts in the aftermath of last Saturday’s deadly earthquake, with the Government directing immediate release of Rs two billion for Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Rs one billion for NWFP as interim relief measure >> >>

• SC to hear housing scheme case today
• Margala Towers Islamabad Residents' Society meets
• Import of blankets exempted from duty
• PTCL employees donate Rs 30m for quake affectees
• WEF, ITU move in to help restore telecom links in disaster-hit zone, says Awais
• Diplomats briefed on disaster, relief measures, requirements
• Japan extends $20m grant for quake affectees
• CDA to amend building bylaws to cope with seismic risk

• Angelina Jolie receives humanitarian award
• Oprah rewards women who helped nab fugitive
• Beyonce quashes marriage rumour in Vanity Fair
• Charlize Theron rules out wedding bells
• Pam Anderson on China anti-fur ads

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