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Quake caused damage worth $5b: Premier
Says death toll exceeds 38,000 - Hails Opp
support - Receives $500m aid pledges
By Our Special Correspondent
ISLAMABAD—Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz said Saturday, the
initial estimates indicate that Pakistan
will require at least $ 5 billion for the
reconstruction and rehabilitation work in
AJK and NWFP areas devastated by the October
8 strong earthquake. “The death toll has
crossed 38,000 with over 62,000 injured and
these figures may rise”, Shaukat Aziz told
foreign media while giving them the details
of recent earthquake and relief and rescue
measures taken so far here >> >>
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President stresses fast track rehabilitation
drive
Says 500,000 affectees to be sheltered in
tent-city - Body set up to initiate
re-building of quake-hit areas
By Makhdoom Babar
ISLAMABAD—President General Pervez Musharraf
Saturday said a tent city is being put into
place near Muzaffarabad to provide shelter
to 500,000 people rendered homeless
following last week’s devastating
earthquake. The Government is setting up the
tent city with the support of United
Nations, he said in comprehensive
interaction with a group of media persons,
who covered the catastrophe in Azad Kashmir
and NWFP. The President said the interaction
would >> >>
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