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Quake victims airlifting banned to other cities, abroad
Staff Report

ISLAMABAD — Federal Relief Commissioner Maj Gen Farooq Ahmed Khan has said that government besides imposing a ban on shifting and airlifting of October 8 earthquake injured to the hospitals in other cities and >>> >
 

Proposal to open LoC at 5 points given to India: PM
Delhi says LoC can’t be opened for ‘anybody & everybody
By Uzma Zafar

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan has handed over specific proposals to India for allowing Kashmiris living on both sides of the Line of Control (LoC) to help each other in relief and reconstruction efforts, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Saturday said. “We have identified five points for two-way movement of Kashmiris across the LoC,” he told reporters here. President General Pervez Musharraf had made the >> >>


 

UN blasts donors’ for poor response
World failed to imagine intensity of quake disaster - Money can’t buy time: Vandermoortele
By Zulfiqar Ahmad

ISLAMABAD—Disappointed by the slow international aid response to Pakistan’s recent earthquake, the UN Saturday urged the world community to come up with a matching response to the scale of disaster that has so far killed over 51,000 people. “Immensity and magnitude of the disaster is still becoming clear and the task of providing relief to the affected people is colossal,”   >> >>

 

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