Posted on 09/01/2025 11:16:53 AM PDT by DFG
One of Afghanistan's worst earthquakes killed more than 800 people and injured at least 2,800, authorities said on Monday, as rescuers struggled to reach remote areas due to rough mountainous terrain and inclement weather.
The disaster will further stretch the resources of the war-torn nation's Taliban administration, already grappling with crises ranging from a sharp drop in foreign aid to deportations of hundreds of thousands of Afghans by neighbouring countries.
Sharafat Zaman, spokesperson for the health ministry in Kabul, called for international aid to tackle the devastation wrought by the quake of magnitude 6 that struck around midnight local time, at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).
"We need it because here lots of people lost their lives and houses," he told Reuters.
The quake killed 812 people in the eastern provinces of Kunar and Nangarhar, administration spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said.
Ziaul Haq Mohammadi, a student at Al-Falah University in the eastern city of Jalalabad, was studying in his room at home when the quake struck. He said he tried to stand up but was knocked over by the power of the tremor.
"We spent the whole night in fear and anxiety because at any moment another earthquake could happen," Mohammadi said.
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Do they/did they start a ‘go-f-me’ account? Would they take donations from womxn?
Send SPAM
Send napalm
We gave them twenty years of help.
We’re done.
Nope
You burned your bridge to humanity
Just use some of the 8 billion dollars worth of American military gear you seized to help them.
CC
Sell some used Humvees on Craigslist.
We probably will help. If so we should demand all the weapon systems left by Biden be returned to us as payment.
Remember how the Taliban refused to give up Osama bin laden?
They deserve all the punishment from hell that Satan can unleash.
Why don’t they ask Allah?
Military equipment back and maybe we will send some expired pork MRE’s😎
Are we still sending millions daily to the Taliban?
Allah’s will
Good point
Inch a La.....
Sure. Give them all the help they need, as long as the Taliban agrees to dissolve and give up all their weapons and ordnance FIRST.
‘End is near’: Will Kabul become first big city without water by 2030? Al Jazeera, 5 July 2025.
There are millions of Afghan men in Europe, Australia, and the US who aren’t doing much and definitely can help. Let’s round them up and send them there. If someone who’s a Muslim from that part of the world or Africa, it’s okay he can go too. Afghanistan needs all the help it can get!
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