Keyword: quakerelief
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Scandinavian humanitarian organizations are pulling the plug on aid to victims of last year's devastating tsunami and earthquake disasters, saying the safety of their relief workers has been jeopardized by Muslim rioters protesting cartoons depicting Mohammed. The Red Cross, Norwegian Peoples Aid, Norwegian Church Aid and the Norwegian Refugee Council announced Thursday that they will be suspending aid projects in Indonesia and Pakistan, reports the Norwegian Broadcasting network [NRK]. Danish aid organizations have also announced they are halting relief operations in some Muslim nations. "It is tragic that this has come in the way, but we must first and foremost...
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Red Cross Helicopter Missing; 7 on Board By ROSHAN MUGHAL, By The Associated Press 18 minutes ago MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan - A helicopter used by the Red Cross for earthquake relief operations in Pakistan has gone missing with seven crew members on board, an official said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT The helicopter lost contact with the air control tower after leaving the northwestern city of Peshawar on Saturday, Red Cross quake relief chief Andre Paquet said. The helicopter had been chartered by Turkmenistan to the International Committee of the Red Cross for relief work in the quake zone for the past three months....
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In the first poll in Pakistan since the earthquake of October 8, 2005, Pakistanis now hold a more favorable opinion of the United States than at any time since 9/11, while support for Al Qaeda in its home base has dropped to its lowest level since then. The direct cause for this dramatic shift in Muslim opinion is clear: American humanitarian assistance for Pakistani earthquake victims. The second largest and only Muslim nation with nuclear weapons, Pakistan has long been a stronghold for Islamist radicals, and is the likely base for Bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders planning further...
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December 08, 2005 Pakistanis wary of Army's next job Quake reconstruction effort will be headed by generals, but Army denies claims it will dominate the process. By David Montero | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Winter is descending on the highlands of northern Pakistan, delaying the transition from earthquake relief operations to the longer-range efforts of rebuilding. But in Islamabad, the early outlines of the reconstruction are being sketched out, and there are fears that the military will dominate the process. Two agencies have been put in charge of the effort, each headed by a general....
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, DEC. 2, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Christians are being expelled from their homes in Pakistan to make room for victims of the earthquake that hit Kashmir and the northwestern region of the country in early October. Reports from Catholic leaders spearheading the relief work following the earthquake say that hundreds or even thousands of people near Joharabad, close to Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, are being made homeless, with no prospect of alternative accommodation being found. In an interview with Aid to the Church in Need, Bishop Anthony Lobo of Islamabad-Rawalpindi said he feared that the incident of forced ejections he had uncovered...
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Sgt. Kornelia Rachwal, 12th Aviation Brigade, comforts a Pakistani earthquake victim being evacuated from Muzaffarabad aboard a CH-47 Chinhook. By Tech. Sgt. Mike Buytas, October 21, 2005Pakistanis watch as U.S. Soldiers unload earthquake relief supplies from their CH-47 Chinook helicopter, near Panjkot, Pakistan. By Tech. Sgt. Mike Buytas, October 31, 20051st Lt. Tory Marcon, from the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, helps Riaz Sharif drink a special food for tetanus patients with muscle spasms. The Soldiers are providing medical care for earthquake victims. By Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric S. Powell, November 9, 2005.2nd Lt. Jeanette Johnson,...
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MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan chided the international community Friday for a "weak and tardy" response to the South Asia quake that killed more than 87,000 people. Annan said on the eve of a key donors conference that only 30 percent of the money pledged for quake relief had been donated so far. He said that paled in comparison to donations after the Dec. 26 earthquake and tsunami that devastated 11 nations on the Indian Ocean. "I think there is no doubt that donors' response has been weak and tardy," Annan said. "When the tsunami struck at the...
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The Justice and Peace Commission accuses the police of “criminal negligence” because they did not intervene, and also criticizes ministers and politicians for not scrapping the blasphemy law. Lahore (AsiaNews) – Three churches, a nuns‘ convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and of a parish priest, a girls’ hostel, some Christian homes, were first vandalized and then set on fire by an angry crowd of around 2,000 people in the village of Sangla Hill, Nankana district in Punjab. At least 450 Christian families fled from the village and they have not yet returned for fear of...
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A US Army CH-47 Chinook helicopter taking part in earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan apparently came under fire while delivering aid, the US military said yesterday. US Central Command said the helicopter was not hit and returned safely with its crew to Chaklala air base. The US military said the aircraft "is believed to have been fired upon by a rocket-propelled grenade," but did not identify who fired the weapon.
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Assailants fired at a U.S. military helicopter Tuesday as it ferried supplies to earthquake victims in Pakistan's portion of divided Kashmir, the U.S. military said, but it vowed to continue aid flights. The attack with an apparent rocket-propelled grenade came as the CH-47 Chinook flew over Chakothi, a quake-ravaged town near the frontier separating the Pakistani and Indian portions of the Himalayan region, said Capt. Rob Newell, a spokesman for the U.S. military relief effort. "The aircraft was not hit and returned safely with its crew" to an air base near the capital, Islamabad, he told The Associated Press. The...
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LONDON: Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf has defended his handling of the October 8 earthquake and his refusal to permit Indian helicopters to fly relief sorties in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. “The world should understand that we cannot allow Indian soldiers to operate in Kashmir. Our whole defence system is there, our whole military is there,” he said in an interview with the British daily Financial Times. He admitted that Islamist groups on the “watch-list” — such as Jamaat-ul-Dawa and Al Rasheed Trust — were providing relief in difficult areas of Pakistani Kashmir, and said his government “must beat them to it”. Islamist...
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By ZARAR KHAN Friday, October 28, 2005 Posted at 6:29 AM EDT Associated Press Muzaffarabad, Pakistan — The United Nations warned on Friday that it will run out of money and be forced to ground helicopters delivering desperately needed relief supplies to quake-hit northern Pakistan unless donors come through with the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to see 2.3 million hungry people through the winter. Jan Vandemoortele, UN humanitarian co-ordinator in Pakistan, also urged archrivals India and Pakistan to open the disputed Kashmir border, saying this would help the relief effort -- if not solve logistical challenges posed by...
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Americans have spread free matchbooks and pamphlets in Pakistan offering vast sums of money to get information about Osama bin Laden and his cohorts. Nothing has worked. But dropping food, tents, and a helping hand in the aftermath of the Oct. 8 earthquake is buying the US some newfound goodwill here that some hope may eventually yield important leads in the war on terror. The area worst hit by the quake also happens to be the epicenter of Pakistan's extremist community, a place dotted with camps training jihadis to fight in Indian Kashmir. Al Qaeda has used this militant infrastructure...
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Al-Qaida’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri urged Muslims to help Pakistan’s earthquake victims despite the country’s close ties to the United States. He was speaking in a video aired on Al Jazeera television on Sunday in which he sat next to an assault rifle. “I call on all Muslims and Islamic charity organizations in particular to go to Pakistan and give a lending hand to the victims there,” Zawahri said on the tape. "We all know that (President Pervez) Musharraf's government is an agent of the United States but despite that I call on all Muslims to run to the...
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Al-Qaida’s second in command Ayman al-Zawahri urged Muslims to help Pakistan’s earthquake victims despite the country’s close ties to the United States. He was speaking in a video aired on Al Jazeera television on Sunday in which he sat next to an assault rifle. “I call on all Muslims and Islamic charity organizations in particular to go to Pakistan and give a lending hand to the victims there,” Zawahri said on the tape. "We all know that (President Pervez) Musharraf's government is an agent of the United States but despite that I call on all Muslims to run to the...
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Campaigners in Scotland have turned to spicy Indian curry and lilting music to raise funds for rehabilitating earthquake victims in South Asia. Posters have gone up across Edinburgh inviting people to 14 Indian restaurants participating in the Asia Quake Appeal. In the restaurants, diners will be given a leaflet about the struggle to save lives and rebuild communities in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. They will be invited to make a donation that will go to the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC). Said Judith Robertson, chairperson of the DEC in Scotland: "We urge people in Scotland to have a curry this weekend...
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New York, October 22: Claiming that lack of coordination between Army and civilian authorities was hampering relief efforts in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, a US-based human rights watchdog has accused Pakistani military officials of putting scarce tents and other relief supplies in storage, rather than handing them out to the needy. Human Rights Watch, whose representatives are monitoring relief efforts in Pakistan, claimed that officials in-charge of dispersing relief supplies, which had been designated for government workers in Muzaffarabad, had told that tents and other emergency supplies were being stored instead of being distributed. Officials at the site were quoted, as saying...
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CHAKLALA AIR BASE, Pakistan -- High in a remote valley, the U.S. Army transport helicopter settled Thursday with a bump on the dry riverbed, and the earthquake survivors came running. Jostling and shoving for space, they crowded around the rear cargo hatch as the soldiers on board began tossing out tents, blankets and biscuits until they had no more to give. As the helicopter revved its engines for takeoff, a balding man with a beard leaned across the edge of the lowered cargo ramp and, smiling his gratitude, extended his hand toward Brandon Chasteen, a 21-year-old Army medic from Chattanooga,...
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The United Nations attacked international donors today for a shortfall in funding for victims of the South Asian earthquake that has left relief agencies struggling with a logistical nightmare worse than the Boxing Day tsunami. As a 12-year-old boy was confirmed as the first British fatality from the quake, Jan Egeland, the UN's disaster relief chief, gave warning that the death toll in the earthquake could rise above 100,000 because of a lack of aid. Mr Egeland told a news conference in Geneva: "We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare, ever. We thought the tsunami was bad -...
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