Chill Starts Killing Folks: Pakistan needs Optimal help, Tents for Quake-hit Areas

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Catholic Relief Services
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Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
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Pontifical Mission Societies in the United States
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**Caritas Lahore **
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Caritas Lahore covers an area of 23,069 square kilometers and has a population of 500,903 Catholics. This diocese has the most densely populated towns, i.e. Lahore, Gujranwala, Sialkot, Sheikhupura and Kasur. Although it is not the most affected diocese, it is the largest Caritas operation in Pakistan and has most of its infrastructure left intact. Donations sent here will get to the affected areas.

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Mr. Raymond Rozario

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MUZAFFARABAD (AJK): With the advent of piercing frosty environs, as an upshot of winter in Quake-stricken areas of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, a number of people have started embracing death after massive destructions of their all types of assets, especially in the hilly terrains, which are inaccessible and are encircled by mighty peaks of the Himalayan locales, a report said on Saturday.

Despites all-out efforts by Pakistan in providing relief to the affected areas in the best possible and swift way, with enormous quantities of items of daily use, shelter remains the main obstacle because of the paucity of much-needed tents in the remote vicinities, which are facing new perils with the advent of every day, overtly posing risks to precious and lovely human lives.

Thus, the essential requirement of the Quake-hit people is the provision of maximum tents and that too, at-once, lest a large number of men, women and children in the far-flung areas take off for eternity, a scenario which seems imminent and virtually has already set in motion.

While the world at large has come-out with hefty commitments, the United Nations has specifically called for the despatch of requisite aid to the tremor-ravaged areas of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, with the provision of tents, as the foremost need of the distress humanity in this part of the world.
 
ISLAMABAD - As the magnitude 5.9 quake aftershocks jolted several parts of the country, mainly the Oct. 8 quake-hit areas, Sunday evening, the Meteorological Department said there is nothing to worry about and intensity of such jolts would continue to decrease.
The fresh earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on Richter scale with its epicenter at Hazara Division, rocked Islamabad, Muzaffarabad, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Peshawar, Ashtore, Bisham, Gilgit and other northern areas. These aftershocks also rattled Srinagar, the met office said.Several cities including Mansehra,Peshawar, Abbotabad were again hit by aftershocks at around 12.28 am (Monday).
Addressing a press conference, Director General Meteorological Department Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said that the aftershocks had decreased the chances of any severe earthquake in the near future.
“People should not pay attention to rumours about earthquake as there is no specific technology in the world to forecast date and time of earthquake,” the Met Department DG said.
He said that aftershocks might continue for two to three weeks but it would be on normal pattern as usually after the massive earthquake aftershocks occur.
He said that the aftershocks had been gradually reducing the chances of major earthquake in the same region.
Mentioning previous severe earthquake occurred in Muzaffarabad in 1555 AD, Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said that historical seismic record suggested that never in the seismic history of our area major earthquakes were followed by another earthquake of the same severity in the same region, he maintained.
He rejected the rumours that epicenters of the aftershocks had been shifting towards Islamabad, saying that most of the aftershocks emanated about 120-kilometre north of Islamabad.
The epicentre of Oct. 8 earthquake was about 100 kilometre from Islamabad, and it had in fact shifted further away from Islamabad.
He said that 897 aftershocks had been recorded since Oct. 8 morning, and 23 aftershocks were recorded during the last 24 hours. Their epicentres were located 30-40 km north-west of Muzaffarabad,” he said.
“Of the 896 aftershocks only one minor earthquake of magnitude 3.4 was close to Islamabad,” he said in response to a question.
This minor aftershock hardly justifies any panic because some aftershocks have been reported in the neighbouring India also, he concluded.
 
MUZAFFARABAD (AJK): With the advent of piercing frosty environs, as an upshot of winter in Quake-stricken areas of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, a number of people have started embracing death after massive destructions of their all types of assets, especially in the hilly terrains, which are inaccessible and are encircled by mighty peaks of the Himalayan locales, a report said on Saturday.

Despites all-out efforts by Pakistan in providing relief to the affected areas in the best possible and swift way, with enormous quantities of items of daily use, shelter remains the main obstacle because of the paucity of much-needed tents in the remote vicinities, which are facing new perils with the advent of every day, overtly posing risks to precious and lovely human lives.

Thus, the essential requirement of the Quake-hit people is the provision of maximum tents and that too, at-once, lest a large number of men, women and children in the far-flung areas take off for eternity, a scenario which seems imminent and virtually has already set in motion.

While the world at large has come-out with hefty commitments, the United Nations has specifically called for the despatch of requisite aid to the tremor-ravaged areas of Pakistan and Azad Kashmir, with the provision of tents, as the foremost need of the distress humanity in this part of the world.

(From JesusFootPrints)
 
I’m praying for the people there. Aftershocks are scary, especially after a big earthquake like this when people are already terrified, hurt and homeless.

Gearoidin
 
EU humanitarian aid commissioner Louis Michel said a “second humanitarian disaster looms” for millions of destitute survivors and more than 70,000 injured unless help arrives before winter.

“We are facing an enormous humanitarian catastrophe,” he said after the European Commission proposed an aid package worth 80 million euros (95 million dollars), 13.6 million euros more than it has already released.

“With winter just around the corner, a second humanitarian disaster looms for the four million people without a roof over their heads and the 70,000 injured people needing medical attention.”

Three heavy-lift helicopters from Britain and five tonnes of medicine from Afghanistan reached the capital Islamabad but experts said much more was needed before winter snows hit the mountainous disaster zone in three weeks.

The UN’s humanitarian office (OCHA) said relief efforts were likely to be disrupted by bad weather in the next few days, grounding helicopters which are the only life-line to remote villages in the rugged Kashmiri mountains.

“There is a three-week window of opportunity to deliver assistance to mountainous areas before the first snowfall,” OCHA said in a report.

“According to reports from the authorities, severe weather, with heavy rain, is forecast to hit the area in the next three to four days.”

UNICEF relief spokesman Michael Bociurkiw said children were likely to suffer most if help did not arrive before winter.
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ISLAMABAD - As the magnitude 5.9 quake aftershocks jolted several parts of the country, mainly the Oct. 8 quake-hit areas, Sunday evening, the Meteorological Department said there is nothing to worry about and intensity of such jolts would continue to decrease.
The fresh earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on Richter scale with its epicenter at Hazara Division, rocked Islamabad, Muzaffarabad, Abbottabad, Mansehra, Peshawar, Ashtore, Bisham, Gilgit and other northern areas. These aftershocks also rattled Srinagar, the met office said.Several cities including Mansehra,Peshawar, Abbotabad were again hit by aftershocks at around 12.28 am (Monday).
Addressing a press conference, Director General Meteorological Department Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said that the aftershocks had decreased the chances of any severe earthquake in the near future.
“People should not pay attention to rumours about earthquake as there is no specific technology in the world to forecast date and time of earthquake,” the Met Department DG said.
He said that aftershocks might continue for two to three weeks but it would be on normal pattern as usually after the massive earthquake aftershocks occur.
He said that the aftershocks had been gradually reducing the chances of major earthquake in the same region.
Mentioning previous severe earthquake occurred in Muzaffarabad in 1555 AD, Qamar Zaman Chaudhry said that historical seismic record suggested that never in the seismic history of our area major earthquakes were followed by another earthquake of the same severity in the same region, he maintained.
He rejected the rumours that epicenters of the aftershocks had been shifting towards Islamabad, saying that most of the aftershocks emanated about 120-kilometre north of Islamabad.
The epicentre of Oct. 8 earthquake was about 100 kilometre from Islamabad, and it had in fact shifted further away from Islamabad.
He said that 897 aftershocks had been recorded since Oct. 8 morning, and 23 aftershocks were recorded during the last 24 hours. Their epicentres were located 30-40 km north-west of Muzaffarabad,” he said.
“Of the 896 aftershocks only one minor earthquake of magnitude 3.4 was close to Islamabad,” he said in response to a question.
This minor aftershock hardly justifies any panic because some aftershocks have been reported in the neighbouring India also, he concluded.
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