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Massive floods across Pakistan | Thousands Killed

PEOPLE are not as enthusiastic as they were in 2005!!!! sad state of affairs this time round from our nation!! zameer maar gaya hai pakistanioun kaa! :hitwall::cry:

2005 economy was a lot better than what we have now + WOT wasnt as intense like it is + Global recession + inflation crises upon crises hain sir g!
 
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PAF continues relief operation in flood affected areas

ISLAMABAD, August 09 (APP): As part of its ongoing relief operation in flood-hit areas, C-130 planes and choppers of Pakistan Air Force (PAF) have airlifted relief goods comprising dairy foods, clean drinking water, tents and other items of daily use to stranded people in Multan, Dera Ghazi Khan, Mianwali and Sukkur which included 900 Kg ration from Air Headquarters Peshawar during last 24 hours.

Besides establishing a relief camp at PAF Academy Risalpur, where 1200 flood affectees are already provided food and medical facilities PAF has also established a similarly relief camp in Govt. High School Risalpur sheltering 2500 afectees.

PAF Base Mianwali has initiated sending medical teams, comprising paramedical staff and ambulances to Mari Indus, Mauch, Rustam Wala and Kala Bagh to provide medical assistance to the respective affectees. Alongside PAF planes and helicopters are engaged distributing food, water and medical items to same areas. Mianwali Base has also sent relief goods to Rokhari, Daoodkhel and Much in 7 trucks, for 700 affected families.

From PAF Bases, Chaklala and Faisal, C-130 aircraft are transporting boats, tents, ready-to-eat food, electric generators, blankets and medicines to flood affected areas of Sukkur, Multan, DG Khan, Peshawar and Mianwali. PAF has also established relief camp at PAF Museum, Karachi to receive donations and house hold items, in which general public is donating generously. The donated items are being transported to flood affected areas through PAF C-130 aircraft.

From PAF Base Peshawar, four helicopters are airlifting relief goods to flood affected areas of Mingora, Pabbi, Charsadda, Nowshera and Mohibanda. Besides this, relief goods received from brotherly countries are also being dispatched through PAF C-130 aircraft to flood affected areas. PAF helicopters are also engaged in rescue operation of stranded people in Swat valley.
 
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What nonsense, here is the official word from the UN:
No nonsense, the U.N. was quoted in the article, too. Don't you get it? The scale of this disaster is so great that all that aid is a mere drop in the bucket of what is needed. We're talking about millions of people, therefore tens of thousands of TONS of material aid is necessary! (If four million people need just ten pounds of aid each, that's twenty thousand tons.) So why should one be surprised that a reporter could travel for days without seeing much evidence of relief supplies?
 
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Rawalpindi - August 9, 2010:

Pakistan Army continues its untiring rescue and relief operations in the flood hit areas of Sindh, Punjab, FATA, KPK and Northern Areas. Special Support Group has established 3 flood control centers at Chaklala, Tarbela and Abbotabad to collect flood relief goods from various donor agencies for further dispatch to the flood hit areas.

A total of 930 boats including 782 of Pakistan Army are being used in rescue and relief operation in flood hit areas. Troops have evacuated more than 1, 75, 000 marooned people from flooded areas.

Besides cooked food packets, 32720 Meals Ready to Eat (MRE) were also distributed amongst the flood affectees of KPK. During last 24 hours, 2250 people have been given medical treatment in medical camps at Charsadda and Jallozai. 6966 bags of rations, 800 tents, and 650 blankets were distributed among the affectees at Kund, Khairabad, Utamzai, Panda Khek, Turnab, Satryab Charsadda, Sheikh Ismail, Bada Khan, Laikot, Pishmal, Aryani Bagla, Kalam Bazar and Shahpur on Sunday.150 patients have been given necessary medical assistance and 1500 individuals have been provided hot meals at relief camps established at D I Khan. 5 Helicopters of Pakistan Army have flown for relief activities to Upper Swat and D I Khan.

Troops are busy day and night to evacuate the stranded people from the flood affected districts of Sindh.

Army Flood Control Center has been established at Abbotabad to provide rescue and relief to affected peoples in AJK, KKH and Northern Areas. As many as 8 Helicopters are employed for relief and rescue in Northern Areas.

Army Engineers are working round the clock to repair damaged bridges in KPK and FATA. Repair of Bridge at Bagh Dheri, Swat has been completed and opened for light traffic. Sakhra and Kalakot Bridges in Upper Swat are being repaired with the help of locals. 4 Foot Bridges were made functional at, Madyan, Kalam and Behrain.

Takhta Band by Pass and Hazara Bridge in Mingora have been repaired by Army Engineers and opened for traffic. Ali Masjid Bridge in Khyber Agency on Pak-Torkham road has also been repaired and traffic restored. Repair work on road Torkham – Peshawar is being carried out in collaboration with Political Administration and Khyber Rifles at Ali Masjid, Kata Kushta, Bigiari and Ayub Killi. All endeavors are being made to ensure smooth flow of traffic.

15 Army Field Hospitals and number of free Medical Camps are working at KPK, Sindh and Punjab to provide health care facilities to patients of flood affected areas. 100 mobile clinics in collaboration with civil administration have been made functional. 2 x Water purification plants are being installed at Nowshera and Charsada.
 
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PEOPLE are not as enthusiastic as they were in 2005!!!! sad state of affairs this time round from our nation!! zameer maar gaya hai pakistanioun kaa!


I don't think most of the people have grasped the gravity of the situation as yet. What you have seen at the Television is not even perhaps 30 percent of the devastation.

Here is a news for you to ponder..

A United Nations official says the number of people affected by Pakistan's massive floods could exceed the combined total of three recent major natural disasters.

Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said Monday if the Pakistan government's calculations are correct, the scale of the disaster could be worse than Haiti's January earthquake, the 2004 tsunami, and the 2005 Pakistan earthquake combined.


People are doing as much as they can but while the 2005 earthquake was concentrated in a specific area, the floods have caused wide spread devastation. And the problem is that with continuing rain and flash-floods, you cannot reach these people. Air operations need clear weather while road links have been severed.
 
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No nonsense, the U.N. was quoted in the article, too. Don't you get it? The scale of this disaster is so great that all that aid is a mere drop in the bucket of what is needed. We're talking about millions of people, therefore tens of thousands of TONS of material aid is necessary! (If four million people need just ten pounds of aid each, that's twenty thousand tons.) So why should one be surprised that a reporter could travel for days without seeing much evidence of relief supplies?

Hype is Hype. You check and corroborate before making senseless statements, sorry but that article was nonsensical to me, (Reporter: I need a scoop bad, "ding: i know, lets bash the government")

Reporter to (Random victim: Hey buddy you got anything yet)

Random Victim: To be honest we are just recovering from the loss of our homes (Reporter: Great stuff, human suffering sells)

Reporter to Victim: You angry

Victim: Hell yeah im angry, lost all my crops (Reporter: Great financial loss, economic angle... Im loving it)

Reporter: You got any aid yet, .... Umm... Well ( Reporter: So you mean no! You got no aid... (Victim: Yeah... Yeah.. That's it we got no aid~)... ( Reporter: Great, government ineptitude... This sounds great)

Reporter to victim: Well im going to leave you to your fate now, i got what i wanted...:devil:

Victim: WTF! :frown:

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IN short the dude who wrote this did not do it out of the humanity in their heart, but for the fist full of benny franklin's. Ethics go out of the window when you want to secure a scoop!
 
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Marooned flood victims looking to escape grab the side bars of a hovering Army helicopter which arrived to distribute food supplies in Muzaffargarh in Pakistan's Punjab province. Pakistanis desperate to get out of flooded villages threw themselves at helicopters on Saturday as more heavy rain was expected to intensify both suffering and anger with the government. The disaster killed more than 1,600 people and disrupted the lives of 12 million.
 
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Hype is Hype. You check and corroborate before making senseless statements, sorry but that article was nonsensical to me -
Did you actually read past the headline? Not only was the U.N. quoted, but the article claimed
an Associated Press reporter who traveled widely through the worst-hit areas in Sindh over the past three days saw no sign of relief camps or government assistance.

^^ LOL Thailand gave more then the UAE... Where are your arab saviours now?
Your flippant attitude towards the disaster engulfing your countrymen strikes me as very odd.
 
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Landslides complicate Pakistan flood relief efforts
By Junaid Khan Junaid Khan – 46 mins ago

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Soldiers and aid workers struggled on Monday to reach at least a million people cut off by landslides that have complicated relief efforts after the worst floods in Pakistan in 80 years.

Poor weather has grounded relief helicopters and more rain was expected to compound the misery of more than 13 million people -- about 8 percent of the population -- whose lives have been disrupted by the floods, including two million homeless.

The floods have killed more than 1,600 people.

In the Swat Valley, northwest of Islamabad, soldiers and aid workers are using mules or traveling on foot to reach people in desperate need of help.

The catastrophe has put unpopular President Asif Ali Zardari on the defensive while raising the profile of the military which is spearheading relief efforts.

The floods, which began 10 days ago after heavy monsoon rain over the upper reaches of the Indus river basin, have plowed a swathe of destruction more than 1,000 km (600 miles) long from northern Pakistan to the southern province of Sindh.

While the water has begun to recede in some parts of the north, water-logged mountainsides long stripped of forest cover have begun to slide in some areas, isolating communities.

"We have brought in 130 mules to take food supplies to the cut-off valleys," an army spokesman in Swat, Major Mushtaq Khan, told Reuters, adding that bad weather had grounded helicopters for the past two days.

"About one million people are stranded because the main road link has been severed ... We believe that most stocks villagers had, have been exhausted and they need supplies."

Zardari's decision to go ahead with official trips to Europe during the crisis has renewed criticism of his leadership. The military has taken the lead in relief efforts while the government is under fire for perceived dithering.

The president is expected back by mid-week.

Analysts say there is no chance the military, which has vowed to stay out of politics and is preoccupied fighting militants, will try to seize power.

ISLAMISTS FILL AID VOID

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in New York on Monday that he was "extremely concerned" about the humanitarian impact of the floods in Pakistan and would soon launch an emergency aid appeal for several hundred million dollars.

The United Nations said in terms of the number of people who have lost their homes or livelihoods, and will need short- or long-term help, the floods were worse than the 2004 tsunami, which killed 236,000 people around the Indian Ocean.

In Punjab province, army helicopters rescued people and their livestock from rooftops in Mehmood Kot village, a scene being played out in many parts of the country.

Some soldiers are getting frustrated by people's reluctance to leave their homes.

"When we try to take them, they say they don't want to leave and instead they demand food. We have to fly again to bring food. This is a major problem for us," Lieutenant Colonel Salman Rafiq said.

One woman gave birth to twin boys in her flooded house in the town of Sanawa. Neighbors carried the woman and her babies on a rope bed through the flood to a helicopter.

U.S. officials are also concerned about the damage caused by the weak government response to the floods and mounting hostility toward Zardari.

Pakistan is a key U.S. ally whose help Washington needs to end a nine-year insurgency by Taliban militants in Afghanistan.

Heavy rain has also hit India where military helicopters plucked about 150 foreign tourists to safety in the Himalayan region of Ladakh where flash floods have killed 156 people.

Charities with links to militants have taken advantage of the vacuum left by the Pakistani government and delivered aid to thousands, possibly boosting their standing among Pakistanis as Taliban militants press on with their war.

U.S. concerns are also growing over the disaster's impact on Pakistan's fragile economy and how Washington's robust development plan may be slowed down to deal with the crisis.

Pakistan's economy will need huge injections of foreign aid. It turned to the International Monetary Fund in 2008 to avert a balance of payments crisis and has been struggling to meet the conditions of that $10.66 billion emergency loan.

Pakistani stocks closed 2.8 percent lower at 10,026.20, near a one-month low, as investors contemplated the extent of the flood damage, dealers said. [nSGE67806U]

In the southern province of Sindh, which has yet to see the full force of the deluge flowing south to the sea, up to one million people have been evacuated from low-lying areas.

(Additional reporting by Zeeshan Haider, Kamran Haider, Adrees Latif and Faisal Aziz; Sue Pleming in Washington, Louis Charbonneau at the United Nations; Writing by Michael Georgy; Editing by Robert Birsel and Sanjeev Miglani)
 
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BBC News - Race against time in Pakistan floods

VIDEO - Race against time in Pakistan floods

A key dam has been breached by floodwater in southern Pakistan, putting at least 400,000 people at risk.

The BBC's Orla Guerin has spent the day with Pakistan's military on a rescue operation in Sindh, to find flood victims before it is too late.
 
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That Picture just says it all ! :(
I hope they survive and I hope they havent lost anything major :(

Ironically as I'm typing this I'm listerning to Hans Zimmers
the thin Red LIne - Journey to the line



May Allah(swt) save them
 
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