The other side of the story...
I was watching Geo, and they reported the safe recovery of a 3 year old boy.
Then I changed to Aaj, and they were showing footage from NWFP. The people there were desperate because so far NO HELP has come to those poor villages that have vanished.
Then Fakhr-E-Alam was on Aaj, and he told of the brilliant work that has been done by Karachiites, to which no words of thanks can do justice.
Then he told the other stories.
The stories of shop-keepers who have increased the prices of Kafan (shroud) from Rs. 125 to Rs. 250. Are they not going to die one day? What about the many shop-keepers who have decided to make a killing out of this opportunity? They make me sick.
The stories of people stranded in villages cut off from any highway. Everything in those villages has been levelled to the ground. No buildings are left standing. People are homeless, and what's more, there is no way except by air that any help could get to them. Just 16 kilometres away from Muzaffarabad, where tremendous relief work is being undertaken, lie 500 corpses on the roads. Almost 5,000 people are homeless.
I think of all the villages that have been levelled, and have vanished. We don't even know how much damage is done in how many places.
The pain is so excrutiating that they have to take their own lives.
Time is critical. The rehabilitation work also has to be looked at. The Northern Areas, where everyone is homeless, snow will start falling in another 15 days.
PLEASE
PLEASE
PLEASE
PRAY FOR US
Then I changed to Aaj, and they were showing footage from NWFP. The people there were desperate because so far NO HELP has come to those poor villages that have vanished.
Then Fakhr-E-Alam was on Aaj, and he told of the brilliant work that has been done by Karachiites, to which no words of thanks can do justice.
Then he told the other stories.
The stories of shop-keepers who have increased the prices of Kafan (shroud) from Rs. 125 to Rs. 250. Are they not going to die one day? What about the many shop-keepers who have decided to make a killing out of this opportunity? They make me sick.
The stories of people stranded in villages cut off from any highway. Everything in those villages has been levelled to the ground. No buildings are left standing. People are homeless, and what's more, there is no way except by air that any help could get to them. Just 16 kilometres away from Muzaffarabad, where tremendous relief work is being undertaken, lie 500 corpses on the roads. Almost 5,000 people are homeless.
I think of all the villages that have been levelled, and have vanished. We don't even know how much damage is done in how many places.
The pain is so excrutiating that they have to take their own lives.
Time is critical. The rehabilitation work also has to be looked at. The Northern Areas, where everyone is homeless, snow will start falling in another 15 days.
PLEASE
PLEASE
PLEASE
PRAY FOR US
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