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interesting link I got in the email

The IMF and The World Bank have organized a happy hour at a local lounge. Students will be given the opportunity to meet with an expected 400 IMF/WB personnel and also donate to the largest natural disaster in history. They are looking to create awareness and staff from the State Department will be present at this event. Please refer the following link for more details:


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it's a good initiative.....people ''have fun'' and get drunk; the proceeds go to a good cause at least
 
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Pakistan's cricketers donate bonuses to floods relief
akistan's top cricketers have dug into their pockets to help the flood relief effort in the country.

Players and officials on the national team agreed to donate bonuses totalling $54,400 (£35,000; 4.6m rupees).

They pledged half their bonuses after beating England in the third Test last week, the Pakistan Cricket Board said.

The rare good news came as an earthquake in the Hindu Kush mountains rocked parts of the country, although there were no reports of casualties.

Tuesday's 5.2 magnitude tremor shook the Swat Valley and regions close to Hindu Kush, Zahid Rafi, director of the seismic centre at Pakistan's meteorological department, told the AFP news agency.

As flood waters were predicted to rise further in some areas, Pakistan's leaders held high-level talks aimed at preventing a mass health crisis.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said the government was "seriously concerned" about the potential spread of epidemic diseases in the flood-hit country.

New flooding fears
Doctors in many areas are reportedly struggling to cope with the spread of diseases such as diarrhoea and cholera.

The UN says more than 17 million people have been affected by the floods, with about 1.2 million homes destroyed.

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The task of coping with disease will be made more difficult by the sheer numbers of people cut off by the floods.

An estimated 800,000 people are stranded, the UN said - many in the mountainous north west, where roads and bridges have been swept away.

The United States has deployed at least 18 helicopters to fly regular relief missions, but the UN said it would need at least 40 more heavy-duty aircraft working at full capacity to reach those who have been cut off.

There are fears of further flooding as the Indus river at Hyderabad, already at a 50-year high, is expected to rise even more.

Mr Gilani told the meeting of senior doctors, health ministry officials, UN representatives and members of non-governmental organisations that Pakistan was experiencing "the worst natural calamity of its history".

"As human misery continues to mount, we are seriously concerned with spread of epidemic diseases," he said.

"There is likelihood of water-borne diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea and dysentery, especially in children who are already weak and vulnerable."

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Analysis


Jill McGivering
BBC News, Islamabad
There is a growing need for a fast and effective response to the potential health crisis here. Millions of people, directly affected by the floods, are now at risk. Children and the elderly are a particular concern.

The prime minister's office said that the special emergency section of the ministry of health would take a leading role - coordinating all relief efforts.

The government is facing a lot of criticism for its handling of this crisis - and the PM's move could be seen as a response. He is seizing the initiative and taking a leading role.

There is no doubt that the need will be huge. About a third of the country's female health workers have themselves been displaced by the floods - and the government estimates that in the next six months, about half a million women in the affected areas will give birth.

Saving baby Samina
Aid camps 'overwhelmed'
Pakistan's national health co-ordinator said the immediate health situation in the flood zone was under control but the threat had not passed.

"Health problems usually arise in flood-affected areas after four to six weeks, and we need to be alert and prepared to tackle the situation," Dr Jahanzeb Orakza said.

Residents of Muzaffargarh in the Punjab region told the BBC's Asian Network they were struggling to cope.

"Those whose homes have survived are getting the food they need. The people who lost their homes, they're not getting anything," said 11-year-old Mansur Rizman.

"They need to give to the people whose homes have been destroyed."

'Lasting impact'

The World Food Programme says it already has enough food in Pakistan to feed six million people for a month but distribution has been hampered by a lack of resources and the country's shattered infrastructure.

Pakistani Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh is due to attend talks with the IMF on Wednesday to discuss easing restrictions on its $11bn loan package so it better fits the country's new economic reality.

Officials say the floods have destroyed more than 1.7m hectares (4.25m acres) of land, which will have a significant impact on the agricultural sector and the country's economic growth.

The IMF's regional director, Masood Ahmed told Reuters the flood would have "a major and lasting impact" on Pakistan.

BBC News - Pakistan's cricketers donate bonuses to floods relief
 
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Canadian is a country which always leads in humanitarian work around the world but always ignores Pakistan, on the other hand Thanks to USA for leading the way in aid and helicopters to help the victims. :usflag:

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Families trapped in Jaffarabad yet to be rescued

QUETTA: Thousands of families trapped in flood-affected areas of Jaffarabad district are yet to be rescued. They are facing an acute shortage of food, drinking water and medicines.

Although the army has rescued hundreds of people, a large number of families are still stranded in the flooded areas and along the Khirthar canal.

The death toll in Jaffarabad rose to 50 on Tuesday. Fifteen of them died of gastroenteritis and other diseases and the others were swept away by flood ********.

“Yes, so far 50 people have died in Jaffarabad,” Nasirabad Division Commissioner Nasibullah Bazai told Dawn, adding that a large number of people were still stranded in different areas. The administration, with the help of the army and Frontier Corps, he said, was trying to rescue them.

“But we need more helicopters and boats.” Breaches in Saifullah Magsi canal have released ******** of water which have inundated Gandakha town and adjoining areas.

Officials said the army and local administration were trying to rescue people stranded in the town. But there have been complaints that no helicopter or boat has been to Gandakha for two days and people there are starving.

Like Gandakha, Dera Allahyar, Rojhan Jamali and Sohbatpur are under eight to ten feet of water. Irrigation officials and local people succeeded on Tuesday in changing the course of water from Jhal Magsi to its natural channels in Sindh. The town has already been evacuated.

“Jhal Magsi is now safe,” officials said, adding that the floodwater was now moving to Ghari Khairo, Shahdadkot and Garhi Yasin on the Sindh-Balochistan border.

However, Kot Magsi and many of its villages are still under water. A number of rice mills have been inundated and rice crop in Usta Mohammad has been destroyed.



Health officials said that hundreds of cases of gastroenteritis, sink diseases, eye infections and other waterborne diseases had been reported from flood-stricken towns and villages and relief camps in Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi, Dhadar and Quetta. Four people, a woman and a child among them, died in Dera Allahyar and Sohbatpur on Monday.

The officials said that there was an acute shortage of medicines in hospitals and medical camps in the district. A large number of patients are being treated in hospitals in Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta.

Meanwhile, Deputy Chairman of the Senate Mir Jan Mohammad Khan Jamali has warned that hundreds of thousands of people stranded in areas of Jaffarabad district will die of hunger and diseases if they are not rescued immediately.

“They are living in the open and facing hunger, thirst and different diseases,” he told Dawn here on Tuesday.

“Affected families have not been receiving food and drinking water for 10 days,” Mr Jamali said, adding that a large number of people had fallen sick because of consuming contaminated water.

He said the government and the army should immediately launch a rescue operation to avert further tragedy.

Mr Jamali severely criticised the local administration and said there was no civil administration in Dear Allahyar, Rojhan Jamali and Usta Mohammad. “Officials of the administration fled the towns after issuing evacuation warnings.”

He said the Balochistan government should set up a base camp in Nasirabad to monitor and accelerate relief operation and the army should provide more helicopters for rescuing people.

Mr Jamali, a former chief minister, suggested that the provincial government should divert its development and non-development expenditures to relief and rehabilitation work in the flood-hit areas.

He said he had written a letter to Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry requesting him to take sue motu notice of the breach made in the Tori embankment which had inundated Jaffarabad. He said the breach had displaced four million people in Sindh and one million in Balochistan.
 
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UN says 800,000 people cut off by floods

The United Nations has launched an urgent appeal for more helicopters for Pakistan where it said 800,000 people have been cut off by the country’s devastating floods and were only reachable by air.

“As monsoon floods continue to displace millions in southern Pakistan, an estimated 800,000 people in need across the country are only accessible by air,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. ”More helicopters are urgently required,” OCHA said in a statement Tuesday.

The worst natural disaster in Pakistan’s history has already affected 20 million people in nearly a month of flooding triggered by heavy monsoon rains, and left 1,500 people dead.

Five million people have been made homeless across the country and officials have warned that millions are at risk from disease and food shortages. “These unprecedented floods pose unprecedented logistical challenges, and this requires an extraordinary effort by the international community,” said John Holmes, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

Marcus Prior of the World Food Programme said at least 40 additional heavy-lift helicopters were needed “to reach the huge numbers of increasingly desperate people with life-saving relief”, according to the OCHA statement.

Pakistani officials have warned that the country’s fertile southern plains face the risk of more flooding in the next few days as a major river threatens to burst its banks.
 
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China once again to provide 60 million yuan relief materials to Pakistan。

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中国向巴基斯坦提供6000万元救灾物资ÐÂÀËÊ×Ò³ 2010年08月25日12:58 中国新闻网
  中新社北京8月25日电 (记者 翁阳)记者25日从中国商务部获悉,中国政府决定再向巴基斯坦洪灾灾民提供价值6000万元人民币的救灾物资,用于提供急需的帐篷、净水器等。加之此前确定的两批援助,中国援巴物资总金额已达1.2亿元。

  25日,中国紧急援助巴基斯坦价值2000万元的新一批物资开始发运。这批物资由新疆喀什经红其拉甫口岸,通过陆路运抵巴方指定的苏斯特干港。目前,喀什至红其拉甫之间的道路不通,工程兵正在抢修。该批物资包括灾区急需的粮食、食用油、面粉、白糖、盐和药品等生活必需品,将用于救助洪扎地区堰塞湖的受困民众。

  随着这批物资全部运抵巴方,中国将完成第二批援巴洪灾物资运送。在中国向巴基斯坦提供的第二批救灾物资中,已有价值3000万元的急需物品分别于8月19日和20日运抵巴首都伊斯兰堡。

  7月底以来,巴基斯坦暴雨不断,造成特大洪灾,迄今已致1500多人丧生,2000万人受灾,至少16万平方公里的国土被洪水淹没。灾情严重急迫,南部灾区粮食短缺,灾民无处容身,给巴社会经济带来严峻考验,引起国际社会同情与关注。

  灾情发生后,中国商务部高官多次会见巴方驻华机构人员,了解巴基斯坦灾情,研讨援助方案,并通过驻巴机构了解中国在巴人员情况,要求确保在巴人员生命安全与生活稳定,保护好中国在巴援建、合作工程项目。商务部目前正在考虑巴洪灾过后,派出综合考察组赴巴了解巴方援助需求和落实灾后重建项目等有关事宜。(完)

China provided Pakistan with 60 million yuan relief materials ÐÂÀËÊ×Ò³ 2010 年 08 月 25 日 12:58 China News Net
China news agency, Beijing, August 25 (Reporter Weng Yang) - Press 25 from the Ministry of Commerce informed the Chinese government has decided to flood victims in Pakistan, 60 million yuan worth of relief materials for the provision of urgently needed tents, water purification etc.. Combined with previously identified two groups of aid, the total amount of supplies Pakistan with Chinese assistance has reached 120 million yuan.

25, China, Pakistan emergency aid worth 20 million yuan began shipping a new batch of material. After these materials from the Kashi Khunjerab ports, arrived in Pakistan through the land designated Souster dry port. Currently, Kashi to Khunjerab not reached by road between, Corps of Engineers is repairing. The materials include the affected areas urgently needed food, edible oil, flour, sugar, salt and medicines and other daily necessities, will be used to rescue the trapped people Honza dammed lakes region.

With all of these supplies arrived in Pakistan, China will complete the second batch of aid supplies transported Bahun disaster. China provided to Pakistan in the second batch of relief supplies have been badly needed goods worth 30 million yuan respectively on August 19 and 20, arrived in Islamabad.

Since the end of July, heavy rain continued in Pakistan, causing serious flooding has so far caused more than 1,500 people killed, 2000 people were affected, at least 16 million square kilometers of land were flooded. Serious imminent disaster, food shortages in southern disaster, victims have nowhere to go, a critical challenge to the Palestinian economy, sympathy and concern from the international community.

After the disaster, the Chinese Ministry of Commerce officials met with the Pakistani Embassy officials in Pakistan about the situation and discuss assistance programs, and through the Baku agencies understand the situation of China in Pakistan, calls for ensuring the safety of personnel in Pakistan and living stability, protection Good Chinese in Pakistan reconstruction, cooperation projects. Ministry of Commerce is currently considering Bahun after disaster, sending comprehensive understanding of the assessment team to Pakistan Pakistan reconstruction assistance needs and implement projects related matters. (END)
 
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中国再向巴基斯坦提供6000万元物资援助

http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2010-08-25/200820974758.shtml

  中国再向巴基斯坦提供6000万元物资援助 全力帮助巴方抗洪救灾

  国际在线消息(记者 李晓萍):25日,中国宣布在已经提供6000万元人民币的紧急人道主义物资援助基础上,再向受严重洪灾影响的巴基斯坦提供价值6000万人民币的物资援助。

  当天,中国商务部国际贸易谈判副代表崇泉在北京会见了巴基斯坦驻华大使马苏德?汗。在会见时,崇泉作了上述表示。他说,希望中国的物资援助对巴基斯坦政府抗洪救灾工作尽绵薄之力,中巴是全天候的朋友,中国政府愿为巴基斯坦抗洪救灾提供力所能及的帮助。

  这批救援物资将于近日启运,主要包括帐篷等灾区急需物品。此前,中国已经分两批运送价值4000万元物资到巴基斯坦灾区,包括灾区民众急需的帐篷、食品、药品、净水设备和发电机等。另外2000万元物资今天也正式启运,将由陆路运送到巴方指定的港口,预计将于28日抵达。

  同时,中国民间组织、企业也在通过多种渠道为巴基斯坦提供援助。中国商务部还在考虑巴洪灾过后,派出综合考察组赴巴了解巴方援助需求和落实灾后重建项目等有关事宜。
  7月底以来,巴基斯坦暴雨不断,造成特大洪灾,迄今已致1500多人丧生,2000万人受灾,至少16万平方公里的国土被洪水淹没。

Pakistan, China to provide 60 million yuan further material aid ÐÂÀËÊ×Ò³ 2010 年 08 月 25 日 20:08 International Online
China further 60 million yuan aid to Pakistan to help Pakistan flood relief efforts

International online news (reporter Xiao-Ping Li): 25, China announced to provide 60 million yuan has already been the basis for emergency humanitarian aid, again affected by severe flooding in Pakistan to provide 60 million yuan worth of material aid.

The same day, Chinese Deputy Representative of the Ministry of Commerce of international trade negotiations in Beijing, Chong Quan met with Pakistani Ambassador to China Masood? Khan. At the meeting, Chong Quan made the remarks. He said he hoped the Chinese material assistance to the Pakistani government of contributing to flood relief work, China and Pakistan are all-weather friend, the Chinese government is willing to Pakistan to help in flood relief.

Recently, these will be shipped relief supplies, including tents and other disaster areas urgently needed items. Previously, China has 40 million yuan in two batches for shipping supplies to affected areas of Pakistan, including the earthquake-stricken areas urgently needed tents, food, medicines, water purification equipment and generators. Another 20 million yuan materials officially begins today, will be delivered to the Palestinian land designated port, expected to arrive on the 28th.

Meanwhile, the Chinese civil organizations, enterprises also through various channels to provide assistance to Pakistan. Chinese Ministry of Commerce also considered after floods in Pakistan, sent a comprehensive investigation group went to Pakistan, to understand the needs of the Government of Pakistan. Then plan to help Pakistan rebuild project.

Since the end of July, heavy rain continued in Pakistan, causing serious flooding has so far caused more than 1,500 people killed, 2000 people were affected, at least 16 million square kilometers of land were flooded.
 
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Reconstruction work in the future, China will certainly provide assistance to help Pakistan to restore life and economic development.Pakistan is not alone, we will be together.
 
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Canadian is a country which always leads in humanitarian work around the world but always ignores Pakistan

I don't think Canada ignored Pakistan. I just posted an article about it. Canada is matching donations made by individuals to registered charities apart from separate government funding.
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I don't really like the title "Brave Pashtun, rescue Pashtun"... :undecided:

Nice video.

i sent a message to the user on my personal youtube account; asking him to change the title

Pakistanis helping Pakistanis is the appropriate title; and more such images are going on but amidst the chaos a lot does go unreported
 
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