Current situation after quake
Sunday 9th October 2005
On 9th October 2005, at 19:25pm PKT, Sajjad said:
I'm at Margalla Towers right now and posting from my phone. Work is continuing at full pace and it seems they've just reached another survivor.
Lots of people, vehicles and machinery are gathered here, helping out with the effort. I'll post pictures later.
On 10th October 2005, at 10:40am PKT, Ulrich Plate said:
Glad you and your folks are ok, Sajjad, I was rather worried because the media over here do make it look like Islamabad was hit just as hard as the mountains. What an awful thing to happen. Best wishes from Germany.
On 10th October 2005, at 22:06pm PKT, fawad said:
AOA,
Good to hear that you are ok.
Here are some links to places where people can donate. A lot of them accept donations through credit card and PayPal.
Edhi
http://pakistan.wikicities.com/wiki/Edhi_Foundation#Australia
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President fund, accepts paypal(credit cards)
http://akhbar.urdupoint.com/khas/charity_projects/quake/
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https://remit.ublny.com/ can be used to send donations
to Mir Khalil UR
Rehman Foundation - MKRF using the following
MKRF - Pakistan Earthquake Relief Fund
A/C: 0102598-5
Branch Code: 1234
Branch Name: Al Rehman Branch
Address: I.I Chundrigar Rd.
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ICNA relief can be also used to send donations.
http://reliefonline.org/
Tax exempt id is available if donated through ICNA
relief.
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Ummah Welfare Trust UK (Credit Cards)
http://www.uwt.org/
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Hidaya is also a trusted way to donate. Tax-exempt
donations can be made online.
http://hidaya.org/
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Muslim Aid (credit cards)
http://www.muslimaid.org/
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Muslim Hands (Credit cards)
http://www.muslimhands.org/Site/Pages/Appeals/PakistanKashmirEarthquake
On 24th October 2005, at 10:46am PKT, Dr. Ali Warsi said:
Hello,
Sajjad Zaidi,
This is Dr. Ali Warsi from Karachi who met you in Muzafarabad with a Medical Team. We like your work very much and you have done tremendous job by producing your report on WEB. I will be very grateful to you if you add our report in it. Please contact me on my Cell No.0333-2347884 and send me SMS on it.
On 5th December 2005, at 06:45am PKT, Anonymous said:
I'm asking myself: How can it be that I've never ran through your site before? It's a great one!
On 8th December 2005, at 03:12am PKT, Anonymous said:
No comments. Well done.
On 8th December 2005, at 16:37pm PKT, Anonymous said:
Nothing to say, interisting point of view.
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Current situation after quake
It has been just over 32 hours since the earthquake struck and the death toll is still rising. The last count was over 19,000 dead and over 42,000 injured. Aftershocks had stopped after the early morning ones, but they have returned in groups of 3 or 4, separated only by minutes. There were quite a few very long ones this afternoon.
Though most of the images on TV show the single apartment block in Islamabad, virtually all the damage was done in the mountainous region north of here. There are reports of mudslides there and there isn't much aid getting through due to blocked roads and bad terrain. Last night's thunderstorm and rain didn't help either. All this would make it very difficult to get accurate casualty and death figures.
At the time of the quake and for a while after it, things didn't look nearly as bad. There weren't even any reports of any structural damage, let alone collapses and deaths. It was only much later that the actual realization came through.
My friends and I, as a lot of other people, really want to help out with the rescue effort, but there doesn't seem to be much we can do on the ground right now. Without the right expertise, resources and planning, it might actually hinder the rescue effort instead of helping it. Since most of the rescue work is currently only possible by air, driving upto such a place would only cause problems such as road blocks.
In the meantime, we have decided to do whatever we can using our current skillsets. I was searching for a central website which might accept donations online, but did not find any and it is one area I can work on. We should have something running soon.
Here are a few links which might help those wanting to make donations:
http://www.supportunicef.org/site/pp.asp?c=iuI1LdP0G&b=45523http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc102?OpenForm
http://donate.wvus.org/OA_HTML/xxwvibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10025&item=4
Posted at 17:27pm PKT