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Building a future

Much has been lost in the shape of lives, property and material well-being due to the worst floods in history. It is however, pure folly to consider each one of the IDPs as people who were always downtrodden and impoverished. Some of them were just as full of stomach and pocket as you and me before the floods inundated their towns and villages. They...
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Going beyond the financial package

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Going beyond the financial package

Anybody who had been to the quake affected areas of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Jammu and Kashmir aftermath the October 2005 earthquake, in which...

Evacuation from Gilgit – II

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Evacuation from Gilgit – II

“We’ll never get on!” one man shouted, while a group of woman protested that the gates should be opened to allow one little boy who, after being...

Evacuation from Gilgit – I

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Evacuation from Gilgit – I

For over three weeks, Pakistan Air Force C-130 transport planes evacuated stranded foreigners, government officials, ‘down country’ and ‘local families’...

Catch the spirit

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Catch the spirit

It is an overwhelming feeling when people unite for a cause. When in an instant, strangers no longer remain strangers. In the last 10 days, I’ve seen...

Hungry and homeless

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Hungry and homeless

A series of eyewitness accounts from volunteers at relief camps across the country: The Pakistan Youth Alliance (PYA) made simultaneous deliveries on...

Security threat to aid convoys

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Security threat to aid convoys

As part of the Offroad Pakistan relief convoy, I have been making regular trips to interior Sindh. On our first trip to Sukkur two weeks ago, our trucks...

Evacuation and rescue mission in Thatta

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Evacuation and rescue mission in Thatta

DAY ONE:   Yesterday morning I took off on a bus with a team of twenty male doctors from Civil Hospital and Dow University’s Post Graduate Committee...

Customising relief packages

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Customising relief packages

A series of eyewitness accounts from volunteers at relief camps across the country: Pakistanis are known for their resilience.  Many young volunteers...

Waiting for relief

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Waiting for relief

A series of eyewitness accounts from volunteers at relief camps across the country: Last weekend I accompanied the PYA team that went to Rajanpur. At...

At a complete standstill

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At a complete standstill

A series of eyewitness accounts from volunteers at relief camps across the country: As part of the Future Leaders of Pakistan’s (FLP) flood relief...