Aftermath
Quake-hit school set to reopen
A school rebuilt by the people of Edinburgh is set to open on the third anniversary of the earthquake which destroyed much of the region.
In October 2005, the massive quake killed 75,000 in the country’s north-western province, destroying entire villages and hundreds of key buildings.
But thanks to a fund raising campaign in the Capital, around £25,000 was raised and the school in the village of Kohley, in the Siran Valley, was rebuilt.
Three years on, the building will be officially opened next Wednesday.
Foundation layed for New Balakot
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf presided on Monday over a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction of a new town to replace one almost completely destroyed in a 2005 earthquake.
The northern town of Balakot suffered the most severe damage in the Oct. 8, 2005, earthquake that killed 73,000 people in Pakistan. Rather then rebuilding it on two fault lines, authorities are moving the town to a site 22 km (15 miles) away.
“Balakot has been totally destroyed and devastated. Now an excellent and properly designed town will be built in place of Balakot,” Musharraf said in a speech at the site of New Balakot.
2,000 Muzaffarabad buildings to be razed
The
“From today, we have kick-started the project, which, in fact lays, the basis of reconstruction in this town,” said the corporation’s Administrator Arshad Mahmood Abbasi at a news conference here on Saturday.
The project has two components: demolition of dangerous buildings and removal of their debris at a cost of Rs 210 million and augmentation of the civic body’s capacity through purchase of equipment and recruitment of around 35 staff.
Quake-hit people desperate for shelters, medicines
Survivors of the Oct 2005
The number of patients has increased due to the inclement weather conditions.
There is one hospital in the town constructed by the
Prince Charles and Camilla Parker visits earthquake affected areas
The couple, on their first trip to
“Our sympathies are with you,” reporters overheard Charles telling one of the residents they met on their three-hour trip. Most of the projects in the town are UK-funded.
U.S. to train 30,000 teachers in Pakistani quake areas
The
Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker made the announcement during the inauguration by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz of the first school built by United States Agency for International Development (
“The school buildings are the hardware and they have to have the software to go with it and that means the teachers,” Crocker said while announcing plans to build 50 schools and train 30,000 teachers in Frontier province and Pakistani
Quake survivors stage anti-graft protest
Hundreds of survivors of last year’s earthquake in
Waving placards reading “Stop taking bribes”, “Spend the winter with us” and “Build our homes before snowfall”, the demonstrators marched from parliament to the office of the
The protest came a day before the first anniversary of the earthquake. “For the past four and a half months, I have received not a single penny,” said Gohar Rehman, a father of five who had come from
UN seeking $45m for winter operations
The
So far, about two-thirds of that sum has been made available, said a UN press release issued on Saturday, a day ahead of the anniversary of the devastating earthquake that shook the northern parts of the country in 2005.