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
Special packages for doctors in quake areas
The
Speaking at a workshop on ‘District health planning and advocacy,’ at the Khyber Medical College (
He said the government had initially sanctioned a Rs 90 million grant to purchase medicines.
Belgium considering swap of 60m euro debt with quake aid
“My country will consider seriously to write off the loan of 60 million euros,” Mr De Gucht said after talks with his Pakistani counterpart Khurshid Kasuri.
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