"Risk of disease rises amid Pakistan’s worst flooding; Victims angered by lack of medical care, other aid" by Chris Brummitt, Associated Press | August 3, 2010
PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistan dispatched medical teams yesterday to the deluged northwest amid fears that cholera could spread after the worst floods in the country’s history, which have already killed up to 1,200 people, an official said.
The disaster has forced around 2 million to flee their homes. Residents have railed against the government for failing to provide enough emergency assistance nearly a week after extremely heavy monsoon rains triggered raging floodwaters in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa province.
Around 250 flood victims blocked a main road in the hard-hit district of Nowshera late Monday, complaining they had received little or no assistance, according to an Associated Press Television News cameraman at the scene.
The government says it has deployed thousands of rescue workers....
Many residents said it seems officials are doing nothing. Thousands more people in the province remain trapped by the floodwaters.
The anger of the flood victims poses a danger to the already struggling government, now competing with Islamist movements to deliver aid in a region with strong Taliban influence.
The "terrorists" supplying aid?
“We need tents. Just look around,’’ said flood victim Faisal Islam, sitting on the only dry ground he could find in Nowshera district — a highway median — surrounded by hundreds of people in makeshift shelters constructed from dirty sheets and plastic tarps.
If you didn't know where it was it could be Haiti.
Like many other residents of Pakistan’s northwest, people camped out by the highway in Kamp Koroona village waded through the water to their damaged houses to salvage their remaining possessions: usually just a few mud-covered plates and chairs....
Now people in the northwest also face the threat of waterborne disease — which could kill thousands more if health workers cannot deliver enough clean drinking water and treat and isolate any patients in crowded relief camps....
The flooding crisis is especially dire because so many people lost all that they had, said Muhammad Ateeb Siddiqui, the Red Crescent’s director of operations.
“We now need to urgently distribute not only food but also the means to cook it,’’ he said. “The distribution of relief is severely constrained by damaged infrastructure, and the widespread contamination of water supplies has the potential to create major health problems.’’
The agencies said the flood impact will shift south in the coming days as the waters move downstream.
Will the MSM stay with it?
The weak and unpopular Pakistani government is already struggling to cope with a faltering economy and a brutal war against Taliban militants that has killed thousands of people in the past few years....
Pakistani women prayed by the Ravi River in Lahore yesterday as the government struggled to respond to widespread flooding. (Arif Ali/ AFP/ Getty Images)
You have all mine, ladies.
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"7 die protesting India’s Kashmir policy" by Associated Press | August 3, 2010
SRINAGAR, India — Government troops fired live ammunition and tear gas into crowds of anti-India protesters yesterday, killing seven, police said, as tens of thousands of people demonstrated across Indian-controlled Kashmir.
Yeah, they CAN'T BE PRO-INDEPENDENCE or SELF-DETERMINATION!
At least you KNOW WHERE the AGENDA-PUSHING AmeriKan war rag is coming down on this.
More than 60 protesters and almost 70 government forces were injured on one of the worst days in nearly two months of violent clashes between troops and residents who strongly oppose India’s rule over the predominantly Muslim region.
Yeah, why are they still there?
Maybe Kashmir should just claim independence, huh?
The top elected official in the region, Omar Abdullah, met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in New Delhi yesterday to discuss defusing the crisis that has caused 40 deaths over seven weeks....
Yeah, ever notice as soon as Pakistan and India sit down to talk peace something happens!?
The recent unrest in the Himalayan region — divided between India and Pakistan and claimed by both — is reminiscent of the late 1980s, when protests against New Delhi’s rule sparked an armed conflict that has since claimed 68,000 lives, mostly civilians.
And mostly Muslim; however, the Zionist newspaper doesn't want you to know that.
Kashmiri Muslims protesting government restrictions have attacked security camps with rocks and burned police stations. Government forces have responded by using live ammunition and tear gas to break up the protests.
And you wonder why they are out there in the streets?
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And look what washed up in the web version:
"37 killed when assassination spurs violence" by Associated Press | August 3, 2010
KARACHI, Pakistan — Gunmen went on killing sprees in Pakistan’s largest city after the assassination of a lawmaker, killing at least 37 people by today. Dozens of vehicles and shops were set on fire as security forces struggled to gain control as Karachi seethed.
The southern city of more than 16 million has a history of political, ethnic, and religious violence, and has long been a hideout for Al Qaeda and Taliban militants.
The latest unrest occurred after Raza Haider, a provincial lawmaker, was shot dead along with his bodyguard in a mosque while preparing to offer prayers.
Haider was a member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, the political party that runs the city and represents mainly descendants of migrants from India who settled in Pakistan....
Gee, and who would want to stir that up?
