Country Information - Islamic Republic of Pakistan اسلامی جمہوریۂ پاکستان (PART 06)
Women of Pakistan
Scaling the Heights of Excellence
Women in Pakistan, are generally perceived to be confined to their houses in a tightly controlled society. Although, generally true, the trends are now changing. The 53% of total population is now finding avenues to express them and come out the shell they have been encased in for many centuries. However, there is a marked difference in their lives in urban and rural areas. While most urbanized women can now get from basic to masters level education, the women in rural areas are still struggling to reach up to secondary level of education.
The Rural Women count for the majority of female population. From daily household routine to joining their men folk in the fields at the time of harvest. However, they generally do not have a share in the income and lack adequate empowerment - but so do most women in the developing countries. Generally the rural women is not only subjected to financial discrimination, but they are also victims of inhuman customs and laws such as Karo Kari (the honour killing by relatives of the girl if she elopes with a man of her own choosing) and marriage to the Quran to save on the family property to being transferred outside the family. Though, now people are voicing concern about these age old stringent self proclaimed local laws, much still needs to be done. An active women specific NGO, "The Women's Action Forum" is playing a central role in exposing the controversy regarding various interpretations of Islamic law and its role in a modern state, and in publicizing ways in which women can play a more active role in politics.
Vocational and technical training for women tended to increase lately and training schools in non-traditional fields such as electric technology, computer technology, etc. are also increasing. However, many of the training programs by the government still cling to traditional fields such as sewing and embroidery where wages are low and employment opportunities are few and opportunities
for management.
The Urban Women, specially the major cities are more independent, owing to greater exposure to education of their men and impact of media. Now most females find their way to schools, colleges, universities or scholarships abroad. Other than the medicine, which was once considered to be the only profession which women joined, now even the most technical spheres like engineering, architecture, communications and IT. However, medicine remains the most favoured field generally pursued by the women. Women can now be seen encouraging cricket teams and participating all kinds of sports from cricket to athletics and even marathon recently held in Lahore (though much to the disgust to a section of conservists).
Today, women in Pakistan hold high ranking positions as the CEOs and executives. Recently the president has appointed Dr Shamshad Akhtar as the first female governor of the State Bank of Pakistan. Two lady doctors of the Pakistan Army have also risen to the rank of major general. The female doctors joined hands with the male doctors in the most inaccessible earth quake hit areas in the northern part of Pakistan to treat the sick and wounded.
There are many names to be honoured - Fatima Jinnah, Jinnah's sister who stood by her brother when he was struggling for an independent Muslim state from the British India, Razia Bhatti, the courageous journalist who braved the man dominated media in Pakistan and won Courage in the Journalism award. Then there is Anoushka, who became the first women and Pakistani of course to have gone to the frozen Arctic region. And finally Raheela Gul, a young women who was a trekker, expeditionist and history maker - had it not been the mournful earthquake of 8 October 2005 struck and she succumbed to the tragedy, Raheela would have been still with us - happily preparing for her Amazon Rainforest expedition. Mehreen Jabbar, another promising women is making headlines in filmmaking these days. Her work has appeared in many film festivals around the world including The Hong Kong International Film Festival, The San Francisco Asian-American Film Festival, and The Leeds Film Festival in U. K. to name a few. At home, in Pakistan, her unconventional style of story telling has earned her much acclaim and several awards. Nafis Sadiq, physician by profession, has spent a lifetime working on the politically charged and non-glamorous issues of global population control and women’s health, issues which at first glance some may consider irrelevant to their daily lives. Yasmeen Lari has the distinction of being Pakistan’s first woman architect. After retiring from a career in architecture which spanned over thirty-five years, these days she is devoting her time to writing and serving as an advisor to UNESCO project, Conservation and Preservation of Lahore Fort. She is also the executive director of Heritage Foundation and the Chairperson of Karavan Initiatives, both are organizations devoted to historic preservation.
Left to Right: Fatima Jinnah - Jinnah with women delegation - Razia Bhatti - Women for their rights - Raheela Gul
Women as Pilots: Presence of women in the aviation has not a new phenomenon since there have been a number of women pilots in the national flag carrier PIA since long. PIA has some 548 and 6 female pilots and Miss Shukriya Khanum was the first female pilot of PIA, who was awarded with the commercial pilot license (CPL) as back as 12 July 1959. However, the women pilots had generally been the co-pilots until 25 January - 2006 when a completely female crewed Fokker of PIA operated from Islamabad to Lahore & Multan. The team captained by Miss Ayesha Rabia (below left), co-pilot Sadia Aziz, and flight attendants Shazia Kauser and Tauseef Ashraf flew a Fokker Friendship F-27 Flight PK 632 from Islamabad to Multan via Lahore. The passengers on board did not know of the First in Islamic Countries' History - making crew till it landed at Lahore airport and the crew was garlanded by the local PIA staff for their land mark achievement. Captain Ayesha Rabia Naveed, 48, already has 6,000 hours' experience flying as a co-pilot with Pakistan International Airlines, now aims to captain larger jet airliners for the national carrier.
Now the women have gone a step further. It was like making history in Pakistan, when four women pilots formally joined Pakistan Air Force on 30 March 2006. Saba Khan, Nadia Gul, Mariam Halil and Saira Batool (above centre) were among 36 aviation cadets who received their wings after three and a half years of intensive training, breaking into all-male bastion of Pakistan armed forces. The then Vice-Chief of Army Staff General Ahsan Saleem Hayat, the chief guest on the passing out ceremony at the PAF Academy Risalpur said, "The four had shown the spirit and courage to rise above the ordinary and break new ground for others to emulate." When asked how did they feel about being a fighter pilot, one of the women pilots remarked, "I want to fly fighter jets and prove that girls can equally serve our country in the best possible manner as men are doing." Seen in photograph above (above right) are Bismah and Fatima packing their chutes after a successful para landing exercise near Risalpur.
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On the eve of 130th birth anniversary of Jinnah, the Founder of Pakistan and commonly known as Quaid-e-Azam, the cadets of Pakistan Military Academy mounted guard at the tomb of the father of the nation on 25 December 2006. But the highlights of the this special guard was that it also included 6 FEMALE CADETS INCLUDING ONE SIKH presently under training at the Military Academy. The president of Pakistan, who was also present on the occasion said that it was the effort of the government to provide equal rights to all, whether minorities or women as every Pakistani was being provided equal rights in line with the principles of Quaid-e-Azam. He lauded the performance of a Sikh cadet saying that for the first time the contingent of Pakistan Military Academy has girls and a Sikh cadet. He also added that he would like to get more of them in future and that he took the opportunity to say how alert and vigilant they all were looking.| The women athletes have shown their mettle in international sports events. In Pakistan’s female athlete Shabana Akhtar won two gold medals for long jump in the 1993 and 1995 SAF Games. Recently Naseem Hameed (left), the female member of Pakistani squad became the fastest women of South Asia in the 11th South Asian Federation (SAF) Games. The 22 years old clocked 11.81 seconds, 0.12seconds ahead of Sri Lanka’s Pramila Priyadarshani, and clinched the gold for her country in the women event of 100 meter race. Not only she became the fastest women of South Asia in the 11th South Asian Federation (SAF) Games, she also became the first female athlete to win the race in Pakistan's sports history. Another female member of the Pakistan squad Sara Nasir also bagged a gold in karate. The women cricket team of Pakistan, though in its infancy, is also showing promise in international matches and it would not be far when they too bring laurels for the country. |
| Adult literacy rates are 54.8% for men and 25% for women (Labour Force Survey 1996-97) and, especially, the literacy rate of women in rural areas (15%) is less than a third of that of women in urban areas (50%). Moreover, regardless of whether in cities and towns or farm villages, the older the age group is, the lower the literacy rate. The importance of women's education has begun to be recognized in recent years and the improvement of girls' enrolment rate in primary education is being stipulated as the most important task of the nation in the Social Action Plan. Literacy programs for adult women are being implemented utilizing books and posters, cassette tapes, radios, etc. by NGOs. Also, literacy education training for adult women and girls has been implemented with the support of UNESCO since 1988. To enhance the avenues for the women's financial status and to encourage them to undertake micro-financing, The First Women Bank was founded in 1989 by the Pakistani Government as the first financing organization for women. The promotion of financing for women is linked with the founding of small-to-medium sized enterprises and the improvement of income, and is contributing to the elevation of women's economic and social situation. The First Women Bank also implements training for the management of small-to-medium sized enterprises for illiterate women. In addition, it implements financing programs in areas far from urban areas cooperating with local NGOs. Moreover, small scale financing programs for low income women have been started in rural areas by public banking facilities such as Regional Development Finance Corporation and Agricultural Development Bank of Pakistan. Loan recovery rate is more than 90% and the reliability of financing for women has been substantiated. | ||||||||||||||||||
| There are a number of organizations, mostly managed and operated by women in Pakistan that are actively involved in raising the standard of living of women, specially the rural women, and addressing their pressing problems. One of these is Jazba.Org that narrates life and achievements of some of the women celebrities of Pakistan. Women Entrepreneur Information Network is another organization that provides information about women entrepreneurs in Pakistan  A Day in Life of Pakistan The 84th Academy Award ceremony was special for Pakistan - it was the day when Sharmeen Obiad Chinoy became the first Pakistani ever to win an Oscar for her country. Beaming and jubilant Sharmeen raised her Oscar award and proudly dedicated it to the women of Pakistan. She has won the Oscar for Best Documentary (in Short Subject category) 'Saving Face' which is about the menace of acid throwing in Pakistan, specially on women. She shares her award with the co-director of the documentary Daniel Junge. Read more about Sharmeen in the celebrity section. On night between 25-26 November 2011, the NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan, ostensibly the US troops and helicopters, attacked a Pakistan Army check post at Salala, Waziristan and as a result 26 soldiers including two officers were martyred. This is second such incident in which the NATO forces have targeted well established military posts of Pakistan on suspicion of being Taliban outposts. The incident has had since then a very negative fallout with the closure of NATO supply convoys from Pakistan. The US-Pakistan relations have also been on their dangerously lowest point with no visible signs of improvement as USA fails to apologies to Pakistan for this gruesome incident. 10th September 2010: Aisam ul Haq Qureshi of Pakitsan made history at US Open 2010 when he paired with Kveta Peschke of Czech Republic reached the final of mixed doubles. Although the pair lost the final, Aisam made history of being the first Pakistani ever to reach the final. Not on this, he paired with Indian Rohan Bopanna also reached the final of men's double and gave a superb performance of team play. However, their opponents, the Brayan brothers, winners of the men's double titile consecutively eight times previously won. But Aisam again made history of being the only Pakistani to have played the final of the men's double at US Open. It was a proud moment to see Pakistan national flag fluttering at the Arthur Ashe stadium for the first time in the history of US Open and Pakistan as well. Aisam surprised the audience with his emotional speech at the end of the men's double final when he said, “I feel there’s a very wrong perception of Pakistan as a terrorist country. We are a very peace-loving country and we want peace as much as you. Since September 11, every time I come to the States or Western countries, I feel people have the wrong impression about Pakistan as a terrorist nation. There are extremists I think in every religion but, just because of them, you can’t judge the whole country as a terrorist nation. I just want to get this message across as a Pakistani.†28th July 2010: At around 10 AM this morning, an airbus of air blue flight ABQ-ED 202 coming from Turkey via Karachi to Islamabad crashed on the slopes of Margalla Hills, overlooking the capital city Islamabad. The plane was carrying 146 passengers and six crew members on board. All aboard unfortunately could not survive. At the time of crash, the weather at Islamabad was heavily overcast and it was raining. Usually the landing approach to the Benazir International airport, Islamabad is much away from the Margalla Hills. But due to heavy low clouds, it is speculated that the pilot may have flown towards the Maragalla Hills and crashing in the process. But real cause of crash is too early to ascertain. Pakistan has declared a day of national mourning and the national flag will fly at half mast on 29 July to pay homage to the victims of the ill fated aircraft.
Guinness World Records - Most trees planted in 24 hours by a team of 300 People On Wednesday 15th July 2009 Guinness World Records Adjudicator Aadil Ahmed attended the world record attempt for the Most Amount of Trees Planted in 24 Hours by a Team. The event took place in Keti Bundar, Thatta District which is about 200km southeast of Karachi in Pakistan. The event was organized by the Ministry of Environment (Government of Pakistan) and was part of their planned initiatives to mark 2009 as the National Year of Environment in Pakistan. The event was in collaboration with the Forest Department Sindh and the National Bank of Pakistan. The team of 300 planters who consisted of local community members who had experiencing of working in the costal area were carefully selected and well prepared for the event. Due to nature of the land which was being used the planters knew they had a difficult task on their hands as they had to plant as many tress as they could before the tide came in, as once the tide was in planting would have to stop for a few hours. Mudflats were chosen as the location for this event as this is the best location for the type of tree which was planted. There were 15 teams consisting of 20 members, each team was given a dedicated portion of land to work on which was clearly marked out with flags. The event took place on 2 islands which were next to each other and a total of 795.85 acres of land were planted on for this record attempt. The event started at 6.45am and by 7.35pm it was all over, the previous record which was held by India who had planted 447,874 trees on 12-13 June 2009 and was achieved by the 21 JAT Regiment (Indian Army) at the Shrigram Reserve Forest in Dhubri, Assam, had been broken. Read More ...
21 June 2009 will be remembered as one of the happiest days of Pakistan history when amid threats of militants and suicide bombings, the Pakistan cricket team beat Sri Lanka by 8 wickets in the final of T20 Cricket championship at Lords cricket ground, UK. While bowling against Sri Lanka, the three wickets claimed by Abdul Razzaq put the Sri Lankan team off balance. Then came Kamran Akmal opening for Pakistan and scored very valuable 23 to give a good start to Pakistan. But it was Shahid Afridi whose impressive 54 runs made Pakistan win the coveted trophy - something Pakistan badly needed - a happy news after War on Terror and its ill effects on Pakistan. Read More ....
Photo courtesy AP/APTN and Arslan Sheikh
Pics Lahore Marathon - Courtesy the daily Dawn The third Lahore Marathon was held on 14 January 2007 at Lahore, in which some 30,000 men and women athletes, including 50 from 15 foreign countries, participated despite objections from some parties and groups over women's participation in the event. The Lahore international marathon, which was first held in 2005, also had 10-kilometre, five-kilometre (three miles) and three-kilometre races. The marathon carried a total cash prize of $115,000. The president, General Pervez, was also present on the occasion and said that Basant spring festival would also be celebrated in the same spirit. The 42.195 kilometers race was won by Ethiopian Kama Amressissa in 2 hours 15 minutes and 26 seconds, improving his previous year's record of 2 hours and 21 minutes. In the women event, Danoba of Ethopia reached the finishing line after 2 hours, 32 minutes and 54 seconds. Muhammad Azhar of Lahore won the wheel chair race, covering 3 kilometres distance in 13 minutes and 27 seconds. Noor won the visually impaired race.
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Efforts are now at hand to change and uplift the role and status of women in Pakistan. The Women's Division was founded in 1979 as the Women's Division of the Pakistani government. At the time of the Unite Nations Decade for Women, the Pakistan Government, which realized the necessity for the improvement of women's position, upgraded the Women's Division to the Federal Ministry of Women Development in 1989. It was merged with the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education and reorganized as the Federal Ministry of Women Development, Social Welfare and Special Education in the end of 1989. Among projects being implemented by MOWD, there are the establishments of community centres for women and the organizing of literacy rate improvement centres and cooperative associations. In order to promote women's participation in the development and to strengthen their roles by promoting equal opportunities for both sexes, etc. as urged in the Eighth Five-Year Plan, it is necessary for MOWD, as the supervisory organization, to enforce its organizational capability and provide the policy framework for promoting integration from the point of view of gender in the development processes from now on. There is a female federal minister who looks after the affairs of the women. 
The night between the 30th April and 1st May 2011 would be remembered by the world as a big victory in its War against Terrorism when a US heliborne operation attacked a big compound with high walls in the Bilal Town, Kakul, Abbottabad Pakistan and killed none other than the much sought and hunted Osama Bin Laden. The attack that lasted for forty minutes cost the US one Apache helicopter but it was worth the gain. The operation has however raised many an eyebrow both within and without Pakistan about Osama's presence just a few kilometers away from one of the prestigious Pakistan Military Academy and many a regimental centre of Pakistan Army. Both the Pakistan Army and ISI have showed their ignorance about Osama's presence so close to Kakul and also about the US operation, which they claim to have been a big surprise fort them. But many people don't buy this story and are skeptical about the entire gory episode. Only till will tell the real story and facts, but for now, OBL is dead and it is hoped his death will usher in peace rather than stepped up violence and militancy.
On 27 January 2011, a strange drama was staged in Lahore where an American, later known as Raymond David, killed two motorcyclists in an act of “self defence†near the Qartaba Chowk (Mozang Choongi) in bread daylight. Firing from inside his car, he fired 14 bullets through his car windscreen, killing both the motorcyclists instantly. He then got out of his vehicle and took photos of the dead from his mobile phone camera. Sensing gathering of people at the scene of incident, he immediately called for “backup†. When the backup came loaded with four other Americans, it crushed another motorcyclist to death and then fled from the scene. Raymond David is in police custody while it is feared that the other Americans have left Pakistan the same day. A new debate has sprang up about the American’s status, which the US Embassy claims to be that of a diplomat and the US is pressing hard on Pakistan to release its “diplomat†, while the said American has not been previously registered as a diplomat at the time of entry into Pakistan. The case is in the Lahore High Court and time will tell what becomes of the case. 
For the rest of the world, the modest achievement by Naseem Hameed, a female memeber of Pakistani athletes at South Asian Federation (SAF) Games recently may not be a big feat. But for Pakistan, it is a giant leap as for women athletes and women participation in international sports events is concerned. The 22 years old clocked 11.81 seconds, 0.12seconds ahead of Sri Lanka’s Pramila Priyadarshani, and clinched a gold medal for her country in the women event of 100 meter race. Not only she became the fastest women of South asia, she also became the first female athlete to win the race in Pakistan's sports history. It may be added that Pakistan’s Shabana Akhtar won two gold medals for long jump in the 1993 and 1995 SAF Games.In recognition to their superb performance and bagging golds, President Zardari appointed Nasim Hameed and woman karate master of South Asia Sara Nasir as Ambassadors for sports in Pakistan. A reward of Rs 1 million each has also been announced for Nasim and Sara. 
20th September 2008 was a sad day when a suicide bomber tried to storm the main building of the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad with his explosive laden dumper truck. At least 40 people were killed in a suicide truck bombing. The attack came just hours after new President Asif Ali Zardari - who faces a serious challenge in reining in Al-Qaeda and Taliban militants - delivered his first address to parliament, which is just a few hundred metres away. Smoke and flames were shooting out of several floors of the ruined hotel. An AFP photographer saw mutilated bodies amid the carnage, before police and fire officials pushed back the media in case the building came down. The powerful bomb left a huge crater, around 6m deep at the hotel's main entrance.
On Wednesday 29 October 2008, a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck Pakistan’s Balochistan province, killing at least 170 people and leaving thousands homeless. The earthquake hit northern and central parts of Balochistan affected 35,600 population among which 3,375 have been displaced, National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said. 200 houses were completely destroyed in 30 villages in Ziarat. The aftershocks of the earthquake further added to miseries of the survivors, which rattled their minds and caused more losses in the quake-stricken villages, the sources said, adding the survivors passed difficult times on Wednesday night on open grounds in the chilly weather. landslides in some parts of the quake-hit and mountainous areas caused roads blockade which further complicated the relief operation. 
Floods 2010
The worst floods of the century in Pakistan
 | Pakistan has had hardly recovered from the devastating earthquake of it history that struck its northern areas in 2005, that yet another calamity, much larger in magnitude hit Pakistan in July-August 2010. This time it was flash flood - floods that have never been witnessed or heard in the last 80-100 years in this part of the world. Although, there were indications of heavy monsoons this year, but keeping in view the rather dormant monsoon seasons over the past few years, the warning went rather unnoticed. And then the rains came. It started with the province of Balochistan, where rains, that came with the Cyclone Yemyin (03B), swelled the water courses with very fast currents, which swept away roads, mud houses and made countless homeless. While the local administrations and the government was tackling with the floods there, torrential rains hit the northern areas of Pakistan. The ferocity of the rains was so intense, that it broke all previous records. The unending rains caused the Munda Dam in the Swat Valley to overflow and later got damaged. This caused floods in the Swat Valley and adjoining areas. One can only see the video to know the intense speed of the muddy flood water. The rivers over flew and water gushed in from everywhere. The water entered the city of Bahrain, a tourist haven, and washed away the main bazaar along with some over 300 shops. Goods worth millions of rupees was also washed away. A large number of bridges made on gorges and rivers were also washed away, cutting all lines of communication with the upper areas, marooning a large number of helpless people. As if this wasn't enough. The Kabul River also swelled and ran into very high floods. and soon it hit the old garrison city of Nowshehra. Nowshehra is an old city with congested bazaars and shopping areas. Most of the business is run by the cloth merchants, who have shops in basements besides on main roads. The flood water not only entered the shops on main roads, but filled up the basements. It swept away the cloth costing millions beside rendering many around Nowshehra homeless. The mud houses in villages around the city were washed away and those which remained have been severely damaged beyond repairs (map left shows extent of damage by swollen Indus - courtesy BBC ) |
The flood waters then joined the River Indus, which was otherwise flowing in high floods and the roaring muddied flood moved towards its next victim - the Dera Ghazi Khan in the Punjab province. Since there haven't been any floods over the years, poor farmers with no lands had cultivated the land inside the dry bed of the river and had built homes. They were the first prey to the flood as the fast currents washed away everything that came its way. The flood continued down stream, eating away anything that came its way. Standing crops, mud houses and livestock were badly hit. Millions became homeless and ran away to safer places leaving all their lifetime belongings at the mercy of the flood water.
The protective bunds along the Indus gave away one after the other, inundating vast farmlands and villages and towns. Most of the bunds gave in to the extreme pressure of the flood water, while at many places, the bunds were deliberately breached to save larger cities and towns.
The water flows further south in the Sind province with much more speed and is causing more and more damage. The water discharge at a number of barrages built on the Indus River exceeded one million cusecs, that even threatened the decades old barrages. Balochistan which had faced the brunt in its initial phase, was subjected to more devastation when the broken bunds also caused flood water to enter the towns and villages adjoining the Sind province. At one stage the PAF base Shahbaz was also threatened. The towns of Sukkur, Shikarpur, larkana in Sind and Dera Murad Jamali in Balochistan are the worst hit. at the time of writing this post, the water still continues downstream with much more momentum and ferocity - bringing more damage and destruction to life and property.
As per the estimates of the United Nations, the number of people suffering from the massive floods in Pakistan exceeds 20 million â€" more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The total number of people affected in the three other disasters was about 11 million â€" 5 million in the tsunami and 3 million in each of the earthquakes. "The magnitude of the tragedy is so immense that it is hard to assess," said Pakistan's prime minister during a visit to the central Pakistani city of Multan. So far about 1500 people have succumbed to these deadly muddy waters, besides millions of animals and livestock. an area roughly 160,000 square kilometers has been affected by the floods. As per initial estimates structural damages are estimated to exceed $ 4 billion, and wheat crop damages are estimated to be over $ 500 million and the figures are rising as the water continues to engulf more and more lands downstream Indus.
Even after many days, rescue workers have been unable to reach up to 600,000 people marooned in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province's Swat Valley, where many residents were still trying to recover from last year's fight with the Taliban. Bad weather has prevented helicopters from flying to the area, which is inaccessible by ground. The plight of those who have survived is pathetic. The country's resources are far inadequate to handle devastation of such magnitude. Affected people lie in utter misery under the open sun, while a few lucky get shelter and food. One of the surviving victim lamented, "It would have been better if we had died in the floods as our current miserable life is much more painful." An old woman lamented, ''I have no utensils and no food for my children. I have no money. We were able to escape the floodwaters, but hunger may kill us.''
Now a few words about the rescue and relief operations. Right from the onset, the civil administration found it much beyond its capacity to handle this disaster. had it not been for the timely rescue operations by the Pakistan army, which was later joined by Pakistan Air Force and the Pakistan Navy, the people would have suffered much more and the casualties would have been unimaginable. The helicopters of army, navy and air force flew round the clock to rescue people who had found shelter on roof tops or high grounds. Where army helicopters and military could not go due to bad weather and inaccessibility of the northern areas, the army is using its mules to reach out to the marooned people.
The international relief effort so far has been woefully inadequate. Even the reaction of the international community to this one of the greatest disasters has been dismal and poor. While the immediate relief support in the form of tents, medicines and food items will ease some of the sufferings of the people, it would be the rehabilitation of the flood victims that would see the true test of humanity. Over a million houses need to be rebuilt from the scratch, thousands of kiolometers of roads and railway tracks will have to be re-laid. Countless number of bridges will have to be rebuilt while a large number of protective bunds will require plugging. There is an outbreak of water borne diseases and already dozens of children and women have died due to diseases like gastro. There are many pregnant women who need special care and attention right in the field.
The poor victims wait and see what the government of Pakistan with the help of international community does for their rehabilitation - they are keeping their fingers crossed as after a calamity is over, all is forgotten and no one really heals the wounds of the affected people who ultimately have to start afresh on their own to continue living once again - if you can call it living...
Disasters
Major Train Accidents and Aircraft Crashes
Islamabad 28th July 2010: At around 10 AM this morning, an airbus of air blue flight ABQ-ED 202 coming from Karachi to Islamabad crashed on the slopes of Margalla Hills, overlooking the capital city Islamabad. The plane was carrying 146 passengers and six crew members on board. All aboard unfortunately could not survive. At the time of crash, the weather at Islamabad was heavily overcast and it was raining. Usually the landing approach to the Benazir International airport, Islamabad is much away from the Margalla Hills. But due to heavy low clouds, it is speculated that the pilot may have flown towards the Maragalla Hills and crashing in the process. But real cause of crash is too early to ascertain. Pakistan has declared a day of national mourning and the national flag will fly at half mast on 29 July to pay homage to the victims of the ill fated aircraft.
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