久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

  Home>News Center>World
         
 

U.N. may scale back quake-zone deliveries
(AP)
Updated: 2005-11-03 21:31

The World Food Program warned Thursday that it may be forced to scale back vital aid flights for victims of the South Asia quake within days if it does not receive more donations.

The commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan said during a visit to the hard-hit city of Muzaffarad that the U.S. military would keep up its work on behalf of victims for months. American helicopters and troops have been diverted from Afghanistan to quake-recovery efforts,

"It's a huge effort, it's got to be a sustained effort, and we're here with our Pakistani friends, with our allies, working as a team to get this massive mission done," Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry said.

The U.N. food program warned last week that without more donor money it would soon be forced to reduce — or halt altogether — helicopter flights to areas affected by the Oct. 8 quake, which killed about 80,000 people and left more than 3 million homeless.

"As we stand, we just can't carry on flying these things. It'd be safe to say that within the next three or four days, we'll have to look at scaling back," Robin Lodge, spokesman for the WFP, said Thursday.

The agency, which would like to have 22 helicopters in the air but so far has only 17, has asked for $100 million for relief efforts over the next six months, but donors have supplied only a tenth of that, Lodge said.

The flights fan out in Pakistan's portion of Kashmir, where the quake was centered, to rugged mountain towns where helicopters can provide the only access to thousands of residents whose survival is becoming increasingly precarious as winter approaches.

Survivors among the region's overwhelming Muslim population flocked to food markets to prepare for Eid, the Muslim celebration that follows the fasting month of Ramadan and was expected to start Friday depending on sightings of the moon.

But there was little splurging on the new clothing, toys and sweets customarily purchased this time of year.

"Very few people are buying and they're only buying basic necessities," such as cooking oil, flour, and bread, said Shujuat, 25, the co-owner of a general store on the outskirts of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan's portion of Kashmir.

"We feel grief and pain in our hearts, and we're just thinking about how to get by," said Shujuat, who goes by one name only.

The quake also devastated the portion of Kashmir controlled by India, though far less than Pakistan, and the disaster brought the two nuclear-armed rivals closer in a time of need. In a landmark agreement, they plan to open five crossing points along their heavily fortified frontier on Monday to allow Kashmiris to visit relatives and get aid at relief camps at the border.

On Thursday, India announced that it cleared the main road leading the frontier; it remains blocked on the Pakistani side because of landslides unleashed by the 7.6-magnitude quake.

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anthony Wayne said overnight that the United States would be "standing with Pakistan in the long run" in reconstruction efforts. U.S. teams will begin arriving in Pakistan over the weekend to assess its needs, based on reports by World Bank and other development agencies.

Wayne said Pakistan has estimated it needs $5 billion in "near-term" relief. He did not say how much Washington was prepared to contribute, but noted that the U.S. has so far committed $156 million for relief and reconstruction and that American citizens have donated an additional $40 million.

Pakistan's government in Wednesday raised the official death toll from the quake to 73,000 — from the previous count of 57,597 — after more bodies were retrieved from debris, bringing the central government's figures closer to the number reported by local officials.

Officials in Pakistan's part of Kashmir and North West Frontier Province say the quake killed at least 79,000 people in Pakistan. In Indian-controlled Kashmir, an additional 1,350 people died.



US pays last respect to Rosa Parks with mourn and sangs
Riots in Paris suburb
Holy month of Ramadan ends
 
  Today's Top News     Top World News
 

World Bank raises China's growth forecast to 9.3%

 

   
 

Prosecutor: Bribe-givers to be blacklisted

 

   
 

Bush to visit China mid-November

 

   
 

China: North Korea nulear talks resume Nov 9

 

   
 

Two billion yuan earmarked to control bird flu

 

   
 

CIA uses secret prisons abroad: report

 

   
  Riots put French government under pressure
   
  U.S. releases flu pandemic strategy
   
  Senate's 'Gang of 14' fractures over Alito
   
  Six GIs killed in Iraq; 20 die in bombing
   
  US, France, China jump-start bird flu efforts
   
  Iran continuing purge of reformers
   
 
  Go to Another Section  
 
 
  Story Tools  
   
  News Talk  
  Are the Republicans exploiting the memory of 9/11?  
Manufacturers, Exporters, Wholesalers - Global trade starts here.
Advertisement
         
主站蜘蛛池模板: 91精品免费高清在线 | 日本一区二区三区四区不卡 | 国产高清在线精品一区 | 亚洲国产天堂久久九九九 | 可以免费看黄色的网站 | 欧美叫床戏做爰无遮挡 | 日韩一级特黄毛片在线看 | 国产精品人伦久久 | 在线视频观看国产 | 久久国产精品99久久小说 | 欧美成人影院 在线播放 | 在线视频中文字幕 | swag国产精品一区二区 | 国产成人99精品免费观看 | 国产粗大猛烈18p | 一区二区三区四区产品乱码伦 | 国产成人91高清精品免费 | 91精品国产一区二区三区四区 | 毛片一级做a爰片性色 | 成人在免费观看视频国产 | 精品久久国产 | 国产亚洲一区二区精品 | 国内精品久久久久久久久 | 中国女人真人一级毛片 | 国产日产欧产精品精品推荐在线 | 看全黄男人和女人视频 | 成人自拍网 | 国产美女精品一区二区三区 | 亚洲精品一区亚洲精品 | 免费观看a黄一级视频 | 亚洲性久久久影院 | 丝袜美腿精品一区二区三 | 国产日韩精品在线 | 久草国产在线播放 | 在线视频一区二区三区四区 | 香蕉久久夜色精品国产2020 | 欧美一级艳片视频免费观看 | 三级毛片免费观看 | 欧美三级 欧美一级 | 欧美一级一级片 | 天堂在线亚洲 |