Quake day!!! [What made it worst]

A lot has happened since October 08. Although the collapsed towers were a tragedy but it appeared to be nothing when reports started coming in from northern Pakistan. As i write, casualty speculations have gone passed 100,000 mark with Mr.Edhi claiming it to be a further multiple of 3.

May Allah shower his mercy on all.

The countrymen have shown their feelings and what appeared to be a group people living together have expressed their nationalism. Wrong are the people who say that Jinnah was able to get a country but failed to make a nation.

Everyone i know has contributed whatever they could. Time, money, food stuff, ideas....everything.

However, the situation is still grim. A UN spokesman excepted that the task is far more intense and tough than the Tsunami which hit far east earlier this year. The reason is that it was coastal area through out and whatever damage done was by nature in one go. People who lived the incident had better chances of living as aid was reaching fast with the areas being accessable. [ I dont mean to say that it was a samll incident by any means]

Here on the other ther are numerous issues.

• One is that the road access has either been blocked or completly damaged due to the land slides which occoured as a result of the quake. So it took a lot of time to open those up. Meanwhile the source of any effort was limited to the army choppers.
  

• Two. The army has a limited supply of cargo hilos as per their requirement. Plus tension is Waziristan and on the Afghan border has also kept the army busy on the western side of the country. It is also said that the army itself suffered serious losses in Kashmir due to the quake and the first thing done was to secure the border once again. [With the distruction magnitude there are reasons to accept this theory as well]
  

• Three. I have been to these places and there are villages where no road leads to. People have to walk there and one who has been doing this since birth takes around 2 hours to reach on foot. Imagine someone belonging to Karachi or Lahore trying to reach there in these conditions where even the paths which the locals followed are not available. Plus there are a lot of places with only a few hundred people living in very remote areas.
  

• Four. There are such valleys where even choppers cant reach. There are!!!
  

• Five. The weather is getting severe day by day. By getting colder it has helped in the prevention of deseases but survival has become even more tough for the injured. UN has said that 300000 tents are required for the effected people but i think that by the time they arrange for that conditions will make those tents virtually ineffective.
  

• Six. It rained heavily there almost the same day. And belive me when it rains there in this weather its not easy to live there in the open. Let alone the fact the you are injured and have most probably lost a family member.
  

• Seven. The administration has also been wiped off. No one would expect an officer to camp and try to manage situation where his wife and 2 children are under the rubble and assumingly alive. This is just one case. Almost everyone faced similar tragic cases.

I am not defending the government in any sense. Just trying present facts which have made it a challange not only for Pakistanis but for the entire world community.....