A Pakistani military offensive has killed up to 700 militants in the past four days, and the operation will proceed until the last fighter is ousted.
Helicopters were launched on Thursday to airdrop urgent relief aid to some of the more than 400Â 000 people battered by monsoon-spawned flooding in coastal areas of Pakistan, officials said. Many of the stricken were living in higher open areas or atop the roofs of buildings to escape the floodwaters.
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/ 2 December 2005
Aid officials warned on Friday that almost all of the hundreds of thousands of tents they distributed to survivors of Pakistan’s massive earthquake last month aren’t adequate for the harsh winter, while Pakistan announced soldiers have built 30 000 shelters for the 3,5-million people who lost their homes.
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/ 28 November 2005
The onset of winter claimed the lives of at least two earthquake survivors on Monday — the first confirmed victims of what officials fear will be a new disaster for the 3,5-million Pakistanis who lost their homes last month. More than 100 people were brought to hospitals with hypothermia and respiratory diseases.
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/ 4 November 2005
At least 60 people on their way to a memorial died on Friday when their overloaded ferry capsized in the Arabian Sea off southern Pakistan, a navy spokesperson said. The accident occurred near the remote coastal town of Kharo Chao, about 180km south-east of the port city of Karachi.
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/ 2 November 2005
The official death toll in Pakistan from the mammoth October 8 earthquake has jumped to more than 73 000, with about the same number listed as severely injured. Meanwhile, the United States military resumed relief flights in northern Pakistan on Wednesday after one of its choppers allegedly came under attack.
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/ 29 October 2005
Arch-rivals India and Pakistan started talks on Saturday on an unprecedented opening of their disputed Kashmir border to help the relief effort for victims of the massive earthquake believed to have killed up to 80 000 people, officials said on Saturday. The latest in hundreds of aftershocks struck early on Saturday.
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/ 18 October 2005
Thousands of injured people languished without shelter and medical care on Tuesday in villages across the earthquake-stricken region of Kashmir and authorities warned that exposure and infections could drive the death toll up from 54 000 as the harsh Himalayan winter looms.
A powerful bomb exploded at a Shiite Muslim mosque packed with worshippers in the southern port city of Karachi on Friday, killing at least 14 people and wounding scores of others in a suspected suicide attack, police and hospital officials said. Bits of flesh and pools of blood lay all around as rescue workers tended to the wounded.