Relentless rain triggered landslides and roof collapses across northern Pakistan, leaving at least 67 people dead, officials and reports said on Wednesday. At least 37 survivors…
Before the massive earthquake that laid waste to a swathe of South Asia on October 8 last year, Assia Begum had four children. A few terrifying minutes afterwards, she had nine.…
A Red Cross helicopter crashed while ferrying food to earthquake survivors in Pakistan-administered Kashmir on Thursday, injuring the two South African crew members, officials…
United Nations helicopters resumed vital relief flights to quake-hit parts of Pakistan on Wednesday after being suspended for three days by heavy rain and snow, officials said.…
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…
Earthquake survivors in Pakistan said on Thursday they fear for their future as a bitter winter intensifies and their life in makeshift tent camps becomes more miserable with…
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…
United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan appealed on Thursday to donors to give generously for victims of the October 8 earthquake, as Kashmiri civilians were poised to cross…
Thirty thousand quake-hit families in Pakistan’s wintry mountains are being taught to build shelters from the rubble of their homes under a new United Nations programme launched…
Doctors have begun immunising more than one million children against infectious diseases in crowded camps for Pakistani earthquake survivors, as rivals Pakistan and India move…
Pakistani police using canes and rifle butts broke up a march on Friday by earthquake survivors protesting what they said were orders to evict them from a makeshift refugee camp.…
Health workers rushed to contain an outbreak of acute diarrhoea among hundreds of earthquake survivors at a squalid tent camp, and the Pakistani army appealed to donors on…
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Friday accused the West of double standards for failing to meet the country’s quake aid needs, adding that he will delay buying United…
Quake survivors massed in debris-strewn fields to pray and mark a normally joyous Muslim festival in a somber tone on Friday as preachers called South Asia’s devastating…
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…
Pakistan and India agreed on Sunday to an unprecedented opening of their heavily militarised border in disputed Kashmir to help victims of the devastating October 8 earthquake.…
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…
Pakistan’s army was flying geologists to an isolated north-western valley on Tuesday to investigate reports of possible volcanic activity after the massive October 8 earthquake,…
More help arrived in quake-hit Pakistan on Monday as the United Nations warned that time is running out for survivors of the worst catastrophe in the country’s history. ”We are…
The international community failed to grasp the scale of the South Asian earthquake and more than two weeks after the disaster, the response is still not enough, a United Nations…
