Pakistan: Earthquake Disaster: Northeast Pakistan, Kashmir, India experience heavy-duty Quake - world rallies relief, offers

Over 20,000 persons are said to have died in the 7.6-Richter-scale Earthquake. Thousands are thawt still to lay buried under the debris, yet some of the buried are undoubtedly still alive -- as the report just minutes ago on Fox News tells of a boy just dug out alive, and then how his mother too emerged from the apparent grave of rubble. Pakistan's Prez Musharraf has appealed for donors of goods to put their priority on food, blankets and helicopters. The USA is deploying Blackhawk choppers to aid and rescue in the remote mountain towns of northern Pakistan, and India which has also been hit by the quake, but not as extensively, is sending assistance to its erstwhile enemy, Pakistan. A dozen other countries have quickly responded to help amid the Quake disaster.

If readers of refWrite want to send money to help in the Pakistani disaster-relief project, we are supplying the link to the American Red Cross (this ARC newspage gives an excellent map of the quake's epicentre in Pakistan's north), affiliated with the Red Crescent agency on the ground in the country. Also see ARC's summary-&-donation page. - Owlb