Aid agency Oxfam on Wednesday criticised western governments for giving too little too late to quake-stricken Pakistan as donor countries prepared to meet at the United Nations in Geneva to rally rescue efforts.

Oxfam said many rich countries had donated less than what it called their "fair share" and others nothing at all, while thousands of survivors were stranded in some of world's most rugged mountains without shelter or food as winter approached.

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