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  • Nov 3rd, 2005
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The lukewarm response of rich countries to appeals for rescue of survivors of October 8 devastating earthquake is giving birth to a new feeling that Pakistan, who played a crucial role in the 'war against terror' is being ignored and ditched by those whom the Pakistani government served best despite difficult political conditions at home.

The felling of alienation is growing amongst the masses, but various social, political, religious and intellectual forums are raising voice against it.

Labour Party Pakistan (LPP) has flayed the cold response of well off countries toward appeals for increasing relief assistance in earthquake-hit areas and termed it traditional anti-poor attitude of capitalist regimes.

LPP's Executive Committee member Nasir Mansoor said the sluggish response of these rich countries was traditional in their anti-human dimension, which had left millions of people in Northern Pakistan at mercy of harsh living conditions.

International community should expedite the relief process prior to the arrival of cruel winter that was expected to kill millions of women and children, he said reiterating the fears of UN relief officials.

LPP had donated Rs5 million worth of relief goods in Bagh and Rawalakot up till now and was among the first to reach these areas even before army and Edhi, LPP said. The Church World Service (CWS) has also criticised the world community for ignoring appeals to provide quick relief aid to survivors of the earthquake victims in Pakistan.

The CWS said 20 days after the massive earthquake that wiped off villages form the face of earth and left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands of people living in remote mountainous areas cut off from the world, the world's failure to come up with quick cash to help save the survivors had left relief officials on the ground baffled and upset.

Copyright Pakistan Press International, 2005


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