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Himalaya

A 7.6 earthquake hit the Pakistan-India border region on the 8th of October, 2005. Recent news articles mentioning Himalaya .

A snapshot of aid and impediments high in the Himalaya Nov 14, 2005
Reuters AlertNet, ...day will not end as it was planned, that in itself is typical in this massive operation to provide shelter across a region devastated by last month's earthquake ...

Asking for a little earthquake help Nov 10, 2005
Aspen Daily News, ...official death toll from the earthquake in Pakistan is now 74,000 and expected to go much higher. Part of the area affected was in the Himalaya mountain region ...

Berg Adventures Everest fall update and quake study re-run: 60% of ... Nov 6, 2005
Mounteverest, ...earthquakes. In fact more than 60% of the Himalaya may be ready for a great earthquake. We do not know when these large events will occur. ...

UAE Armed Forces team dispatches relief supplies to isolated ... Nov 23, 2005
WAM - Emirates News Agency, ...in Pakistan has dispatched an emergency relief supplies to the displaced people in the Pakistani villages of the Himalaya range, isolated by the earthquake. ...

Expert rings earthquake alert Nov 13, 2005
Calcutta Telegraph, The Northeast is located in the Eastern Himalaya syntaxis and the Indo-Burmese arc ... forecast for the region and that had proved right with an earthquake in 1988. ...

All-night vigil for Pakistan quake victims Nov 22, 2005
Palo Alto Online, ...continuing relief efforts for survivors of the earthquake in the face of lagging worldwide relief efforts and approaching winter in the remote Himalaya region.

Show quake victims they are not alone Nov 5, 2005
Xinhua, More than 3.3 million homeless in the earthquake-hit region have yet to ... weeks left before the frigid winter comes to the mountainous Himalaya region, where the ...

World 'fails to grasp' scale of Pakistan disaster Nov 3, 2005
ABC Online, ...of the funds needed in Pakistan to help victims of last month's earthquake. ... have had their lives and their homes devastated in the Himalaya mountains, before a ...

Pakistan faces winter of death and despair Nov 19, 2005
Sunday Herald, ...village of Mahar, which lies almost 10,000ft up in the Himalaya, and where I ... girl are her grandchildren, and that their parents were killed in the earthquake. ...

Kashmiris celebrate LoC opening Nov 8, 2005
Daily Times, Movement, Bashir Asad Bagri, the central chairman of the Himalaya Freedom Movement ... s special programme for the rehabilitation of the earthquake survivors will ...

Quake survivors gather in rubble for Id prayers Nov 4, 2005
The Tribune, ...a sombre tone today as preachers called South Asia’s devastating earthquake a test ... in efforts to deliver the much-needed aid ahead of the Himalaya region’s ...

Pakistan, India Open Kashmir Crossings Nov 14, 2005
Prensa Latina, 7.6-degree earthquake on the Richter scale has killed over 86,000 people and wounded 100,000 in northern Pakistan and Kashmir. In the Himalaya region, nearly ...


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The Pakistani Red Crescent
The mission of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society as the leading non-governmental humanitarian organization, is to ameliorate the suffering of the most vulnerable people in distress without discrimination of nationality, race, religious belief, class, or political opinion.

Islamic Relief
Islamic Relief (IR) is an international relief and development charity, which aims to alleviate the suffering of the world’s poorest people. It is an independent Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) founded in the UK in 1984 by Dr Hany El Banna.

Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international independent medical humanitarian organization that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural and man-made disasters, and exclusion from health care.

Oxfam International
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together with over 3,000 partners in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering and injustice.

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies -- (800) HELP-NOW
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is the world's largest humanitarian organization, with 181 member National Societies. All our work is guided by seven fundamental principles; humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity and universality.


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