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Kandahar

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

world in brief Afghan official, 2 others killed in vehicle bombing Dec 3, 2005
Indianapolis Star, ...on a road in the Shawali Kot district north of Kandahar, deputy district ... Tokyo -- A strong offshore earthquake rocked northern Japan late Friday night, the ...

PAKISTAN: SILENT CRACKDOWN ON HARDLINE ISLAMIST GROUPS Dec 1, 2005
AKI, Shahzad) - Struggling with an enormous task after the 8 October earthquake, the Pakistani ... After the Taliban retreated from Kabul and Kandahar in 2001, and many ...

Summary of today's meeting of the General Assembly Nov 29, 2005
ReliefWeb (press release), ...by Afghanistan to Pakistan following the tragic 8 October earthquake. ... had already established a multi-disciplinary Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar. ...

Musharraf to visit Kuwait, Yemen from Dec 3 Nov 28, 2005
Pakistan Link, In the aftermath of earthquake, Kuwait announced relief assistance of 100 million ... also pointed out that four Pakistani workers were killed in Kandahar on 15th ...

Stead Guard helps out Pakistani people victimized by devastating ... Nov 4, 2005
Pahrump Valley Times, KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two days after the recent massive earthquake hit Pakistan, the Nevada National Guard arrived to help out. ...

AFGHANISTAN: A Rebuilding Plan Full of Cracks Nov 20, 2005
CorpWatch.org, The drive to build earthquake-resistant buildings led to other, more widespread ... Last spring, in the southern province of Kandahar, the organization had nearly ...

World Briefs Nov 17, 2005
Salem News, ...a bomber attacked a US military convoy in the southern city of Kandahar, killing three ... for more than $5 billion in aid to rebuild the earthquake-ravaged north ...

Taliban kill 7 police, kidnap 2 others Nov 10, 2005
MSNBC Colt reports on the earthquake in South Asia, where the death toll nears 80,000 and more than half of the dead may be children. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Rebels ...

The Almanac: Today is Monday, Nov. 21 Nov 15, 2005
Monsters and Critics.com, In 1980, an earthquake in Naples, Italy, killed 4,800 people ... In 2001, hundreds of Marines arrived in Afghanistan near the southern city of Kandahar in the first ...

Osama: Dead Again Nov 5, 2005
uruknet.info, Bin Laden was campaigning at Bamiyan, fell very ill, returned to Kandahar where he ... much from the former CIA asset, Shrader tells us "the earthquake in Pakistan ...

Crocodile tears, once again Nov 5, 2005
Asian Tribune, IC 814, to be released in that infamous swap on the tarmac of Kandahar airport. ... Instead of worrying for the victims of the earthquake that had brought immense ...

Maverick filmmakers reveal Iranians' plight, courage Nov 5, 2005
Boston Globe, Mohammad Ahmadi with a screenplay by the revered Mohsen Makhmalbaf (''Kandahar"). ... 90 minutes spent sifting through the rubble of a powerful earthquake. ...


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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
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International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies -- (800) HELP-NOW
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