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| Afghanistan-Pak-India |
| Pakistan aid 'totally inadequate' |
| 2005-10-21 |
| Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf says the amount of foreign reconstruction aid pledged after the South Asia quake is "totally inadequate". Mr Musharraf told the BBC that about $620m had been promised, but that Pakistan needed about $5bn to rebuild devastated areas. An estimated three million people in Pakistan lack adequate shelter. The UN has appealed for urgent help to avoid a massive second wave of deaths over the fierce Himalayan winter. It is asking Nato to stage a massive airlift of those without shelter, and says the quake is the worst logistical nightmare it has ever faced. Mr Musharraf said it was likely that Pakistan would need to build 500,000 new homes. BOOO HOOO... |
| Posted by:Slailing Spineth2383 |
| #6 We could cut costs tremendously by |
| Posted by: Zenster 2005-10-21 20:35 |
| #5 So what's the deal here? Does the rest of the world somehow owe him aid to his satisfaction?? Sheesh.... |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-10-21 20:15 |
| #4 3 Billion for the F-16s 1 Billion for the Eyrie-AWACS There's your reconstruction aid right there... |
| Posted by: john 2005-10-21 17:41 |
| #3 How I'm supposed to fight Indian kuffars without money? |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2005-10-21 17:27 |
| #2 Once, in my misspent youth, I clipped the decorative thin metal shroud covering the base of a light pole in a parking lot. There was a visible dent in the shroud but my bumper wasn't damaged. I left contact information at the unmanned exit booth and notified my insurance company - and they sent one of their people out to photograph it and contact the building mgmt / owners. Well, a lot of time passed before we heard from them about the matter. In fact, I presumed they had found the damage insignificant and had dropped the matter. Silly me. When we heard back from them, they were demanding over $35,000 in compensation. It turned out they had replaced the shrouds of all the light poles, on all levels of the parking structure, with four concrete-filled pipes, sunk into the deck, to prevent a vehicle from actually striking the pole -- and they were trying to stick my insurance company with the bill for the lot. ALL of the new pole protectors, all of the materials, all of the manhours, and even the design costs of this new "improved" scheme. But we had photographs. Not quite the legendary 27 8x10 color glossy photographs with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining... blah³, but more than enough for an honest judge. They were literally thrown out of his courtroom, or so the agent told me, between fits of laughter. Why am I getting this It's deja vu all over again! feeling? Musharraf, baby, shit-can the AWACS and all your other military wet-dreams, d00d, you can't afford them, now. You have a mess to clean up. Your mess. We'll help, but... We should never accept any help, whatsoever, not one thin dime or pump or anything else for Katrina or any other disaster that occurs. Doing so encourages every asshat on the planet to think they have open call on us for everthing that happens around the world. And a LOT happens around the world. Every day. |
| Posted by: .com 2005-10-21 10:21 |
| #1 It is the will of Alan because they protect that heretic, USAMA BIN LADEN. Cause -> effect. See, we can play that game too. :) |
| Posted by: Anginemp Hupolurong7319 2005-10-21 09:43 |