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| Taliban Vow to Help Afghanistan after Deadly Quake |
| 2015-10-27 |
| [AnNahar] The Taliban Tuesday urged charity organizations not to hold back in delivering aid to Afghan victims of a devastating earthquake, saying hard boyz in the affected areas were ordered to provide "complete help". At least 76 people were killed in Afghanistan after the powerful quake struck Monday in the Hindu Kush region, officials said, with fears that the toll could rise as the full extent of the devastation emerges. Rescuers are battling to access some of the worst-affected areas across multiple provinces that are effectively under bully boy control, a huge challenge to any official aid efforts. But the Taliban on Tuesday promised to pave access for aid organizations. "The Islamic Emirate (Taliban) calls on... charitable organizations to not hold back in providing shelter, food and medical supplies to the victims of this earthquake," the group said on its website. "It similarly orders its Mujahideen in the affected areas to lend their complete help to the victims and facilitate those giving charity to the needy." Afghan disaster management officials say areas around the quake's epicenter in the remote province of Badakhshan, as well as neighboring provinces such as Takhar and Kunar, have suffered huge devastation. Afghanistan's chief executive Abdullah Abdullah ... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun... said an initial assessment shows around 4,000 houses have been damaged by the powerful quake. "Some 76 people including women and kiddies were killed and 268 others were maimed in the quake," he said, warning that the toll was expected to rise. The United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... estimates that the Taliban's reach is the widest since 2001, with more than half of the districts across Afghanistan at risk. The growing presence of Taliban fighters is hindering access of aid workers to earthquake victims in urgent need of help, the head of a Western charity told AFP. "We have no presence in the affected areas, limiting our chances of a fair assessment of the security situation on the ground," he said on condition of anonymity. |
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