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Pakistan celebrated its 63rd birthday yesterday. It

My dear friends, I turn to you when I’m desperate.  I just got back from Pakistan cutting short a Reality TV shoot up in Northern Pakistan where I witnessed the destructive force of nature at close quarters.  The devastation is unprescedented.  This is a crisis for the whole humanity which if not dealt with properly by the citizens of the world will have far reaching spiritual, political and economic repercussions.  I beg you to help.

A GREAT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS: FLOODS IN PAKISTAN

Pakistan disaster is the worst in the UN’s history. The United Nations has rated the floods in Pakistan as the greatest humanitarian crisis in recent history with more people affected than the South-East Asian tsunami and the recent earthquakes in Kashmir and Haiti combined.  Maurizio Giuliano, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said: “This disaster is worse than the tsunami, the 2005 Pakistan earthquake and the Haiti earthquake.” The comparison illustrates the scale of the crisis facing Pakistan as its inefficient and corrupt bureaucracy battles to mitigate the effects of the flooding. The disaster zone stretches from the Swat Valley in the north, where 600,000 people are in need of help, to Sindh in the south. Billions of pounds will be needed to rebuild affected areas but western nations have pledged only tens of millions in aid. Radical Islamic groups are jockeying to fill the vacuum left by government incompetence and relative international indifference.

CLEAN DRINKING WATER IS AN IMMEDIATE NEED. PEOPLE CAN SURVIVE WITHOUT FOOD AND SHELTER BUT NOT WITHOUT WATER.  BEING FORCED TO DRINK CONTAMINATED WATER OPENS UP MYRIAD OF WATER-BORNE ILLNESSES WHICH CAN TURN THISINTO AN EPIDEMIC.  PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY TO HELP US PROVIDE LIFESAVER JERRYCANS WITH BUILT-IN FILTRATION SYSTEM WHICH MAKES ANY WATER SOURCE DRINKABLE

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LETTER TO EDITOR
July 12th, 2010
 
World Football Cup
 
The mega event is over and Spain has lifted the coveted cup. What a stupendous spectacle of skills, talent, sportsmanship and discipline it was, not only of the players but of the huge huge throngs of spectators also?! One is amazed at the fool proof and flawless execution of the event and what all not must have gone into  planning and organizing such a world class event ?!! We can only marvel at it enviously. Whether we like it or not, we have to admit that we the 6th most populous nation of the world and the 7th nuclear power are, what to talk of hosting such an event are not even fit enough to qualify and participate in it. What a shame? What do these tiny countries have that we don

It is perhaps the second army general in the United States army after Douglas MacArthur that has been forced out of command for a conduct that is considered inconsistent with the laid down mandate of an army general fighting in the battlefield.
The comment made by Gen McChrystal and his staff in an interview with the Rolling Stone magazine

VIEW: New zones for militancy