I can very well understand an illitrate or an emotional person making comments such "God has punished us with earthquake.." but i never thought the the readers of rediff will also fall in the line with this stupidity. We all know why earthquakes happen, also the fact that Indian subcontinant has now become a earthquake pron area by way of natural causes. So we should be ready more such disasters. Coming to PUNISHMENT part of it... Can some of you enlightned souls explain to me why 1000's of INNOCENT CIVILLIANS on both side of LOC are punished for crimes of handfull of terrorists or politicians? Is the GOD or ALLAH that ignorant or arrogant that he will unlish hiw wrath on those who have done no evil themselves? So please stop this nonsense and lets understand and prepare for nature's fury which effects us all equally....
Still I am not able to brush aside my doubt that if an earthquake could be created by the latest & advanced scientific researches and Pak has created one on Jan 26th 2001 on India, has India returned the coin very late on Oct 8th 2005 ?
Whosoever has written this article has understood one thing that human misery knows no boundries and the people in Pakistan should now know this very well. They have been killing innocent people and children all over the World and India in particular for last so many Years in the name of Jehad. When Indian people have respected their faith. Their undeclared unholy war has not been liked by the almighty and he has killed over 50,000 killed in one stroke. I will like "Mr. Mushraff should stay" so that the God or the bhagwan or the khuda will destroy his (Mr. M's.)machinery of tyranny with his (God's) own hands, so that no more meaningless jehads take place which advocte killing of innocent people just because they follow a different faith. If U (Editor) do not post this message do write ur comments to me. Did U like it or not.
It is indeed a tragedy that such an earth quake has struck the people of J&K and adjoining areas of Pakistan and India. Our heartfelt sympathies for the people families which have been affected by the disaster. It is unfortunate but true that Pakistan devoted most of its time to terrorist training, waging wars and related activities rather were to social and infrastructure development. And that weakness gets exposed in times as this. But I also remember Pakistani president accepting (in an Press conference)that the reason why Pakistan wants J&K ultimately is that it is a piece of real estate that it wants.It considers J&K as real estate which must come to it rather than India. And the people of Pak Occupied Kashmir would have realised by now how Pakistan treats them. Pakistan does not care if they live or die. As admitted by its President, it is the land of J&K that Pakistan is interested in. And therefore the relief efforts of other Pakistanis towards the calamity that struck POK will be influenced by these considerations. C V R Bharati
it is a pity that both pakistn and india were victims of earth quake.Nut as any one can see the effects are not as serious as on e happened in india few years ago or the one in 93in maharashtra.Now pakistan is claiming sympathy from world community and increasing their figure everyday what is reality When pak can stand on thier own and stop living om charity.May be thgree thoiusand are not dead. Even twin tower fell so many die the way pak is claiming. what a tragedy
It is heartening to note that the president of pakistan understood instantly what he was being told.. to let the workers do the rescue work instead of the rescue work being jeopardised by his visit. Hopefully in India too the politicians adear to this. They can't even lift a stone, and are not trained to supervise rescue work.. so why go at the site of disaster? Their visit only delays the rescue work by precious hours in which many people trapped may die. Let them address and calm other people and see that relief works are being carried at a fast pace and that no corruption is there during such times of crisis. Any official found making money from such disasters should be immediately hanged.
I have read what the contributor has written. It is very much an account of a layman who is not aware how these search and rescue operations are conducted. The debris could not be removed by heavy lifting gear as it could disturb the whole mound of collapsed material and endanger the lives of those persons who were trapped but were alive. We did not hear any one saying to the President to go away.
Earthquakes do not give any warning and because of landslides and heavy rain and the vast area affected by this catastrophic happening it takes time to put all logistics together to help the victims.
RE:Eyewitness account in Islamabad
by Muslim on Oct 17, 2005 04:10 PM Permalink
For your kind information. A catastrophe similar to this killing something like 40,000 people also came to Gujrat. Why did that happen. You are point less. These things happen all over the world. Katrina, Rita are the first examples. And talking of killing innocent people, under which law 2,000 muslims were burnt in gujrst..........speak now. Or are you speechless.
