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Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Secondary Navigation Top Stories Full Coverage Most Popular Photos Search Search: Fears for Pakistan quake children as disease spreads AFP - Saturday, November 1 WAM, Pakistan (AFP) - - Disease has begun to spread among earthquake survivors in southwest Pakistan on Friday, as the UN expressed fears for tens of thousands of children and women still desperately waiting for relief supplies. Aid began reaching devastated villages in mountainous Baluchistan province, more than two days after the 6.4-magnitude quake struck, killing up to 300 people and leaving 70,000 homeless, including 30,000 children. But angry villagers in remote areas said they desperately needed shelter, with thousands of people whose mud-brick homes were flattened facing a third night sleeping in the open in sub-zero temperatures. The UN Children's Fund said they and Pakistani government officials assessed the situation in the worst-hit districts and were "concerned about the urgent needs of children and women". "With winter closing in, the most urgent needs of the survivors are shelter, safe drinking water, food, warm clothing and emergency medical assistance," a UNICEF statement said. Clean water was a "priority", it said, adding that children were especially vulnerable to diseases such as diarrhoea and cholera. The district health officer of the stricken hill town of Ziarat, Ayub Kakar, told AFP that children were already suffering from exposure to the harsh conditions. "Due to the cold hundreds of children are being treated for pneumonia, abdominal diseases, diarrhoea and chest problems," he said. "We fear the death toll will rise. Such diseases, if not treated in time, are life-threatening," Kakar said. Children could be seen running after cars on the road adjoining the affected areas begging for food and drink, witnesses said. Residents in the quake-hit village of Khanozai, near Ziarat, blocked the main road in protest at the lack of relief goods despite government pledges to help them, an AFP reporter saw. "Our children are dying, help us," cried Mohammad Khan, the owner of an apple orchard. In another village, Ahmadoon, people said they were making tents from scavenged clothing. "No one from the government has so far inquired about our welfare," said Allah Noor, a teacher. "Our children could not sleep during the night because of the cold and continued tremors shaking the mountains. People do not go to their damaged houses even to take out food because they fear more tremors," Noor said. Military and paramilitary troops have provided more than 2,000 tents and 15 tonnes of food rations, Major General Mohammed Khan said, adding more would arrive in the coming days, but warned that reconstruction could take months. The US government said it was sending one million dollars in aid while 100 billion dollars had been pledged by Saudi Arabia. But on the ground, Islamist militant groups found favour in remote villages, distributing food, medicine and shelter, finding their strong faith a help in the deeply conservative area. One of them, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, has been listed by the United States as a "terrorist organisation" because it is the political wing of the outlawed Kashmiri militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba. The organisation was also among the first on the scene after the 2005 earthquake in northern Pakistan that killed 73,000 people. A Jamaat-ud-Dawa volunteer, who gave his name as Abu Abdullah, insisted however that they were not playing politics at a time of suffering and vulnerability. "We believe in serving people," said the 40-year-old, a veteran of the mujahideen insurgency against the Soviet army in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the Kashmir conflict, told AFP. "We are not doing any politics here and we are making every effort to provide relief to the survivors." Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Most Popular – Top Stories Viewed Japan joins wave of rate cuts as recession fears grow McCain, Obama step up battleground blitz Australian F1 race posts record financial loss BBC chief quits, star presenter suspended over offensive prank When men see red, they see hot: study View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology

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