NOWSHERA DISTRICT IN MEDIA

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, September 7 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has been in Pakistan today, highlighting the suffering of millions of flood victims and the need for continuing aid for the displaced. Jolie is travelling as the personal envoy of UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres. On Tuesday she visited Mohib Banda village in northwest Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and areas near Peshawar, including the Azakhel Afghan refugee settlement and the Jalozai camp for internally displaced people (IDP). Read the rest of this entry »

PESHAWAR: Corps Commander Peshawar, Lieutenant General Asif Yasin Malik on Monday said that rescue operations have been completed in the flood-hit areas of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa as around 100,000 stranded people have been moved to safe locations. Talking to the media, he said that 65 relief and 58 medical camps are working under the aegis of the army with an objective to provide quick assistance and medical help to flood affected people. Read the rest of this entry »

Agitated people disrupted Eid Musical show that was arranged for flood affectees. They held hostage the police party and occupied the musical instruments and cameras of private TV channels. According to District Police Officer (DPO) Nisaar Tanoli, angry mob of people disrupted the Eid Show, which was being held in Government College of technology Khandar relief camp. Read the rest of this entry »

Nagina drew her modest light-green cotton dupatta, the scarf that Pakistani women drape over their arms, head and chest, up over her face as she cautiously peered out from a muddy white tent to watch her youngest child, a barefoot, trouserless four-year-old boy in a navy blue shirt streaked with mud. The timid Pathan woman has four other children, three older girls and a boy, but her daughters are not with her in this overcrowded cluster of tents known as the Khandar relief camp in Nowshera, a flood-devastated northwestern district some 90 miles west of the capital Islamabad in the insurgency-plagued, religiously conservative Khyber Pakhtunkwa province. “We are trying to keep the girls away,” Nagina says, “because parda is impossible now.” Read the rest of this entry »

NOWSHERA: When water gushed through the district headquarters hospital (DHQ) here last month, it filled operating rooms and wards, leaving them clogged with stinking mud, and forced patients to leave, even those unfit to move. Two doctors evacuating the sick had to be airlifted to safety after getting trapped on the top floor of the district hospital, the main source of health care for 1.6 million people in the district. Read the rest of this entry »

Peshawar: Chairman Pakistan People’s Party (Sherpao), Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao has underlined the need for taking effective measures for the rehabilitation of the flood affectees and improvement of economy. He said that concerted efforts were required to combat these challenges and provide relief to the affectees.   He said this while addressing a gathering on the occasion of distribution of relief packages amongst the flood affectees under the auspices of ‘Sherpao Foundation’ at Nowshera. Read the rest of this entry »

By Mark Iype, Postmedia News September 3, 2010

A month after torrential rains caused rivers to overflow and flood Pakistan’s fertile valleys scattering millions of people and creating one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, the water is beginning to recede, revealing a disaster that will take years to resolve, says the head of one of Canada’s largest relief organizations. Read the rest of this entry »

NOWSHERA (Pakistan) -WHEN water gushed through Nowshera hospital last month it filled operating rooms and wards, left them clogged with stinking mud and forced patients to leave, whatever their condition.

Two doctors evacuating the sick had to be airlifted to safety after getting trapped on the top floor of the district hospital, the main source of health care for 1.6 million people in Pakistan’s impoverished north-west.

‘Eighty per cent of the hospital staff were affected themselves. The water had destroyed their homes, cars and everything. No one was able to come to hospital,’ said the hospital’s chief doctor, Muhammad Arshad.

But since the ruin, caused by monsoon-triggered floods which swept across the country, a massive volunteer undertaking has allowed the hospital to reopen, and Mr Arshad now sits smiling on donated furniture in his freshly whitewashed office. The walls that were blackened and buried in mud for a week are now a hygienic white, there are working heart-monitor, X-ray, ultrasound and anesthesia machines, and the damaged water pipe has been replaced. Read the rest of this entry »

ALLEGED HIJACKING SCENE OUTSIDE ISLAMABAD CRASH OF AIRBUS 320 OUTSIDE ISLAMABAD NOW BELIEVED HIJACKED, HEADING FOR NUKE FACILITY
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

August 29, 2010 Islamabad, Pakistan (Veterans Today exclusive) Informed sources in the Government of Pakistan have told Veterans Today that they are developing “hard evidence” indicating the Jet Blue Airbus 320 that crashed July 28th outside Islamabad was a terrorist hijacking tied to rogue American security forces operating inside that country. Read the rest of this entry »