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A call to arms

by AFTAB-AHMAD on Aug 14, 2010 Flood, Islam, Muslims, Pakistan, Ramadhan Comments Closed • , , , ,

Aslamu alaikum

I would like to wish everyone a blessed Ramadan. As we enter this month, we are encouraged to keep the sufferings of the destitute and starved in mind. Since a good act is appreciated greatly by Allah, it is encouraged to give one’s Zakat in this month.

As I write this email, there has been a severe devastation in Pakistan. Due to the raging water of the floods many people have lost their lives, houses and livestock. The loss of the seasons’ crops is spelling the impending doom of a fast approaching famine. There have been cases of people who stood on the roofs of their houses and were drowned to death along with their small children and wives.

I have been able to find a very reliable person (Haroon Agha) in Pakistan to distribute this year’s Zakat. I would wish that everyone who gets this message pool something in by Ramadan 15th so that the money can arrive promptly to those who deserve it. You are encouraged to give Zakat and Sadaqah. The money however will only be given to people who deserve Zakat with a preference to those who have been hard hit by the floods.

Please reply to this email or see me in person to contribute to this cause.

Hassan Mian.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Facebook

by salman on Feb 22, 2011 Better Job practice, Business, donation, Email Marketing Comments Closed • , ,

Advantages and Disadvantages of Facebook:

The interactive features like fan pages, games, groups and even videos enable marketers to reach out to a worldwide audience. Therefore, ordinary people like you and me can branch out and brand ourselves into Facebook celebrities like those movie and TV idols whom we got so accustomed to over the years before internet.

This in turn provides great opportunities to receive immediate feedback from prospects and customers without having to spend excessively on media advertising, research and surveys. If you do it properly by addressing their concerns with relevant and applicable solutions, it will greatly increase your brand loyalty and clientele.

If many people know you there, it is very likely that your brand presence has already been felt. So long as you continue providing good quality information and service, gaining their trust in you on a long term basis will no longer be a how to but a platform to achieving greater success.

However apart from having advantages, brand has their disadvantages too.

Traditional marketers are used to message broadcasts like what you hear on radio and seen on TVs. These are extreme formal ways of mass communication. Upon using Facebook for the first time, they will find it hard to copy with the informal language and word tones which Facebook prefers.

Past cases have shown that some business owners’ attempts in enforcing rules and guidelines on Facebook. As in either you buy or get out of my shop tones that many retail shops are still using. Many members are unhappy with them. They want to know more about the products first before buying and certainly have the rights to.

There are also people who will only be your friends if you buy something from them as a condition. Or people whom you want to be friends with but do not want to be friends with you simply because they have never met and perceived you as another internet scammer.


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Appeal for Pakistan Flood victims

by Abdurrahman on Aug 28, 2010 donation, Flood, Pakistan, World News Comments Closed • , , ,

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As the winter is approaching …

by Jamal on Sep 22, 2010 donation, Flood, Pakistan Comments Closed • , ,

Although flood waters in the northern part of the city receded over a week ago, those displaced are complaining that not enough government aid is reaching them.

Apart from food, water and medicine, affected residents also need household items like mattresses and pillows as all were damaged in the floods.

Soon the weather is going to change and people will face cold nights along the area which has come under floods. In some cases of severe weather the temperature can go down to negative 20 degrees. Its really hard to survive the winter living in tents. They won’t live too long in the cold temperatures. We have to get them in some sort of housing within the next two to three months.

There is a demand of 8000 winter packs (1 Quilt + 2 pillows) and the price of this pack is Rs. 1000. So far only 2000 packs has been arranged you are requested to update the information on your website for additional aid.

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Check Indian, Afghan Dams For Floods In Pakistan

by Asad on Sep 11, 2010 Afghanistan, Flood, India, Pakistan Comments Closed • , , ,

·        Indian company controls dam on Kabul River, tens of dams control flow of Kashmir water into Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan

·        Flood gates of Afghan Sarobi Dam, Indian Baglihar Dam were opened to drown Pakistani plains

·        Two US allies, the puppet regime in Kabul and the ‘strategic ally’ in New Delhi, declare water war on Pakistan

·        The tragedy one again raises question marks on the US double game against Pakistan in the region

·        Melting glaciers have nothing to do with this tragedy; it also doesn’t explain why Kabul river surged

It’s not as if the clouds dodged borders and focused on Pakistan only. Pakistan’s water flows from Indian-occupied Kashmir and from US-occupied Afghanistan. A natural deluge should have shown some spillover effect into Indian and Afghan regions adjoining Pakistan. It is interesting that a second and a third wave of floods is expected in Pakistan when there’s no rain to justify it. Where is the water coming from? Here’s a perspective by Mr. Zaid Hamid, a security analyst at BrassTacks, and Ms. Gulpari Mehsud, a researcher at PakNationalists.com. [PakNationalists.com]

 By ZAID HAMID & Gulpari Mehsud

Tuesday, 17 August 2010.

WWW.PAKNATIONALISTS.COM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—There is a very sinister aspect to the floods in Pakistan that no one is discussing in the media. While there were rains and flooding in some rivers of the country, the size, scale and the gush of water suddenly pumped into these rivers defies logic. This is especially true considering that rains have slowed down since the breakout of the floods on 29 July.

It is two weeks since the rains stopped but water continues to rise in the rivers Indus and Chenab. There was no flooding in India or in Afghanistan. Never before have rivers in all the provinces of Pakistan flooded at the same time without a similar act affecting the upstream, the source. While some parts of the country, like some areas of Khyber Pakhtun Khwa saw flooding in 1929, the simultaneous floods covering all of Pakistan and in all of the rivers flowing in from Afghanistan and Indian-occupied Kashmir is something truly unprecedented.

This speed and quantity of the gushing water and the short span of time in which it picked momentum preclude the possibility that water from melting glaciers are solely responsible for the floods.

There is no evidence that suggests that glaciers decided to melt at a faster speed just in time for the heavy monsoon rains.

There is every likelihood that what we are seeing today is that the Indians and the US-backed regime in Kabul are using water as a weapon for the first time to deluge Pakistan. There is no doubt about it.

From an initial look at the data, it seems that a natural spill of heavy rain was exploited by releasing water reservoirs in Indian-occupied Kashmir and on river Kabul. Let’s remember that the Met Office in Pakistan had already forecast heavy rains almost ten days before the first downpour. Different people received this news in different ways. Pakistani politicians, inept and incompetent as usual, slept over it. The anti-Pakistan terrorists based on Afghan soil and supported by several countries used this information to exacerbate terror against Pakistani citizens in the southwestern province of Balochistan, knowing that the State machinery would be distracted.

Interestingly, even when it comes to water, it is Indians where are sitting to the left and right of Pakistan’s borders. The dam on Kabul river is handled by Indian personnel, while tens of dams choke Pakistan from the side of occupied Kashmir. (more…)

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Despair of Pakistan’s forgotten flood victims

by Abdullah on Nov 7, 2010 Flood, Health & Fitness, Pakistan, World News Comments Closed • , , , ,

Nimani Bakhsh lost her twin girls, who were just 12 days old

Liaqat Babar, a farmer in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, sees just one escape from the hunger, loss and torment inflicted by the recent catastrophic floods. Suicide.

“When I see my kids, I feel like killing myself,” he says.

“We are powerless. We just keep quiet and ask God for death.”

Three months after the flooding which affected 20 million people and one fifth of the country, Liaqat has no home, no hope and no answers for his six children.

“They are crying for food, ” he says.

“I tell them God will send someone very kind, and I send them to sleep. In the morning they ask again for food, and I say again that God will send someone.”

Queuing in vain

Liaqat Babar among queues of desperate flood victims waiting for help

Liaqat was among a throng of broken men queuing for hours under a blistering sun, at a distribution of aid in the town of Daur.

Like many other areas in Sindh, Daur is cut off by water – an island of desperation.

Troops were deployed to control the hungry, who began gathering at six in the morning.

With a single helicopter the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) could only bring in 250-300 rations. But three or four times that number had joined the queue.

“It is heartbreaking,” said WFP’s Dorte Jessen, looking across at the swelling crowd.

“The need is so big, and you want to help everyone.”

But they could not all be helped that day. Liaqat was among those who was left empty-handed.

Soon there could be even less to go round. The WFP says it will have to cut rations – by half – in November because of a lack of donations. The UN’s $2bn (£1.26) appeal for Pakistan is less than 40% funded. (more…)

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fakhr alam appeal PIA flood relief

by Abdurrahman on Aug 28, 2010 donation, Flood, Pakistan, World News Comments Closed • , , , ,

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Funds needed for Pakistan flood relief

by Abdullah on Aug 28, 2010 donation, Flood, North America, Pakistan, World News Comments Closed • , , , , ,

The Canadian Red Cross is asking for funding to help flood victims in Pakistan.

It is estimated that six million people are in need of immediate assistance, including food, medicine, nutrition and clean drinking water, with a high epidemic risk.

Pregnant women, children and the elderly are most vulnerable.

Jan Brunschot, the Chatham branch’s community service co-ordinator for disaster management, said that some local donations have been coming in.

“We’re having trouble really pinpointing the extent of the damage, because we can’t get to some of the people,” she said on Friday.

On Monday, the Red Cross deployed a new field clinic. These clinics provide immediate curative, preventive and community health care.

Those wishing to donate may give online, call 1-800- 418-1111, or contact the local Canadian Red Cross office at 519-352-2510.

Cheques should be made payable to the Canadian Red Cross, earmarked “Pakistan Floods 2010″ and mailed to the Canadian Red Cross National Office, 170 Metcalfe Street, Suite 300, Ottawa, Ontario, K2P 2P2.

Donate $5 by texting REDCROSS to 30333. A onetime donation of $5 will be added to your mobile phone bill. All charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider.

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Now its getting COLD …

by sufisahab on Sep 12, 2010 Flood, Pakistan Comments Closed • ,

Assalam-O-Alaikum

Alhamdulillah! with grace of Allah s.w.t UstaadKhan was making some efforts for flood relief in Pakistan. Focus of our efforts was an area named Tangi Tehsil Charsadda. Almost all the villages on banks of three rivers got effected with this flood. There were more then 400 families. They were staying in local people’s houses and schools.

In beginning we have to arrange a shelter for them and then food, drinking water and medicine. We dug wells for drinking water. Then we arranged plastic canes and bottles for distribution of water. Alhamdulillah with the help of Allah s.w.t we achieved those targets. As you know that UstaadKhan kept on sending mails to you. When Ramadan started we planned to give them cooking pots and uncooked food. So that they can cook their food themselves. Details of these things can be seen on UstaadKhan. During this we got a demand for tents also. Allah s.w.t fulfilled this demand as well.

Now some of them have started going back to their areas. But their houses are in a state to live in. Mud made houses are completely gone with the flood. Houses which were made of bricks and cement are badly damaged. With help of Allah s.w.t. we fixed a few mosques there and now men are staying in Mosques and Ladies are staying in houses. Now the next thing is fixed their house there. And all those who can’t return to their villages they are in tents in open area. And weather is changing. Nights are getting cold. They need worm clothes and blankets. Hence the things in need are as:

  • Rebuild / Repair houses
  • Blankets
  • Worm Clothes
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One month on, Pakistan’s torment worsens

by ali on Aug 28, 2010 donation, Flood, Muslims, Pakistan Comments Closed • , , ,

Flood victims returning to their homes in Basera, Punjab, as the waters recede

Up to a million people have fled their homes in the past two days, as floods, never seen on such a scale, continue to sweep south.

A month after devastating floods first brought havoc to Pakistan, thousands of people were still fleeing surging water yesterday as the Indus broke its banks close to a historic city in the country’s south.

Officials said water had breached the river’s defences close to Thatta and had also flooded a second canal that feeds from the Indus. Yesterday evening, officials estimated that the 20ft breach in the levee, which happened early in the morning, could cause flooding in the outskirts of the city by nightfall.

Most of the 200,000-strong population of Thatta, 75 miles south-east of Karachi, have already left the city, camping out by the sides of roads or trying to move to cities out of the flood zone. Hundreds of families were taking shelter in an ancient Muslim graveyard and in a nearby Hindu temple.

Up to a million people have been forced to flee their homes in the past 48 hours. With so many needing help and so little relief reaching the southern parts of Sindh province, scores of people blocked a road in Thatta to demand more assistance. They complained that the scant supplies available were usually thrown from the backs of trucks, resulting in crowds of people fighting among themselves for food and water.

“The people who come here to give us food treat us like beggars,” an 80-year-old woman called Karima (who has just one name) told Associated Press. “They just throw the food. It is humiliating.” (more…)

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