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Only three weeks earlier on our 5th Flood Relief mission to Shikarpur the OffroadPakistan stumbled across the Pediatric Ward at Civil Hospital in Shikarpur, the moment we saw the dilapidated situation it touched a nerve in practically each one of our team members and in unison decided to adopt this facility to bring it to some…
We Pakistanis love to react, and do so rather emotionally. The Aafia siddiqui case in a prime example of this. Â I was among the bloggers who reacted in the most knee jerk way possible here when news of this person broke out. Nobody can deny that the way she was treated in Bagram was despicable…
Everyone knows the story by now, how could they not? Its been blasted to us from every corner of our input receivers on all forms of media and has spiraled into something resembling a circus pretty quick. A well spoken man receives a large sum of money in a hotel room in England, allegedly to spot fix…
Much has been lost in the shape of lives, property and material well-being due to the worst floods in history. It is however, pure folly to consider each one of the IDPs as people who were always downtrodden and impoverished. Some of them were just as full of stomach and pocket as you and me…
On several of my excursions with the Pk relief team in Sukkur, Shikarpur, Thatta and Jacobabad we have witnessed UN presence on the ground as well as UNHCR and UNDP doing credible work. Please assist them in the cause of the flood victims of Pakistan by spreading this message far and wide and take some time out to donate to your…
Ever since the start of our first flood relief mission to Sukkur on 14th August 2010 the sheer number of lives that we may have impacted is truly unimaginable PkRelief has to its credit the following statistics Provided 36,800 persons with food/ration hampers, enough to last them a week Provided 25,000 people with immediate ready…
Even though we had not gone back to shikarpur in two weeks the off roaders had kept in mind the SSGC degree college camp witnessed by us while we were on ground there. We contacted Mr Mukesh the pointman of this camp and found that the food situation there was getting desperate. This camp houses…
Pakistan currently faces the biggest humanitarian crisis of modern history that has been wreaked by a natural disaster. Weeks of heavy monsoon rains have caused the biggest flood in living history of the region and have spurred an unprecedented migration of people out of the flood affected areas. With nearly 15% of the population of…
As part of the Offroad Pakistan relief convoy, I have been making regular trips to interior Sindh. On our first trip to Sukkur two weeks ago, our trucks were attacked while distributing food packages on the Sukkur-Shikarpur road. I was present on location then and had to assist in distribution while trying to maintain some kind…
If you are a Pakistani there can be only two reactions you can have to the above video, the first would be the sinking feeling we all get when things surface then are swept under the carpet and then surface again. In between all this we usually tend to come up with a cockamamie conspiracy…