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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49310)	10/22/2005 10:48:16 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF	Respond to of 50167

Massive cargo helicopters from the US and Pakistani militaries kick up clouds of dust in a herculean effort to deliver relief goods to millions left homeless after Pakistan's massive October 8 earthquake. But a simple appeal scribbled on a page of a torn notepad offers a glimpse of the nightmarish conditions the survivors and injured are still facing -- urgent help has not arrived two weeks after the powerful quake that flattened their homes and many of them are dying. "Our village is too far from the road. There are no facilities left. All the houses are destroyed and finished. Please help us. There in our village many people are dead and injured. "No help has reached us in Shakrian village," says the note handed to passing vehicles by a man who said he walked for days to reach the highway near the town of Ghari Dhopatta, some 20 kilometers (12 miles) east of Muzaffarbad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir which bore the brunt of the devastation. He points to the upper regions of the mountain range when asked where Shakrian is, exhausted from his effort. "Please relay the message," he says. Taking off from an army stadium converted into a relief operations base in Muzaffarabad, the helicopters complete about 100 daily sorties delivering food and aid to upland areas inaccessible by road.