Turbohot

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4323008.stm

7.6 magnitude quake also rocked India and Afghanistan.

sarasquares

iTrader: (1)

have you got any reletives in that neck of the woods TH

lightning101

19,000 dead

scoobyali

HI guys
my family are from kashmir, my farther is over there at the mo he is ok but shaken, my brother in law went a week ago to vist and he now is helping bury children who came under some minarets nice to see you guys care! THANKS.

Scooby Ali

Brendan Hughes

Forgive me for pointing out a ray of sunshine during an otherwise miserable period...

Good luck to all your family, winter's approaching too I hear? That's gonna be damn cold...

kilo_4que

very warm indeed mate. The NWFP where my relatives come from has been affected also. Two schools have collapsed with one everyone surviving, in the other a teach and some children killed. A whole family of 7 has also been killed and the nearby Hazara area has been totally destroyed.

30,000-40,000 death toll ticking away

Ben WRX Bug-Eye

Sorry to hear this news.

Regardless of personal opinions on race, religion, immigration etc everybody is going to feel the same. These things can never be good, regardless of where they are happening.

kilo_4que

thank you ben, these are events regardles of wherei n the world condolences should be shared.

Turbohot

No Sara although some of the parts of India e.g. Delhi had felt some tremors,so has jaipur and up till Ajmer.my hometown didn't experience it and I have no one i know in Pakistan.I am still shocked.it brings back the memory of Gujarat earthquake.Hope the rescue operation saves as many as possible and the loved ones get back to their relatives

Petem95

Well sorry to break it to you mate but there is no allah, just like there is no father christmas and no tooth fairy

Going back on topic that was a pretty bad quake - dead toll was a few hundred, then suddenly reported to be 20,000. Hope the rescue teams manage to get there quickly - no doubt a lot of people trapped alive in the rubble right now, so hopefully some can be saved.

dpb

There isnt much you can say ...you can empathise tho..
AND BEING RICH WESTERN CITIZENS you can DONATE.!!


ive no axe to grind with any religon

Turbohot

At the time of such crisis religion is irrelavent.Lives are meaningful.Empathy counts so does help- if possible.
IMO

kilo_4que

well thats ure personal opinion

there is definately Allah according to us muslims and he does what he wills.

carl

It appears that some of my wife's family have been killed, including some kids

kilo_4que

very very sad indeed. There are people of all races and religions killed in this catastrophe. Hope the death toll doesnt keep ticking as rapidly as it has been

recopish

There seams to be one pissed god -whatever shape or form he takes- no matter what any one says everone will be affected in one way or another,
...

andypugh2000

Me and my wifes condolances go out to all affected, such a terrible tragedy

Ben WRX Bug-Eye

I don't think God is to blame for this. God isn't deciding to kill a load of Muslims one day and then Christians the next! I think we should look to God to give us the strength to get through difficult times, not blame God for them. Just my belief.

kilo_4que

how can we blame someone for creating everything

n Ben you are right mate but do remember it isnt a fact that say for example in the new orleans devastations only christians died. Yes majority of them were christians probably but certainly people of all races and religions died in the events. Similarly in the tsunami and here in pakistan people from all backgrounds have been affected n rather than starting to point fingers at one another, we need to get together and hope it doesnt get worse than it already has.

Turbohot

Ever so sorry to know that!
<speechless>

kilo_4que

its the kids thats getting to me so much. Especially the pics u see on TV of little ones stuck in the rubble, very sad indeed

Ben WRX Bug-Eye

I agree with what your saying kilo. My point is that it happened because there was a fault line there and that's it. These events will keep happening and people will be affected regardless of religion or race as you say. Everybody is human and whatever issues there may be, this isn't a time to bring religion etc into it.

My thought's are with the people affected...

kilo_4que

true, i agree with u

The Zohan

What a terrible thing to happen, just read that around 40,000 are thought dead, parents using shovels and picks to dig their kids out of two buried schools. Kinda puts your own problems in perspective really.

Shame to see this thread went off topic for a while.

Just sorted out our 'old' kids and adults clothes for a trip down to Oxfam.

kilo_4que

Exactly Paul, these are situations where one needs to be thinking about what has happened and look at those affected such as the thousands of little kids. We need to hope that no matter where in the world, regardless of ure personal vendettas this situation is not faced by anyone

very sad indeed

Brendan Hughes

turboman786

An absolute disaster, hitting some of the poorest people in the world....

On a side note, I note that many people have adopted the line of 'what a cruel God, what God etc'?....Fot those who have made comments such as those, do you therefore conversely THANK GOD every day when God feeds,clothes and shelters the billions in the earth...or does the blaming game only work one way?...

kilo_4que

aah forget it bro, those who care about what has happened do not find this as an opportunity to joke and make smart comments. Those who do, just wonder what theyd be thinking if they encountered a similar disaster