In pictures: Earthquake Hits Pakistan-India Border
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Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:48 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors who lost their homes after a massive earthquake get food near their makeshift tents at a refugee camp in Islamabad October 22, 2005. The engineering battalion promised by NATO to help reach untold numbers of quake survivors in the rugged hills of northern Pakistan cannot arrive soon enough, an international aid official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood -
Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:48 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors carry bags of food back to their mountain village in Shaheed Gali, about 15km north of earthquake-devastated Muzaffarabad October 22, 2005. The international response to the Pakistani earthquake has been inadequate and the speed and scale of relief for millions of survivors has to be intensified as winter approaches, the United Nations said on Saturday. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama -
Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:50 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors who lost their homes after a massive earthquake play near their makeshift tents at a refugee camp in Islamabad October 22, 2005. The engineering battalion promised by NATO to help reach untold numbers of quake survivors in the rugged hills of northern Pakistan cannot arrive soon enough, an international aid official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood -
Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:51 AM ET
Kashmiri survivors sit inside their makeshift plastic sheet shelter in mountain village Arriala, about 20 km (12 miles) north of earthquake-devastated Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, October 22, 2005. The international response to the Pakistani earthquake has been inadequate and the speed and scale of relief for millions of survivors has to be intensified as winter approaches, the United Nations said on Saturday. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama -
Struggle for normality
A makeshift cable car is strung across the Jhelum River in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the wake of the 8 October earthquake that killed more than 54,000 people. -
The UN says tens of thousands are still without adequate food and shelter and that the world's richest nations have failed to support its appeal for funds. -
Survivor Khawaj Nadeem Ahmed, 32, takes a rest amid the devastation in the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Muzaffarabad. More than three million are homeless like Khawaj. -
Turkish doctors treat a Kashmiri refugee girl brought to the Red Crescent field hospital in Muzaffarabad. -
A 12-strong flotilla of boats heads out to villages in northern Pakistan's Kaladaka valley, carrying blankets, tents, tarpaulin and wheat. -
One of three Indian relief camps set up along the Line of Control in divided Kashmir. Victims from the Pakistani side cannot attend until the two sides work out details for crossing the line. -
Some try to struggle back to normality but fears remain for those in remote areas as the Himalayan winter beckons. -
Reuters - Fri Oct 28, 4:31 AM ET
Soldiers help carry and distribute shelters, food and medical aid to the people of Islamabad, Pakistan October 27, 2005. Half a billion dollars of new aid was pledged to rebuild earthquake-hit Pakistan on Wednesday after a U.N. fund-raising drive, but emergency cash to help survivors through winter snows fell far short of U.N. goals. REUTERS/Cpl Chris Hargreaves/RLC/Crown Copyright -
Reuters - Fri Oct 28, 4:41 AM ET
Soldiers load aid, to be distributed for quake survivors, into a British helicopter in Islamabad, Pakistan October 27, 2005. Half a billion dollars of new aid was pledged to rebuild earthquake-hit Pakistan on Wednesday after a U.N. fund-raising drive, but emergency cash to help survivors through winter snows fell far short of U.N. goals. REUTERS/Cpl Chris Hargreaves/RLC/Crown Copyright -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 4:59 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor girl with a broken arm and aboy, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, chat as they cook bread for breakfast in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 4:59 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor young girl, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, at the entrance of her tent in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 5:00 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor woman looks around before her makeshift tent in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 5:01 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor woman, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, holds her crying baby in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 5:12 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor woman, affected by the Oct. 8 earthquake, waits for medical aid for her baby in a field hospital set up by the Turkish Red Crescent in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 5:18 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor woman and man, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, wash a crying baby in front of their tent in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 5:20 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor woman receives some milk in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 5:47 AM ET
A Pakistani volunteer hands a pair of young girls' slippers to earthquake survivors as they gather at a relief station set up at a camp for displaced people in Balakot, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 5:59 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivor children, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, sing in Urdu language in a tent-classroom in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. The United Nations gave a grim assessment of its thinly resourced earthquake relief operations in Pakistan Friday, saying it could keep its aid helicopters in the air for just another week and feed less than a quarter of the quake survivors if it did not receive immediate funding. (AP Photo / Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 6:00 AM ET
With two wolunteer teachers in the background, Kashmiri earthquake survivor children, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, sing in Urdu language in a tent-classroom in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. The United Nations gave a grim assessment of its thinly resourced earthquake relief operations in Pakistan Friday, saying it could keep its aid helicopters in the air for just another week and feed less than a quarter of the quake survivors if it did not receive immediate funding. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 6:14 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors, women from Panjkot village, who were affected by Oct. 8 earthquake, carry their children in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. The United Nations gave a grim assessment of its thinly resourced earthquake relief operations in Pakistan Friday, saying it could keep its aid helicopters in the air for just another week and feed less than a quarter of the quake survivors if it did not receive immediate funding. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici) -
AP - Fri Oct 28, 6:17 AM ET
A Kashmiri man has his beard trimmed amid the rubble in Balakot, Pakistan, on Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. The United Nations warned on Friday that it will run out of money and be forced to ground helicopters delivering desperately needed relief supplies to quake-hit northern Pakistan unless donors come through with the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to see 2.3 million hungry people through the winter. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)