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It is really
great that Petarians in Karachi got together
full of zeal to join hands in this great effort.
The conference call with Petarians in Islamabad
established the link to go ahead with a relief
program.
The
area we have chosen is in the valley around
the village of Samni, located in Tehsil Rerah,
District Bagh. So far, almost no relief has
reached this valley. The demographic details
of this village are as follows:
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Population: 25,000 - 30,000
- No.
of houses 7,000
- Gender
ratio is almost equal
The
present status as per reports is as follows:
- Almost
100% houses have been demolished, and people
are under the sky
- They
are still awaiting relief
- There
is no medicine, food and clothes, etc. They
lost everything
- Reported
no. of deaths is 25-30 people including
women and children in Samni village while
other villages in the valley have had more
deaths. Details are still awaited.
- All
people are homeless
- All
communications system has been demolished
My
company will give two of its trucks for the
operations to ply back and forth between Islamabad
and Samni.
We
Petarians alone may not be able to handle the
rehabilitation of this entire village ourselves.
There are other non-Petarian friends here who
are also volunteering goods and manpower for
this village.
The
immediate critical items we need are:
There
is a great shortage of tents in the local market.
If anyone can get hold of tents (4m x 4m size)
locally, please pick them up. For our overseas
Petarians, if you can ship out tents to us,
that will be a great help. We need 7,000 tents
for this valley alone. Shahid Mahmud has located
a large quantity of tents in India, which he
is trying to obtain. But if you have access
to tents, please go ahead and procure them.
One
team of Petarian doctors will be coming from
Karachi tomorrow insha Allah. We shall arrange
to send them to the village so that they may
start up operations. We shall assist in whatever
supplies that are needed.
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We need to mobilize funds on a fast track.
As
Mahmood has pointed out, you may send your funds
to the Petarian Foundation. I have already sent
you the bank routing instructions for the Petarian
Foundation. I am posting it again with this
email as an attachment. Please see the attachment.
For
those who are in Pakistan, we have already applied
for tax exempt status for the Petarian Foundation,
and expect to have that in place shortly. So
insha Allah, you should be able to avail tax
exemption when you file your next tax returns
in case you send the funds to the Petarian Foundation.
Let
us all join hands to make this a true show of
united spirit amongst Petarians.
The
Islamabad operations will be handled out of
Shahid's and my offices. Our offices are located
opposite each other in F-7/1. The addresses
are as follows:
Techcorp
Holding (Pvt) Ltd.
12A, Street 29, F-7/1
Islamabad
Tel: 265-2511/2
Interactive
Communications (Pvt) Ltd
9, Street 29, F-7/1
Islamabad
Tel: 265-2505/9
Arif
Masud will be coordinating a lot of the work
out of Islamabad insha Allah. With the passage
of the next couple of days, we will be clearer
on the distribution of work load between us
here.
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