As flood victims protest, China donates 3,000 tents
China sent the tents via four air crafts to Pakistan.
The Chinese Counsel General handed over these tents to Provincial Disaster Management Director at the Karachi airport for distribution among flood affectees.
The Chinese Counsel General said his country will always stand with Pakistan in difficult times.
While efforts continue to tackle the catastrophe, flood affectees in lower and central Sindh have protested against the shortage of basic necessities including food, medicines and clean drinking water.
People from several districts protested against the shortage of aid and the government's inability to drain flood waters from several villages in Sindh. Police have reportedly baton charged people protesting the ineffective and insufficient aid.
A shutter down strike is also being observed in the southern town of Kunri.
Standing waters in several areas have started to spread diseases and many people have been infected with gastroenteritis, malaria and skin related diseases.
Snake bites and water borne diseases are also common. Shortage of portable water is forcing people to drink flood water.
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@Mohammad naeem: I have no qualms in PAK accepting aid from china. More the better. But do not think all Chinese -PAK relationship is altruistic. China's sovereign (gov) investment in PAK coal, mining, gas, port etc has terms that is not good for PAK Economic independence. Ideally PAK should have auctioned it off to get the maximum for her people by increasing investor competition. Do people know the terms of the transactions with china. ? PAK market will be flooded with Chinese goods decimating local craftsmen livelihood. In US it is a different story but for PAK it is not good. PAK exports raw material to china not finished goods. China exports to PAK finished goods which carry high trade value.
American aid built PAK since 1947. Look at the Indus canal system, the roads and fly overs, Karachi nuclear plant, police vehicles, etc. American aid is building schools. Lot of US aid flowed through the PAK gov even before the war but not utilized properly. Current war? No body wanted it but PAK is in the middle of it from day one even before sept 11.
The truth is US is keeping PAK afloat but current Islamic fundamentalism is so high in PAK, anti-US has become a policy without regard to facts. No one is asking PAK to take the aid. How many commemorative coins did PAK mint for all the US support even before the present war?
@imran and all us always donate or give aid to pakistan for their self intrests and for fulfilment of their calculated plans. While if china helps us it does neither ask us to fight their war nor want a relation that of master-slave from us. Enough.
These brave people deserve better life. But how and who will look after them? First Nation, metis and people living in rural areas in Canada have more say in Government than the urban area's residents. They are better looked after by the Government. In Pakistan, only Media can bring change by meaningful programs rather than conventional debates. Media needs to come up with a better plan to save Pakistan with better organized programs keeping in mind a bigger and better vision to save Pakistan.
China is a real friend and exactly knows how to make Pakistanis happy. Cheap Chinese goods are off loaded and everybody is happy. On the other hand only fools donate millions of cash for the actual needs of flood victims. It is a win win situation for both China and Pakistan. No loss of any cash for China not even a million.
Wow. Lets calculate. 3000 Tents x 10,000 Rs per tent = 30,000,000 Rs. Thats approx. 350K USD. Pakistan loyalty for 350K USD ? You get a "long live china" for 350K USD ?
America gives pak billions of dollars and china give you tents... what a joke China gives more aid and diplomatic support to North Korea and Zimbabwe( Robert mugabe) than to any other country. Any way say thanks to chinese for mere tents.
Its potable, and not portable water, just to correct you.
And at the time of need, even 3000 is worth it.
@punjab:who supported us ? If you are pointing to USA then let me explain that we have never recieved any aid by USA,instead,we suffered losses of $70 blns in fighting their war but they didn't compensate us
Yay, best friends forever, lol.
we should demand more help from China as we stategically placed for China to do business with themiddle east.
Our school in Lahore collected money for 1000 tents, 5000Kg food and 5 buffalos....are we good like china????
$100 a tent x 6000 = $600,000. Not bad when they are in need, but why hate Americans who literally saved PAK from drowning and bankruptcy?
long live china
Thank you people of China for your gift.
Just 3000 tents? And we still call it our "best friend". This like peanuts when compared to the assistance we have received from the US.
we are thankful to our friend and neighbourer china for helping tormented flood affetees of pakistan.world really needs to be led by a country like china that believes in using its wealth for the betterment of humanity all over the world.