• Both US And PAF Are Responsible For Flood Relief Hurdles
  
• Aid workers confirm they can’t reach half a million victims due to a US-related security cordon
  
• Jacobabad cut off from the rest of the country
  

Pakistan Air Force arranged a hurriedly organized media tour yesterday to prove that the base is not under US control. But this does not appear to be the whole truth. Over the past eight years, PAF offered and withdrew different types of facilities to US military at the base. The Americans used the base mostly for logistical purposes and not to stage direct attacks against targets in Afghanistan or inside Pakistan’s northwestern region. But there were times when the number of US personnel at the base crossed 200, including special-forces operatives. According GlobalSecurity.org, Pakistani newspaper Daily Times claimed on 10 March 2004 that the airbase was under US control, “with an inner ring of facilities off-limits to Pakistan's military,” according to the paper. But in August 2010, there is credible information that new special residential barracks for US personnel have been constructed. Unfortunately, Pakistan has accepted to house US personnel who will ensure the country’s doesn’t ‘misuse’ the new F-16s. So despite PAF’s – and US Embassy’s – sharp reaction, it is clear there is some merit to the statement of Federal Health Secretary Kamran Lashari that US presence at the base is preventing using the base for flood relief operations. Another related issue is the level of Pakistani involvement in CIA drone attacks inside Pakistan that have killed a huge number of innocent Pakistanis and turned Pakistani citizens against their country. [PakNationalists.com] continue

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Will US now dictate how Pakistanis help their own flood victims? US is forcing ISPR to give media coverage to US helicopters, and wants the puppet Pakistani govt to ban Pakistani charities that are doing a good work just because US considers them enemies, while US puppets in govt refuse to do anything or even donate despite being millionaires? Jacobabad air base can’t be used for aid dispersement because US personnel are housed there to check we don’t misuse F-16s? And now this US-installed govt is accepting aid from India? Thieves in power fully protected by US & their local guarantors. May God have mercy on Pakistan where national spirit lies in the pits today thanks to these Abdul-Dollars. – Ahmed Qureshi

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi appealed to the international community to provide more and immediate aid to cope with the humanitarian crisis due to the floods. Moreover, Pakistan has decided to accept flood aid from its neighbour India, saying the offer was a “very welcome initiative” as both countries look to improve their tense relations. Foreign Minister Qureshi told India’s NDTV television in an interview broadcast Friday that Islamabad would take India’s offer of five million dollars which was made last Friday.

“I can share with you that the government of Pakistan has agreed to accept the Indian offer,” Qureshi said from New York, where he addressed a special session of the UN General Assembly called to boost aid for flood victims. “I think this initiative of India is a very welcome initiative.”

India and Pakistan have made major efforts in recent months to build confidence in their relations, which were badly strained by the Mumbai 2008 terror attacks, which Indian blamed on militants from Pakistan. The United States urged Pakistan earlier this week to accept the Indian offer and not let rivalry stand in the way of helping its citizens in flood-ravaged regions. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh rang his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday “to express his sense of sorrow and to condole the deaths resulting from the huge floods,” Singh’s office said.

The catastrophic floods in Pakistan have claimed nearly 1,500 lives and affected 20 million people.

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SPECIAL REPORT

This is a lesson for the whole Pakistani nation. If you are a Pakistani reading this, please tell others. While the world’s rich dole out money to help Pakistan’s flood victims, Pakistan’s rich political elite refuses to budge. By now we should have been seeing members of this ruling elite buying tents, building shelters and providing gallons of clean drinking water to the homeless millions. But in every flooded district of the country, you will see Pakistani civilian and military volunteers. But not the politicians.

Consider this:

On the first day of a nationwide Saudi campaign to raise funds for the victims of floods in Pakistan on Monday, 17 Aug. 2010:

- King of Saudi Arabia, Abdullah bin Abdelaziz Al Saud, donated US$5.3 million from his private money to Pakistan flood victims

- Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdelzziz Al Saud gave away US$2.7 million from his private money

- Interior Minister Nayef bin Abdelaziz Al Saud gave away two million Saudi riyals

- Governor of Tabouk donated one million Saudi Riyals

- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud gave ten million Saudi riyals

- Businessman Eesa bin Mohammad al Eesa, president of the Samba Financial Group, donated two million Saudi riyals

This is not to mention the sight of Saudi women who thronged public aid collection camps in different Saudis cities and were photographed by the international media donating their jewelry to King Abdullah’s campaign in support of Pakistan.  continue

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Health relief operations in Jacobabad are not possible because the airbase in the area is controlled by the US.

The stunning statement was made by Health Secretary Khushnood Lashari during an appearance at the Senate Standing Committee on Health on Wednesday.

“Health relief operations are not possible in the flood-affected areas of Jacobabad because the airbase is with the United States,” Mr Lashari said while answering a question asked by Senator Semeen Yusuf Siddiqui of PML-Q.

Dr Jahanzeb Aurakzai, coordinator of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Centre, said: “Foreign health teams could not start relief operations in remote areas because there are no airstrips close to several areas, including Jacobabad.”

The town has been evacuated and 500,000 to 700,000 people have been affected. People displaced from Jacobabad, Thul, Kandhkot, Kashmore, Ghouspur and Karumpur are camping in Dera Allahyar.

“It is very unfortunate that Americans can launch a drone attack from Shahbaz airbase but the government is helpless even in using the country’s base for relief operations,” Senator Semeen said while talking to this correspondent.

She said the health ministry should have requested the army to ask the US to allow relief operation from the base.

“I don’t know why the health minister failed to report the matter to the quarters concerned, specifically the Pakistan Army.

“The airbase, which I think the government has given on lease to the Americans, should be used to provide immediate health relief to the flood-affected people.”

The committee, headed by Senator Kulsoom Parveen, was briefed by officials on health-related operations in the affected areas.

APP adds: Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman has ordered PAF to form an air bridge of relief supply for Jacobabad which has been cut off from the rest of the country and make operational an airfield near Sibi for immediate supply of relief goods to flood-hit areas in the vicinity.

Presiding over a meeting, he asked the air staff to use all available human and material resources to provide timely relief to the affected people.

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• Indian company controls dam on Kabul River, tens of dams control flow of Kashmir water into Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan
  
•  Flood gates of Afghan Sarobi Dam, Indian Baglihar Dam were opened to drown Pakistani plains
  
• Two US allies, the puppet regime in Kabul and the ‘strategic ally’ in New Delhi, declare water war on Pakistan
  
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• · Melting glaciers have nothing to do with this tragedy; it also doesn’t explain why Kabul river surged

It’s not as if the clouds dodged borders and focused on Pakistan only. Pakistan’s water flows from Indian-occupied Kashmir and from US-occupied Afghanistan. A natural deluge should have shown some spillover effect into Indian and Afghan regions adjoining Pakistan. It is interesting that a second and a third wave of floods is expected in Pakistan when there’s no rain to justify it. Where is the water coming from? Here’s a perspective by Mr. Zaid Hamid, a security analyst at BrassTacks, and Ms. Gulpari Mehsud, a researcher at PakNationalists.com. [PakNationalists.com] continue

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Aey Watan K Sajeely Siyasat dano
Sare Raqbey tumharey Liye Hain

Kothiyon K Talabgar Ho Tum
Ploton K Parastar Ho Tum

O, Zalalat Ki Zinda Misalo
Saray karzey tmharey liye hain

Tum Hi Se Qaim Budget Ka Khsara
Lahoo pi lo ghariboo ka sara

Aey Jahanum k zinda nishano
Sarey Funds Tumarey Liye Hain

Aey Pak Watan K Ghadaro
O, America K Wafadaro

Ye jitni bhi hain is jahan mai
Sari Lanatain Tumhare Liye Hain…

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The recent floods have most strongly highlighted what absence of dams can do to a country. I have great trust in Pakistan and that Allah will not abandon us especially when Pakistanis want to take up the role that Allah wants for muslims and so I would more likely be inclined towards calling these recent floods a signal from Allah to make dams by shattering the propaganda on dams. Its true the floods have inflicted great hardship and azmaish on Pakistan but at the same time have also shattered the so called ANP and anti pakistan elements propaganda on KBD and other dams. Pakistan must urgently move towards making dozens of dams and without any delay. Whosoever stands in hindering it, should be put brought to good justice. This is a signal from Allah reminding us many things, one of which is dams also. Otherwise, there is no other way for Pakistan to confront India's plans working on Indus Water Treaty. Once it was more of apprehensions, now it has become reality. At the same time, we should also turn to Allah with honest hearts seeking His forgiveness and work to re-establish our link with Him by fulfilling our promise for Pakistan. He may be trying us but at the same time exposing everything working against Pakistan too. For sure He is the best planner. Pakistanis should more strongly raise their voices for constuction of dams in Pakistan.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Islamabad/17-Aug-2010/SC-moved-for-Kalabagh-Dam-construction

Supreme Court has been moved for immediate construction of the controversial Kalabagh Dam on Tuesday. The petition was filed by Advocate Azam Khan Sultanpuri, who made federal and provincial governments, members of the National Assembly and Senate the parties in his application. Advocate Sultanpuri argued that the World Bank had pledged to fund dams in Pakistan at the time of Indus Basin Treaty. However, these projects were ignored due to political compulsions, he said. He contended that the ongoing floods proved that the deluge could have been averted, had there Kalabagh Dam been constructed. The petition urged the apex court to order immediate construction of Kalabagh Dam so that flood-like natural catastrophes could be prevented in the future.

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