Taliban’s threat media agencies
Posted on August 27, 2010 by admin
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban accused the United States and other countries on Thursday, they’ll go with the help of not really about the flood victims. He said, “the horde of aliens is” for the Taliban “in no way acceptable.” UN emergency relief coordinator John Holmes said the UN would take these threats very seriously. However, they will not be deterred.
To the catastrophic situation in the flooded areas of Pakistan now also been threats of violence against international aid organizations added. A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Azam Tariq, said the AP news agency by satellite phone, the U.S. and other countries that have pledged assistance, it does not really go to the flood victims. Moreover, since no help reach the people concerned, “this horde of aliens is acceptable to us in any way.”
Tariq pointed clearly to the words of the AP correspondent on Thursday that the militant extremists might resort to violence. UN emergency relief coordinator John Holmes said this in New York, the United Nations would take these threats very seriously. “We take appropriate precautions, but we will not let us deter them from doing what we think is necessary,” Holmes told reporters in New York. “And that is to help the Pakistani people.”
Tariq said not to see what other intentions than helping the people behind the Taliban, the international efforts to supply flood victims.
Hundreds of thousands on the run
This was aggravated by an earthquake on the southern Sindh province on Friday once again, the situation along the flood plains of the Indus. In Thatta district were, according to rescue workers, hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the floods. But in the city of Thatta is estimated that left 175,000 people – 70 percent of the population – their homes.
UN spokesperson Maurizio Giuliano said, were published Wednesday in the districts of Thatta and Qambar-Shadadkot one million people have been displaced by the flood. The situation was getting worse, “said Giuliano. “We share (help) from getting faster and faster, but the tide seems determined to overtake our efforts.”
Since the beginning of the flood disaster with unusually heavy monsoon are from the mountainous north to the agricultural heartland in the south of nearly 17.2 million people by the flooding have been significantly harmed directly and estimate that the United Nations. About 1.2 million houses and infrastructure were destroyed or badly damaged.