A tribute and a salute to the great Philosopher and Poet Dr. Muhammad Allama Iqbal on this day, and always!

Khudaya arzoo meri yahee hai
Mera n oor-e-baseerat aam karde

[Ameen]

AoA everyone, Please forward this information to people who may need it for relief effort planning.

You will need to download Google Earth (and a high speed internet connection) to use the information provided in this mail. Google Earth can be downloaded for FREE from http://earth.google.com. The name “keyhole” used in various links is the old name of this product.

1- Useful Pakistan earthquake photos and links.

Links on this page point to KMZ files. You can download them and view them on Google Earth as overlays. For example, one of the KMZ file can show names of 4000 places in the earthquake affected areas. Another one has post-earthquake high res imagery for Muzaffarabad.

2- High res satellite images
(Buffa and Mansehra neighborhood)
(Islamabad and Pindi)
These images are not integrated into the map and you need to click on each red dot and then click on Load link to load the image.

This data was made available by the voluntary effort of people in the Google Earth team.

3- You can keep reading this forum for updated data availability on current events. There have been several posts about Asian earth quake.

4- Bookmark following page for updates on Google Earth maps database.

If you need more images/data please feel free to post on these bulletin boards. Also, the data about various relief camps, incidents as collected by various relief organizations can also be shared as a KMZ file with other people through these forums. One such example is:

(UN damage assessment)

PS: For people who don’t already know, Google Earth now has very high resolution images ( 0.7m/pixel ) of Karachi.

Talha (from Islamabad)

PIMS hospital has inside its premise a Children’s Hospital where injured children from Kashmir are being flown in. Soon all rooms and space inside the hospital will be used up. Friends of Children Hospital have requested for your help.

These children are the future of their land. They need your help.

the following was my reply

AoA

–Talha

the following is another email mesage forwarded to me by Madnas on the same topic

I want to bring everyone’s immidiate attention to the most grave issue of the hour… children from the disaster hit areas are going MISSING. Due to the chaos and its to keep a track of the children whose families are either missing or dead. Trafficars are taking full advantage of this situation. If any single one of the devastated kids would get in to wrong hands at this hour, we shall all be responsible for it.

Please spread this msg around

I thank you all for reading, this is an important message,

do NOT ignore it

have a blessed Ramadan

Talha (from Islamabad)

it was quite shocking

I hope everythings fine in the city

and that

it hasnt caused any damage …

+ I know it is already a late post but maybe some people from suburbial towns of Islamabad like wah and taxila can still manage it

There’s a combined prayer for the earthquake struck people and areas arranged at

All people who can manage , be there …

regards

Talha (from Islamabad)

and people are giving them quite a substantial amouunt

its our duty I guess to check the authenticity of the organisation which we are trusting with our money

And we should keep on checking where they are utilizing our money

For humanitys sake, be skeptical …

Talha (from Islamabad)

very very afraid

Those in Balakot, Bagh, Rawalakot are not afraid,

they are sad, they are hurt

they dont have anything to lose

one shock

one quake

deprived them of their homes, their houses, their families, their jobs, their businesses,their securities, their smiles, their laughters, their finances, their priorities, their emotions,

they are not afraid of anything

but we are afraid

this can happen to us too

oooo

will you please wait while I finish my dinner in my airconditioned room listening to my favorite music

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There are a lot of people donating a lot of things to those people in need, specially in Kashmir and NWFP who need every help they can get

Yesterday I saw on TV that Kashmir is going to get very cold nights nights,

people are homeless there, everyone is

I am sure every house in Islamabad specially and all other areas can spare one blanket each atleast to the relief fund guys

go ahead, lets do it …

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and to take a look at the info of each shock you can always visit this site
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WaSalam

Talha (from Islamabad)