Pakistani quake more devastating than Tsunami: UN
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations said on Friday that last week's devastating earthquake in Pakistan has played the havoc more than the Tsunami did.
The rebuilding in quake zone would cost billions of dollars and the rescue work was in dire need of more millions of dollars.
"This is our worst nightmare -- a very major earthquake in the Himalaya mountains just before winter sets in with millions of people affected and more than a million people homeless," said Jan Egeland, UN's emergency relief coordinator said while talking to a foreign news agency correspondent after visiting the quake hit areas in NWFP and Azad Kashmir.
He said that with Tsunami different Asian coastal areas were affected, but contrary to that hundreds of thousands of people in Pakistan spread over a vast area had been affected from the century's worst quake.
At least 45,00,000 people have directly been affected in Kashmir from the disaster, while relatives of majority of the quake survivors had died and half of the total quake victims had been left with either no home or affected homes.
He told that the quake survivors were facing acute paucity of potable water and homeless and helicopters were direly needed to ramp up the relief work.
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