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Aftershock: The earthquake in Pakistan
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It happened in an instant…one of the worst natural disasters in history. Tens of thousands killed and untold devastation. Can Pakistan ever fight its way back and if so, at what cost?
It happened in an instant. One of the worst natural disasters in history.
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Tens of thousands killed and untold devastation.
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Can Pakistan ever fight its way back? And if so, at what cost?
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Pakistan, October 8th, 2005.
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Minutes after the earthquake struck.
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More than two million people were made homeless.
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73,000 lay dead, nearly half of whom were children.
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Many of the children who survived were orphaned.
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North of the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, at this government-run orphanage,
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children gather for morning class.
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Separated from his parents by the quake, 13-year-old Aurangzeb thinks they're dead.
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Just as class is settling down for the first lesson,
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a delegation from the Red Cross arrives, carrying news.
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Against all odds, and six months after the event, Aurangzeb's mother has been found alive and well.
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Did you think that you would see them again?
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No, I thought I would never see them.
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What did you think happened to them?
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I thought that my mother was dead.
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How has life been here in the orphanage?
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It's been OK.
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The Red Cross delegation has also got a letter from Aurangzeb's mother.
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But instead of calling him home, she tells him to stay just where he is.
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She knows that the facilities and education available to him at the orphanage
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are much better than he would get at home.
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It is closure of stories like this that mark the end of the emergency phase of the relief effort,
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says Pakistan's Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz.
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And this process is now gradually coming to an end.
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We want people to gradually move out of the tents and the refugee camps into permanent homes.
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We have impressed upon people that living in a tent with your family forever
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is not the best thing for them or their children.
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Pakistani-administered Kashmir was the area worst hit by the earthquake,
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with basic infrastructures all but destroyed.
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Across much of the territory, reconstruction is already underway
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as people try to piece together the remnants of their shattered lives.
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But for those people who have spent the last six months in tents,
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the task of reconstruction looks set to be a long and painful process.
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Throughout the long winter months,
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the basic needs of the displaced have all been met.
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And the prospect of returning to villages utterly destroyed is a daunting one,
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especially now that they have grown accustomed to the free social services
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to which they will have little access once back in their villages.
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Mohammad Iftikhar is preparing to return home with his mother and siblings.
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Here they give us everything we need.
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We have food to eat and everything is provided.
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I don't feel like going back, but I have no choice.
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No choice because the government has made it clear that the $3,000 compensation package
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that they are offering the displaced is only available to those who return to their villages.
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But for Mohammad's younger sister, Binesh, the prospect of going home brings fears.
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Binesh was in school when the earthquake struck.
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She saw many of her friends killed by the collapsing rubble.
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She is terrified of going home, but returns she must.
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And so her brother continues loading their possessions and food rations
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onto the truck that will carry them back to their village.
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Mohammad and Binesh's reluctance to once again face life without the safety net of the relief effort
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is a typical sentiment of many of the victims.
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We would like people to get back onto their feet.
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And that is why we are moving away from free food to such livelihood programs
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like food for work, cash for work.
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We're looking for a behavioral shift here.
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Start working. That's the only way.
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You can't do it any other way.
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You have to go back and get going.
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Binesh and her family are lucky that their village is reasonably close
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and serviced by a motorable road.
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Kashmir's roads are still scarred by landslides, and many remain impassable.
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After a long trek up the steep and narrow mountain path, the family has finally reached home.
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Binesh and her mother leave the men to unpack as they make the short climb up to their village.
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Not much remains, and the few buildings left standing are largely uninhabitable.
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But as Binesh and her mother make a tour of the sorry ruins of their village,
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at last, a welcome sight.
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Seeing her aunt again brings the first smile in many months to Binesh's face.
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Meeting up with her aunt has given Binesh courage to confront some of her demons,
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and she resolves to take her mother to the site of her former school
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to show her what happened that day.
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That is where I was trapped.
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Under a desk over there.
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There was a big bang, and the walls started falling down.
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Then there was just darkness and screaming.
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Close to the school lies one of the victims, Binesh's favorite teacher,
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who refused to be carried from the rubble until the last child had been rescued.
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But by the time the rescuers got to her, it was too late.
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My teacher told us to study hard, pass our exams and get good jobs, like a teacher or a doctor.
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So Binesh has made a silent promise to her dead teacher to do just that.
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But the physical and psychological devastation of the earthquake
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will make a difficult promise even harder to keep.
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- 26 de junio de 2007 - 16:22
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