Pakistan - Islamabad & Kashmir
13-16 March - Earthquake Zone
The 7.8 on the Richter Scale earthquake which hit north-eastern Pakistan on 8 October last year killed 73,000 people, damaged or destroyed 80% of the buildings in large parts of the zone and left three million people homeless. The Lonely Planet foundation has been a supporter of Australian Aid International in their work iafter the earthquake plus a couple of LPers from our Melbourne office have volunteered to go up to Kashmir to work with AAI. Maureen and I are in Pakistan to look at what they’ve been doing...
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