A Glimpse of the present situation

Here is a very brief account of the situation in Azad Jammu Kashmir at Sehri today, the 11th October, 2005

Hundreds of thousands of people have been spending a third cold night out in the open without food and clean water.

One group broke into a petrol station to get fuel to burn wood for cooking and heating, while others stole government cars and jeeps, the agency said.

"People are starving," said survivor Akram Shah. "They have lost all their family members, their belongings.
"Everything is gone, people are buried alive. Nobody is helping us to find them."

The city's assistant commissioner, Masood-ur Rehman, said 90% of victims are still buried under the debris.
"The city is out of order," he said.

The BBC's Aamer Ahmed Khan in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, says shopkeepers have been guarding their stores round the clock and hurling stones at would-be thieves.

Our correspondent says there have been several of cases of looters entering damaged houses and making off with whatever they find.

Despite the international aid pledges, there had been little or no medical attention for many of the injured.
"Most of the people here are cursing the government for still not providing proper attention and we agree with their feelings, " said Ayub, a medical student helping the victims.

Raja Mohamed Irshad, a magistrate in the remote town of Bagh said: "We are not mourning our dead today. We are mourning our ties with the government."