The Pakistani nation, despite being devoid of modern gadgetry and resources, stands up to fight the worst catastrophe of history with bare hands with indigenous tools such as hammer and chisel to rescue their fellow countrymen buried in rubbles of a block of Margala Towers and elsewhere they are doing the same.
They have no complaints, and believe that it was the will of God, irrespective of the fact that each family in some parts of NWFP and Kashmir has lost their kith and kin, and their dead were lying buried in their own houses, and all roads have been blocked by landslides and they are forced to spend cold nights under open skies with their injured relatives.
"It is a whole generation that has been lost while a large number affected was of schoolchildren. Rescuers are pulling out the dead children in Muzaffarabad, Rawalakot, Bagh, and other places but there is no one to claim the bodies. The parents, too, are dead."
The hopes were fading but the parents were scrabbling at the rubble of collapsed schools with their bare hands to find their children.
The remarks of a survivor "We survived the earthquake but now we realise we will die of hunger and cold" has shaken the entire nation and everywhere people have donated everything in cash and kind in such a quantity that has created logistics problems.
In Karachi, hundreds of volunteers are working to pack the relief goods. The relief collecting centres set up by Khidmat-e-Khalq, Al Khidmat and other social welfare organisation have had tremendous response as people were coming with relief items round the clock to mitigate the suffering of people.
A schoolgirl, while moving towards school, donated her pocket money, equalling six cents, and there were other children who were also seen donating their pocket money.
In Hyderabad as elsewhere in urban Sindh people are depositing their relief good and cash, blankets, quilt, non-perishable eating items at relief centres.
These efforts show that the nation has potential to confront such disasters.
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