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Monday, October 24, 2005

Pakistan’s Great Display of Unity Amidst Earthquake Relief

via www.nytimes.com

In what some Pakistanis are calling the greatest display of national unity in their country's 58-year-history, thousands of volunteers from across the country spontaneously collected vast amounts of food, clothing and medicine and rushed it to northern Pakistan after the severe earthquake of Oct. 8. The piles are the product of an impromptu grass-roots relief effort that Pakistanis say they have never seen before. Hundreds of miles south of the earthquake zone, in the southern port of city of Karachi, schoolchildren and families formed human chains to load donated goods into cargo planes…

 
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