Pakistan: Waterborne diseases - 1,300 suspected cholera cases in Hangu, gastro deaths 200+.

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Water level rises in Jaffarabad
By: Bari Baloch | Published: August 23, 2010
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QUETTA ? The situation of flood affectees in Jaffarabad is getting worse with each passing day as water level is increasing in Dera Allahyar while gastro epidemic has claimed two more lives and affected hundreds of other people.Sources said that several villages of Gandakha have been inundated due to fresh water further augmenting the miseries of the people. They said that still eight to 12 feet water was standing in Dera Allahyar and no efforts were being made to flush out the water from city.
Communication system, electricity and road links of Jaffarabad could not be restored properly and the disconnection of road links is hampering the relief activities. Sources said flood affectees of Jaffarabad District were facing a dearth of food items, clean drinking water and medicines.
Two women died of gastroenteritis in Jaffarabad surging the number of deaths in different areas to 39, while hundreds of other women and children were affected from this disease.
Affectees living in different areas of Naseerabad, including Dera Murad Jamali, complained that they were not provided proper and adequate relief due to which they had to move to Quetta and other cities so that they could find some work to survive.
?We did not get proper relief in Dera Murad Jamali and kept marching until we reached Quetta,? said Aziz, an affected person of Jaffarabad who is temporarily staying with his relatives in Quetta. He said that owing to the wrong policies of the local administration and tribal elders the whole Jaffarabad district had been inundated. ?We have lost every thing and now we are searching for work,? he added.
On the other hand, relief and rescue activities have been continuing in different affected areas.
Official sources said the Army had set up tent villages in Dera Murad Jamali and Dera Allahyar where affectees were being provided cooked food and medical treatment.

http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Politics/23-Aug-2010/Water-level-rises-in-Jaffarabad

Monday, August 23, 2010
Floodwater level rises by 15ft in Jaffarabad, 52 killed

QUETTA: After the entrance of more flood tides from three sides into Jaffarabad, water level has risen by 13-15 feet in many areas, particularly in the district headquarters Dera Allah Yar, while a Provincial District Management Authority-compiled report confirmed the displacement of 1.1 million people and deaths of 40 persons by raging floods in Balochistan. On Sunday, dozens of flood victims ? most of them children suffering from gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases ? were brought to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta hospitals. Doctors told media that due to acute shortage of required medicines at the hospitals and medical camps, fear of deaths of a large number of such patients had emerged. During the last few days after the worst-ever floods hit Balochistan?s districts, over 52 persons infected with waterborne diseases have died, the major cause of which is being said to be the non-provision of timely medical treatment and non-availability of necessary medicines at camps and hospitals. app

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?21 people died in Sindh rains and floods so far?
Flood survivors take care of a sick child at a makeshift tent camp in Razzakabad. PHOTO: AFP
KARACHI: Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed said on Sunday that 21 people have died in the province during the 21 days of rain and floods.

?Around 0.3 million has fallen ill with various diseases and if proper sanitation facilities and clean drinking water is not provided to the survivors, 3.5 million lives could be lost,? the minister said while addressing a press conference at the Sindh Secretariat. The minister said from July 31 till Aug 20, there were 63,331 cases of diarrhea, 14,247 of gastroenteritis, 57,368 of chest diseases, 43,002 of malaria, 69,599 of skin diseases 1,647 of heart strokes, 25,396 of eye ailments, and 99,581 of other diseases. Besides, 173 people were bitten by snakes, out of which one of them died.
He the number of waterborne disease patients is rising with each passing day, and more fund are required to fulfill the healthcare requirements of the survivors.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 23rd, 2010.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/42037/%E2%80%9821-people-died-in-sindh-rains-and-floods-so-far%E2%80%99/

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Health crisis grows in Pakistan
News item 25 August 2010 Latest news

As the floods in Pakistan continue, the full impact on people?s health in Pakistan is beginning to unfold.

UNICEF is aware of over 200,000 confirmed cases of acute diarrhoea, 263,000 cases of skin diseases and over 200,000 acute respiratory infection cases diagnosed in flood affected areas across Pakistan. The threat of further spread of these and other waterborne diseases in the flood affected areas remains a huge concern.

For example, in one health clinic in Punjab over 80% of people were suffering from acute diarrhoea.

David Bull, Executive Director of UNICEF UK said, "UNICEF urgently needs to be able to increase the speed of delivery and quantity of aid. In the next few days, UNICEF will be issuing a new fundraising appeal which is likely to very significantly increase the amount of money we need to continue our immediate life saving work. 3.5 million children are at severe risk of disease and malnutrition and we need to reach more of these children soon."

UNICEF vaccination programmes have reached more than 770,000 women and children so far. 1.9 million people are receiving safe drinking water provided through UNICEF and partners who have also distributed 450,000 water cleaning tablets and sachets.

According to latest Government reports, 17 million people are affected. UNICEF is still trying to reach the most severely affected population of approximately 8 million, including at least 3.5 million children. Approximately 1,500 people have been reported dead and 2,000 injured.

In parts of Sindh and Balochistan, the number of affected population is expected to increase as the flood water enters new areas, submerging additional villages. In some parts of the mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan flash floods have washed away valley roads and bridges. People are cut-off and need relief supplies and services by helicopters.

http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/news_detail_full_story.asp?news_id=1569

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Gastro claims 76 lives in Sindh

LAHORE: The death toll from gastroenteritis has risen to 76 across Sindh, as another patient died on Wednesday at a flood relief camp in Karachi, a private TV channel reported on Wednesday. The increasing number of deaths from gastroenteritis is being blamed on unhygienic food, contaminated water and bad sanitary conditions at relief camps situated in the flood-affected areas. Kashmore district is the worst-hit area by the gastro epidemic, where at least 54 people have died due to the disease in the past weeks. Thousands of people have been affected with various skin and stomach diseases. They are admitted to private and government hospitals in the affected districts, the channel said. The hospitals are facing a shortage of medicines and doctors. daily times monitor

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C26%5Cstory_26-8-2010_pg1_2

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Gastro, cholera claim 12 more lives in Balochistan

QUETTA: At least 12 more people including eight children lost their lives on Tuesday due to gastroenteritis, cholera and other epidemics in flood affected-areas of Balochistan.
A report said that three children had died in district headquarters hospital in Dera Murad Jamali where hundreds of affected people had been admitted. In a relief camp at a bypass in Quetta, two children who were suffering from gastroenteritis and Malaria had died.

Another child was also died in gastroenteritis in Khuzdar. Official sources said that several people were suffering from gastroenteritis and other diseases in the affected areas. At least eight persons, including two children, died of cholera and other epidemics in Jaffarabad.

The level of the floodwater in Dera Allah Yar is constantly rising, and the district is disconnected with other parts of country for last 11 days while abject scarcity of drinking water and shortage of food and medicines have let situation go from bad to worse. staff report/app

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C25%5Cstory_25-8-2010_pg7_6

QUETTA: Six more children suffering from gastroenteritis died in Quetta and Dera Murad Jamali on Tuesday, increasing the death toll to 57 during the past week.
Three children died in district headquarters hospital where hundreds of affected people had been admitted. ?The situation is worse in Dera Murad Jamali. There is a dearth of food and clean drinking water. The death toll may increase considerably,? an official at the hospital said, adding that more doctors had not been sent due to handle the problem.However, a Turkish Field Hospital with equipment and medicine has been established in Dera Murad Jamali.

Separately, two children died in a relief camp in Quetta. Both children were suffering from gastroenteritis and malaria, an official said. The victims belonged to Dera Allahyar.

Another child died from gastroenteritis in Khuzdar. Six people, including a child, suffering from gastroenteritis had been admitted in divisional headquarters hospital Khuzdar two days ago. ?A young baby lost his life on Tuesday,? a doctor said when contacted.

Officials said that thousands of people, mostly women and children suffering from gastroenteritis and other diseases have been admitted in government run-hospital in Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta, where people are dying every day. The main cases of diseases are said to be unhygienic conditions and dearth of clean drinking water and food. The provincial government has failed to provide doctors in the flood-hit regions. It is also reluctant to dispatch medicines to the Health Department

Sindh Health Minister Dr Sagheer Ahmed said that 35 people have died due to diseases so far, of which 23 have died because of gastroenteritis. (WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT)

Published in The Express Tribune, August 25th, 2010.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/42643/six-more-die-from-gastroenteritis/

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Floods in Pakistan
Bulletin No 14
25 August 2010

Highlights
? Government of Pakistan announces on 24 August measures to strengthen
coordination and activities, including disease surveillance, to respond to health
impacts of flood emergency.
? Increasing numbers of cases of diarrhoeal disease, acute respiratory infections,
skin diseases and malaria are being reported, with growing concerns about the
overall situation in Sindh and Punjab provinces.
? At least 380 health facilities damaged or destroyed by flooding.
? 21 diarrhoeal disease centres operating, through USAID/OFDA funding, in
affected districts of KPK, Punjab and Sindh provinces, with more being set up.
? Health Cluster coordination active in 5 hubs - Islamabad, Peshawar, Multan,
Sukkur, Quetta.
? 39% of the US$56.2 million requested to support the health response has been
funded, according to OCHA as of 23 August.
? On 23 August, 101,925 patient were treated in flood affected districts. Of these
consultations, 25,476 cases of skin infections (24% of total), 16,469 cases of
acute respiratory infections (16%), 14,008 cases of acute diarrhoea (14%) and
4966 cases of suspected malaria (5%) were reported.

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Between 29 July to 21 August, a total of 2,394,492 patients? consultations were reported from the affected districts. Of these consultations, 314,814 cases of acute diarrhoea (13% of total consultations), 317,450 cases of Acute Respiratory Infection (13% of total consultations), 421,198 cases of skin infections (18% of total consultations) and 53,707 cases of suspected malaria (2% of total consultations) were reported from the flood-affected districts.
? The number of cases of suspected malaria is rising in Baluchistan and Sindh provinces compared to KPK and Punjab. During the last 24 hours, the number of cases reported from suspected malaria comprised 17% of patients? consultations in Baluchistan province and 11% in Sindh.

full report at; http://www.whopak.org/idps/documents...4%20250810.pdf

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Stench of dead bodies was overpowering?

Sonya RehmanFirst Published : 29 Aug 2010 11:23:00 AM ISTLast Updated : 28 Aug 2010 06:47:10 PM IST

On August 20, Farzana ? a flood survivor ? perished from gastroenteritis in the city of Lahore. She was 18. Having fled from her submerged village in Muzaffargarh (a district in Punjab province) Farzana, along with her father, had taken refuge at her uncle?s home in Lahore.


But it was too late. There are thousands of people like Farzana, victims of serious water-borne diseases ? such as gastroenteritis and cholera ? in the aftermath of the worst floods to have ever hit Pakistan. The destruction is far worse than the 2005 earthquake which killed 75,000 and left many more thousands homeless.

So far, at least 1,500 people have died in the floods and millions have been left destitute and stranded. Their lands and crops have been destroyed. They?ve lost everything ? their loved ones, their cattle and all their possessions.

On his recent visit to Pakistan, the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon stated: ?I will never forget the destruction and suffering I have witnessed today. In the past I have witnessed many natural disasters around the world, but nothing like this.?

People who have seen the destruction up close each have their own horror stories.

Faisal Kapadia, who works in Karachi, visited Sukkur ? a city in Sindh province. Of his experience, Kapadia stated: ?It was like something out of a painting of Dante?s hell ? roads lined on both sides with thousands of people lying in the mud without shelter in 48OC heat.

?There was no sanitation and people were scrounging for food.?

Kapadia also visited Shikarpur (also in Sindh) and saw the army urging people to leave. A mass evacuation was underway since the entire area was submerged.

?Inundated, villages and roads were washed away,? Kapadia said, ?The stench of dead bodies was unbearable, overpowering.?

Khurram Siddiqi, a young professional living in Lahore recently visited Kot Addu in Muzaffargarh with some friends. Partnering with the PWP (Pakistan Wetlands Program), they travelled by truck with food and relief supplies.

?It?s not as easy or as organised as you?d imagine when you head out; not everyone?s sitting there in a camp, like on CNN, waiting for you to deliver supplies,? Siddiqi says. ?This flood has been so

unpredictable that people have moved to save their lives wherever they could find higher ground ? and many are ending up just stuck in those new fields because they can?t go anywhere. So in our case, we really had to search them out, over a very large area.?

Even though many individuals are being proactive in the matter collecting aid and supplies, Siddiqi decries the weaknesses in the planning and logistics regarding reaching out to the flood victims.

He worries that relief efforts might result in emotional and physical fatigue once the real test begins, which is ?the reconstruction and prevention of disease, whenever the waters recede.?

It is true. The real challenge will come in the aftermath of the floods when rebuilding what has been washed away and lost for good begins. The mammoth rehabilitation process in the months and years to come remains daunting.

It?s in the back of everyone's mind, but no one knows how that will work out.

http://expressbuzz.com/magazine/%E2%80%98stench-of-dead-bodies-was-overpowering%E2%80%99/201332.html

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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Cholera breaks out in Hangu

HANGU: At least 1,370 cases of cholera have been reported in recent days in Hangu, health authorities said on Friday. According to Executive District Officer (Health) Dr Muhammad Ishaq, the waterborne disease has broken out due to torrential rains in the area. He said most of the patients were children, women and elderly people. He said medical teams had been sent to the affected areas to control the situation. The general public in the affected areas said the disease was growing fast and the Health Department had failed to take any concrete steps. staff report

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C28%5Cstory_28-8-2010_pg7_11

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3-year-old girl dies of gastro at relief camp

KARACHI: A minor girl died of a stomach disease at the Razzakabad relief camp on Saturday. The three-year-old girl Farzana, from Jacobabad, was suffering from gastroenteritis. Bin Qasim Town Health Officer Younus Chandio said she did not die at the camp, adding that two days ago the girl was referred to the National Institute of Child Health due to a chest infection. However, her parent on Saturday asked the doctor to discharge her and the girl expired on their way back to the camp, he said. ppi

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C29%5Cstory_29-8-2010_pg12_7

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Six die of gastroenteritis in Upper Dir By Syed Zahid Jan
Sunday, 29 Aug, 2010

Pakistan
UPPER DIR: Gastroenteritis has broken out in Upper Dir district, claiming the lives of six persons and landing thousands others, including children, in the hospitals.

According to health authorities, gastro has hit several areas of the district. However, they denied the reports of cholera outbreak in any area.

They confirmed that four persons, including a child, had been killed by gastro.

The disease is not confined to any particular area but hit several villages and towns of the district. Earlier, the district was lashed by torrential monsoon rains, killing dozens of people and washing away bridges and other infrastructure.

Health authorities told Dawn that more than 3,000 people, including children and women, had been hospitalised. They said the gastro patients were being treated at the emergency wards and provided with free of cost medicines.

Mukhtarullah, a former nazim of Union Council Sawni, said his area had been gripped by gastro which had killed six persons including a child. However, Executive District Officer (EDO) Health Dr Hidayat-ur-Rehman said four persons had died of the disease.

The EDO said the victims included little Sana and three women from Sharmai and Petawo banda. He brushed aside reports of cholera outbreak. “We sent a team of doctors and paramedics to Pitao Banda and Sharmai (villages of union council Sawni) to check up patients and analyse the situation,” the EDO said.

He said the team examined around 1,500 people but it did not find symptoms of cholera. Most of the people were affected by gastro, he added. Several areas in Barawal have also been hit by the disease. District Coordination Officer (DCO) Ghulam Mohammad visited Barawal hospital and directed the staff to take care of the patients and provide them free of cost free medicines.

He said if more medicines were needed, the administration would provide them to the hospital to ensure treatment. The gravity of the situation also brought Federal Minister for Safron Najmuddin Khan to the DHQ hospital. He visited the patients and directed the health authorities to ensure proper treatment.

The DHQ is the main health facility in the district of 700,000 population. The minister on the occasion termed the issue of lack of doctors in the hospital as a “serious problem.”

“We have been facing this situation for quite a long time and it is because of that no doctor is willing to come to Dir for being a remote area.

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/six-die-of-gastroenteritis-980

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Pakistan Health Cluster
Floods in Pakistan
Bulletin No 15
29 August 2010
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/rwb.nsf/db900sid/MCOI-88SKRB/$File/full_report.pdf


-Excerpts-


Situation overview and current scale of disaster
? According to OCHA, 17.2 million people have been affected by the floods, with Pakistan officials stating number of affected could be upwards of 20 million. 1600 people have been reported killed and more than 2366 injured, while 1.2 million homes have been destroyed, as of 27 August. Floodwaters in Punjab are reportedly receding. Monsoon activity is expected to be subdued during next 3-4 days. Further OCHA information, go to: http://tinyurl.com/32n9rjj
Health impact
? Health needs remain great as relief efforts strive to cope with the scale of the challenges. Large numbers of peoplecontinue being treated for diarrhoeal disease cases, skin diseases, acute respiratory and increasingly, malaria.
? 402 of more than 1000 health facilities in flood-affected districts have been damaged or destroyed by the flooding.
? Latest epidemiological data released by WHO, as of 27 August, shows that on 26 August, 133,684 patients wererecorded as having been treated in flood affected districts. Of these consultations, 28,815 cases of skin diseases (22%
of total), 22,902 cases of acute respiratory infections (17%), 19,178 cases of acute diarrhoea (14%) and 7973 cases of suspected malaria (6%) were reported.
? In all, 3.7 million people are reported to have been treated from 29 July to, and including, 23 August. Of these, there were 500,635 cases of acute diarrhoea (13% of total consultations), 517,929 cases of acute respiratory infection (14% of total consultations), 693,114 cases of skin infections (19% of total consultations) and 94,186 cases of suspected malaria (3% of total consultations) were reported from flood-affected districts.
? The number of cases of suspected malaria is rising in Baluchistan and Sindh provinces compared to KPK and Punjab. During the last 24 hours, the number of cases reported from suspected malaria comprised 27% of patients?
consultations in both Baluchistan and Sindh provinces.

WHO's weekly disease surveillance document id as: http://www.whopak.org/idps/diseases_situation.asp#ds

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12 washed away, 79 killed in Jaffarabad

QUETTA: Five flood victims, including four children and a woman, died of gastroenteritis in Jaffarabad district of Balochistan on Sunday pushing the number of deaths caused by gastro and other waterborne diseases in Jaffarabad and Nasirabad districts to 79. Dozens of flood victims suffering form gastroenteritis had been admitted to hospitals after an outbreak in Dera Murad Jamali, Gandakha, Dargah Fatahpur and Jhal Magsi. Meanwhile, floods washed away 12 people in Gandhaka early on Sunday. In a flood-related development, the Hairdin Drain Sim Canal developed a breach at Goth Muhammad Umar Khosa in Jaffarabad wreaking havoc in Goth Muhammad Umar Khosa, Goth Munir Ahmed Khosa, Goth Raheem Khan Khosa, Goth Mir Muhammad Khosa, Goth Khairwah, Goth Khairpur, Goth Jamal Bugti and other villages. app

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C30%5Cstory_30-8-2010_pg1_2

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Gastro claims more lives in Pakistan
Mon Aug 30, 2010 6:26AM

Contaminated water has affected the life and health of flood-hit Pakistanis, claiming the lives of six more people, including one child, in the Upper Dir district.


At least six people have died in a gastroenteritis outbreak in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, previously known as the Northwest Frontier Province, bringing the death toll from water-borne diseases to more than 80.

According to Pakistani health authorities, nearly 3,000 others have been hospitalized due to the outbreak brought on by the worst flooding in the nation's history -- a disaster which has claimed over 1,600 lives so far.

?Over the past three days Sajwal city and dozens of villages in the South have been deluged with the floods and 350 more villages have been submerged near the Indus River,? Hany el-Banna, head of the Islamic Relief Organization in Islamabad, told Press TV on Monday.

With 20 percent of the country under water for the past four weeks, the floods have already forced over a third of Sindh's 20 million residents to flee the area, he noted.

Though some 200,000 tents are currently available, Banna said that up to a million tents are now needed. He further added that between 700,000 and 800,000 people remain stranded in the very remote areas of the north where the weather is very cold.

Muslim countries, organizations and individuals have pledged nearly $1 billion in cash and relief supplies to help Pakistan respond to the floods, Banna said.

Meanwhile, Pakistani troops and rescue workers are trying to save the southern city of Thatta in Sindh province which is located in the path of the continuing flood.

RA/RZS/TG/HRF

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/140561.html

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5 more children die of gastro in Kandhkot
Upadated on: 30 Aug 10 02:08 PM


Staff Report

KANDHKOT: Five more children have died of gastroenteritis in flood-hit Kandhkot, the death toll from gastroenteritis has reached 63 in District Kashmore, said sources Monday.

At least 63 people including 40 children have died of gastroenteritis in District Kashmore over the last 24 days. But no rescue or medical team has been sent yet.

According to rescue officials, over 30,000 people are affected by gastroenteritis, including children and women.

The increasing number of deaths from gastroenteritis is being blamed on unhygienic food, contaminated water and bad sanitary conditions at relief camps situated in flood-affected areas.

Kashmore district is the worst-hit area by the epidemic, at least 63 people have died due to the disease in the past weeks. Thousands of people have been affected with various skin and stomach diseases. They are admitted to private and government hospitals in the affected districts; hospitals are facing a shortage of medicines and doctors.

Several deaths caused by waterborne diseases such as gastroenteritis and cholera have been reported from the northwest and central parts of the country. SAMAA

http://www.samaa.tv/News24826-5_more_children_die_of_gastro_in_Kandhkot.aspx

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8 die from gastro in Dera Murad Jamali

QUETTA: At least eight people, including six children, suffering from gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases have lost their lives during two days in Dera Murad Jamali while hundreds of affectees were being treated in hospitals and field hospitals by the Army Medical Corps.

According to sources, the epidemics broke out in Dera Murad Jamali and adjoining areas where a large number of affected people had taken shelter. More than 1.4 million people had been dislodged due to the floods and had no access to clean water, food and medical facilities. ?Three to four patients, including women and children, are dieing on a daily basis,? sources at a hospital told this scribe. He said that the flood affectees had been suffering from gastroenteritis and other waterborne diseases. According to sources, 85 people had lost their lives in Dera Murad Jamali since floods hit the area. mohammad zafar

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C31%5Cstory_31-8-2010_pg7_30