Word: muzaffarabad
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...call from a member of the Shriners organization in Los Angeles. It wanted to help the girl. With clues from Yuri's notebooks and the assistance of his contacts in several relief organizations, we located the girl, Insha Afsar, 7, in a camp in Kamsar, just north of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan. TIME news director Howard Chua-Eoan personally paid for her to travel to the U.S. with her father for treatment. The Shriners arranged for free medical care for her, while the Heal the Children Foundation found a family in Connecticut to put up Insha and her father. She has since...
...shovels, bales of wire and plastic tarpaulins?the tools needed to build improvised shelters for survivors whose homes had been shaken into rubble. In late November, he went to check up on five widows for whom he had built lean-tos on a steep mountainside above the city of Muzaffarabad, not far from the quake's epicenter. To his dismay, George discovered that the structures had been torn down and the widows were gone...
...Pakistani-controlled Kashmir were off-limits to outsiders. Called Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir) by the Pakistanis, the area was cordoned off by the army because, in the decades-long conflict with India for control of Kashmir, Azad was an unofficial war zone. The bus stations and grungy hotels of Muzaffarabad swarmed with secret police on the prowl for unwelcome strangers such as journalists, foreign diplomats and Indian spies...
...Axis of Evil" nemesis Iran; U.S. and NATO soldiers flirt with Cuban nurses. But the most surreal partnership of all is between the U.S. military and Islamic militants from groups like Lashkar-e-Toiba, branded by Washington as terrorists. Bemused to find himself at daily briefings in Muzaffarabad with U.S. and NATO military commanders, one Pakistani militant leader, Haji Javed ul-Hassan, remarks: "This is not a battlefield, it is a battle of relief...
...everyone has been so helpful. In supposedly more civilized areas around the towns of Muzaffarabad and Balakot, gangs of thugs attacked aid convoys, stealing supplies for themselves while pushing the injured, women and children aside. In Kala Dhaka, UNICEF dropped off tents for 1,000 families, 2,000 blankets, 1,000 sweaters, 10 tons of wheat, five tons of lentils and five tons of cooking oil?the oil a gift of the U.S., read the labels on boxes. For once, the Kala Dhaka tribes greeted outsiders with grateful smiles?not gunfire...