Pakistan will not forget
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1589879,00.html
Why have US, German and British forces in Afghanistan not been
mobilised to save lives?
Tariq Ali in Lahore
Wednesday October 12, 2005
The Guardian
The scale of the disaster has traumatised the entire country - or
perhaps not quite. Here in Lahore a group of people collecting funds
for earthquake relief were apprehended and charged. They were amassing
money for themselves. Even in the midst of devastation, life goes on.
The global media have descended on the country, their reports repeating
the same images and the same banal comments every few minutes. Soon
they will move on, so that when they are really needed, to monitor
relief efforts and reconstruction or keep watch on the funds, they will
no longer be there. The citizens of the west will also forget. But
Pakistan will never be able to.
Tariq Ali
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