Multan: flood relief goods deteriorating in ware house
Due to negligence of the district administration, relief goods worth million of rupees accumulated for the flood victims has not been distributed while thousands of flour bags have started detriorating. The relief goods were brought and stored in the ware house in Multan for the flood affected people, Dunya News reported on Tuesday.
It was learnt that the Red Crescent Society also gave a huge quantity of quilts, mineral water bottles, biscuits and flour bags. All the goods were stored in the ware house but due to unidentified reasons the goods were not distributed amongst the needy and the affected. Infact the goods have started deteriorating especially the flour bags. EDO/R Multan Javed Akhter has said that the flour bags were not distributed amongst the flood affected people but they were provided with cooked food. Before this incident Duna News had pointed out such type of incidents in Mandi Bahauddin and Jahng but the provincial government did not pay heed to those news.
Strike cuts fuel to Paris airports
About 250 striking airport workers blocked Paris’ Orly airport forcing substantial delays to flights as part of the growing series of wildcat actions by strikers protesting government plans to raise the retirement age by two years to 62.
Paris’ main airport for charter and domestic flights was temporarily brought to a halt by the action, which forced some departing passengers to carry their bags along motorway central reservations for the last half-kilometre trip to the airport. Inside the terminal, riot police patrolled as information screens began to turn red with the list of delayed flights.
Outside the terminal, protesters chanted demands for a general strike to convince the government to withdraw its plan, which it says is essential to ensure the long-term health of one of Europe’s most generous pension systems.
We’re out on strike in support of the measures on retirement. What’s more, we do jobs that are pretty difficult, we fix the planes, we do strange hours, the cleaning of the aircraft, their panting, working with toxic products. And for the moment, we can leave aged 60. But if Sarkozy’s plan goes through it’s going to be 62. And we don’t want to die at work, said Joel Le Jannic, a union shop steward at Air France.
The protests have become the biggest challenge facing the centre-right president, who is struggling with rock-bottom popularity ratings as he tries to appease financial markets by stemming a ballooning pension shortfall.
Crime adds to misery for Pakistan’s flood victims
September 16, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
MEHMOOD KOT: Crime and the sale of donated aid supplies are undermining the aid effort for Pakistan’s flood victims.
In Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s provincial capital Peshawar, flour bags and tins of cooking oil bearing the logos of international aid agencies like the World Food Prgramme and USAID are openly on sale.
“We bought them from the victims,” said shopkeeper Abdul Ghafoor, who owns a shop in Peshawar’s Gur Mandi. “They get money and buy something else which they need more.”
“It cannot happen without officials’ involvement,” said another shopkeeper, Rahimullah Khan. “Victims cannot bring a truck full of supplies here.”
One Reuters reporter saw flour being unloaded in a market from a truck labelled “Relief Goods for Flood Affected People, from Muslim Charity UK”.
The goods are then sold at cheaper prices than usual.
“I can save 300
Two women die in Karachi stampede
August 20, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
By Imtiaz Shah
KARACHI: KARACHI: A stampede among hundreds of poor women scrambling for free food and Zakat money at a camp killed two women Friday at Korangi 100 Quarters.
The camp was set up by a philanthropist, who distributes free flour bags and Zakat among poor women every year.
Hundreds of women turned up at the camp in a bid to get the bags of flour and money. However, the situation turned chaotic following a brawl among some of the women.
Several women fell unconscious due to suffocation. They were rushed to Jinnah Hospital, where two of them identified as Malooka and Shamsa, could not survive.
According to an eyewitness, the stampede took place due to the rush. An elderly lady narrated these scenes of chaos and panic witnessed at the camp.
Last Ramadan, over a dozen women were killed and several others wounded in a stampede
The Chuck Norris Heart Failure Norris Death
Chuck Norris, just turned 67 in March Died two hours after being admitted to the Morton Plant Hospital in Florida. He was vacationing in Clearwater, FL. when witness Thomas Scott said, “He just fell off of the jet ski, the Scuba rental manager came out and pulled him back to shore. An ambulance was there within 5 minutes and took him away.”
Today is April Fools Day. it is amazing to see people still get some prank that is actually all been known for so long. Today’s latest prank that got the spike on Google Trends is Chuck Norris is Dead! I searched infos and there are so many people searching about Chuck Norris death. People are also tweeting about it. What duh! By the way, Chuck Norris died many years ago according to one site after turning 67.
Chuck Norris does not hunt because the word hunting infers the probability of failure. Chuck Norris goes killing. If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you. If you can’t see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death. Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn’t stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month. When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris.
Carlos Ray “Chuck” Norris left behind a loving wife and 5 children. Chuck was an outspoken conservative republican and was very vocal with his views.
American Idol Didi Benami Goes Home Broken Hearted
“American Idol” finalist Didi Benami might be pretty broken hearted after her Top 10 performance. The 1966 hit by Jimmy Ruffin was, ahem, pretty rough for Didi Benami. It didn’t suit her voice one bit and while we admire her choosing something that means something to her, she should probably pack her bags.
What did you guys think? Will Didi stick around? There were other not-so-hot performances but we think Didi really took the cake tonight. Plus, the voters were probably too blinded by her sparkly dress to read her phone number off the screen. American Idol voters send home Didi Benami, whenever Tim Urban has been in the bottom 3 for the third week now with Katie Stevens. So why did Tim Urban get to stay when the American Idol judges keep bashing him every single week. The judges obviously don’t think Tim Urban has the ability to stay on American Idol.
It’s on to the next one, though, for Lee Dewyze, Casey James, Aaron Kelly and Siobhan Magnus, who survived after her wobbly take on Chaka Khan’s “Through the Fire” elicited a thumbs-down across the board from the judges. Also safe were Crystal Bowersox, Andrew Garcia and Michael Lynche, who celebrated his luck with a near body slam of Ryan Seacrest after the host tried to fake him out.
The sojourn in the cellar was short for Stevens, who was the first one sent back to safety, followed by the seemingly bulletproof Urban, who busted out his signature smile upon hearing the news. Benami gave it one more chance, taking another swing at her well-received folky ramble through Fleetwood Mac’s “Rhiannon,” which she imbued with the coffeehouse flavor that made the judges fall in love with her the first time. Though she flubbed a note near the end, the performance was a mostly strong one, but, alas, not enough to keep her in the mix.
Laura Bush Killed A Guy Update
Laura Bush Killed A Guy Update, As the Bush family prepares to pack their bags and head back to Texas, some of the retrospectives have been looking at both George W Bush and wife Laura Bush’s pasts, and some media reports and an episode of The Family Guy mentioned the fact that Laura Bush killed a guy.
It’s a sad s
tory, but also completely true: First Lady Laura Bush did kill a guy, although a very long time ago.
In 1963 when then 17, Laura Bush ran a stop sign in a crash that killed a friend in another car. Some reports say it was her then boyfriend in the other car. The police report was released in 2000, and noted that Laura wasn’t charged with a crime for the death.
“It was a terrible, terrible thing,” she said. “I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing … for the family involved and for me as well.”
Laura Bush Killed A Guy Update was first posted on October 30, 2009 at 11:47 am.
Laura Bush Killed A Guy
As the Bush family prepares to pack their bags and head back to Texas, some of the retrospectives have been looking at both George W Bush and wife Laura Bush’s pasts, and some media reports and an episode of The Family Guy mentioned the fact that Laura Bush killed a guy.
It’s a sad story, but also completely true: First Lady Laura Bush did kill a guy, although a very long time ago.
In 1963 when then 17, Laura Bush ran a stop sign in a crash that killed a friend in another car. Some reports say it was her then boyfriend in the other car. The police report was released in 2000, and noted that Laura wasn’t charged with a crime for the death.
“It was a terrible, terrible thing,” she said. “I know this as an adult, and even more as a parent, it was crushing … for the family involved and for me as well.”
The big question though is why she wasn’t charged way back then. Perhaps the rich got even better treatment in Texas back in 63.
Laura Bush Killed A Guy was first posted on September 7, 2009 at 11:05 am.
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