The areas worst affected by the 2005 quake were among the poorest in Pakistan. According to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 43 percent of people in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and 34 percent in the North West Frontier Province lived below the poverty line. The losses inflicted by the natural disaster added immensely to people’s hardship.
Filed under: Alaiwah Notes Tagged: | Earthquake October 2005
