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Taliban asks charities for help in quake-hit Pakistan, Afghanistan

by PH October 27, 2015, 12:05 pm

A woman carries her salvaged goods through the rubble of destroyed houses following a massive earthquake in the town of Longtoushan in Ludian County in southwest China's Yunnan Province Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2014. Some 10,000 troops and hundreds of volunteers have rushed to Ludian to clear roads and dig out possible survivors from the debris, but landslides and bouts of heavy rains have complicated rescue efforts. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Islamabad – The Taliban asks humanitarian and aid agencies to continue to deliver emergency supplies to earthquake victims in remote areas of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The group “calls on our good willed countrymen and charitable organisations to not hold back in providing shelter, food and medical supplies to the victims of this earthquake,” it said in a statement.

“It similarly orders its mujahideen [fighters] in the affected areas to lend their complete help to the victims and facilitate those giving charity to the needy,” it said.

A large part of north-eastern Afghanistan is under Taliban writ, making it hard for government authorities to carry out relief work.