Pakistan has decided to shift a quake-devastated city to a new location after experts declared any new construction dangerous, a Cabinet minister said today.

THE head of the UN refugee agency, stunned by the damage in earthquake-ravaged northern Pakistan, warned yesterday that urgent work is needed to avert further tragedy as troops race against time to get aid to the most vulnerable before the frigid Himalayan winter sets in.

Hollywood superstars Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt made a low-key visit to earthquake-ravaged northern Pakistan today, UN refugee agency officials said.

The head of the UN refugee agency, stunned by the damage in earthquake-ravaged northern Pakistan, warned that urgent work is needed to avert further tragedy as troops race against time to get aid to the most vulnerable before the frigid Himalayan winter sets in.

Actress Angelina Jolie today visited earthquake-ravaged northern Pakistan, the UN refugee agency official said.

NEARLY six weeks after Pakistan’s killer earthquake, people with untreated injuries are still being brought down from remote mountain settlements.

The US military resumed relief flights in northern Pakistan today but would stay a “safe distance” from where one of its choppers allegedly came under attack as it ferried supplies to victims of the massive earthquake in divided Kashmir, a spokesman said.

NEW casualty figures from the South Asian earthquake have pushed the death toll to more than 79,000.

New figures released by regional officials today pushed the death toll in South Asia’s earthquake to more than 79,000.

A halt in heavy rains today allowed helicopter relief flights to resume across Pakistan’s quake zone, but fresh landslides hampered efforts to move supplies by road and officials estimated the death toll could now be more than 54,000.

OFFICIALS last night sharply raised estimates of the dead from Pakistan’s monster quake to more than 54,000, while bad weather heaped more misery on hundreds of thousands of homeless survivors.

Rescuers today pulled a baby girl from the rubble of her home in Pakistan eight days after an earthquake killed tens of thousands of people, the military said.

Torrential downpours today threatened to cause crucial delays in quake relief efforts in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, where only a fraction of the tents needed for an estimated 2.3 million people left homeless have been provided as winter nears.

HEAVY rain and hail forced the cancellation of some relief flights to earthquake-stricken regions yesterday and survivors scuffled over the badly needed food.

Trucks of aid arrived in the ruined capital of Pakistan-ruled Kashmir today, and victims scuffled for badly needed food and blankets three days after a devastating earthquake flattened whole communities, killing tens of thousands and leaving millions homeless.

IT was just before 9am and 17-year-old Uzair Mohammed Qureshi was reading his chemistry book as the ground began to shake.

Pakistani troops aided by French experts today rescued 40 children and pulled 60 bodies from the rubble of a school that collapsed in the massive South Asian earthquake, according to a military official and a TV station.

Aircraft rushed in supplies from abroad and the US pledged $50m (€41.5m) in aid today as hungry families displaced in Pakistan’s worst earthquake huddled in tents and shopkeepers clashed with looters. Death toll estimates ranged from 20,000 to above 30,000.

Injured and hungry, families huddled under makeshift tents waiting for relief supplies today after Pakistan’s worst earthquake wiped out entire villages, buried roads in rubble and knocked out electricity and water supplies. The death toll ranged from 20,000 and 30,000 and is expected to rise.

RESCUERS struggled to reach remote, mountainous areas and stricken residents of a devastated city scavenged for food and gasoline yesterday, a day after a massive earthquake struck Pakistan and India.

A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake reduced villages to rubble in Pakistan and India on today, killing hundreds of people. Pakistan’s army described the damage as widespread and said it included villages buried in quake-induced landslides.

A magnitude 7.6 earthquake jolted south Asia today, killing at least 21 people and injuring hundreds of others in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India.

Dozens of people are feared dead after a major earthquake struck parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and northern India.

At least 24 people died when a 4x4 packed with passengers drove off a mountain road and a crowded pick-up truck rammed into another vehicle in north-western Pakistan today, police said.