A WHOLE generation had been wiped out in the areas most devastated by the weekend’s huge earthquake in Pakistan, a military spokesman said yesterday, as UNICEF estimated up to 40,000 had been killed in the disaster.

THE earthquake rattled dinnerware and nerves from Kabul to New Delhi, sending panicked city dwellers tumbling into streets where trees and utility poles danced and the pavement swayed sickeningly underfoot.

THE earthquake rattled dinnerware and nerves from Kabul to New Delhi, sending panicked city dwellers tumbling into streets where trees and utility poles danced and the pavement swayed sickeningly underfoot.

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.