More than 100,000 survivors yet to receive aid in Pakistan

THE UN said yesterday more than 100,000 Pakistani survivors of the region’s huge October 8 earthquake still have not received any form of aid, and a leading British charity warned of a health crisis from poor sanitation at squalid tent camps for victims.

Families not directly hit by the quake are also in jeopardy, especially in villages that have been isolated by landslides unleashed by the 7.6-magnitude tremor or its more than 1,000 aftershocks, the UN's World Food Program said.

About 70,000 families have homes intact but are unable able to reach provisions they need ahead of the Himalayan region's fierce winter, said the World Food Program's senior food monitor Farman Ullah.