‘This is worse than the tsunami’

THE UN’s top relief official has warned that the aid shortfall for Pakistan’s earthquake victims has led to a logistical nightmare and made the situation worse than after the Indian Ocean tsunami last year.

“This is not enough. We have never had this kind of logistical nightmare ever. We thought the tsunami was the worst we could get. This is worse,” Jan Egeland, the United Nations emergency relief co-ordinator told journalists yesterday.

Mr Egeland said at least half a million people in Pakistani Kashmir were still out of reach in the mountainous region following the 7.6 magnitude earthquake some two weeks ago.