Pick up the pieces of Plastic Card
Numerous statistics have been produced to illustrate the IPAD ACCESSORIES of the flooding in Pakistan but in the end it comes down to people like Nazia and Salma Gul, young women whose passing might easily go un-noticed in a country where, when it comes to the poor, life is cheap.
“They were illiterate,” says Mr Gul, sitting on one of the simple wooden beds salvaged from his house, now half buried in thick black mud. It seems a harsh way to introduce one’s lost plastic mold but this is the tribal area of north-west Pakistan, where literacy, or its lack, is simply a way of defining someone, placing them in their social context.
“They were near to my heart. I try to forget blowers because in this situation we cannot ourselves survive – our home is destroyed and we are living outside – but still I’m not in a position to forget them.”
Mr Gul, a Pashtun, sits on his bed in the open air, mud caking his feet, looking a decade older than his 60 years. Neighbours of his in the village of Sardaryab, a small community in Charsadda, one of the hardest-hit districts in Wireless IP Camera, gather round, curious to see who has taken an interest in this now-wretched place. The source of Mr Gul’s sorrow, the Swat River, thunders nearby, fierce still a fortnight after first breaking its banks, obliterating people, animals and homes.