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This is my 17th trip to Afghanistan in 5 years. Much has changed (for the better) in Kabul but so much has remained the same or regressed in remote areas. The airport is brand new, paid for by the Japanese but the attitudes of personnel remain ancient as perhaps the city itself. All 5 immigration […]
Pakistan Disaster – 1000 Home Building Project: There are about 6 million destitute Pakistanis out on the streets, in very venerable and precarious conditions, among squalor and despair. Here is a great opportunity for you to extend a helping hand of care and compassion. CAI is targeting the rebuilding of 1,000 homes from existing ruins, […]
Pakistan Drowns – A Personal Experience: I was very fortunate to be the first few individuals to visit remote Pakistan flood disaster areas between September 4 – 8; in some instances first outsiders the victims had encountered. What I saw and experienced, I would wish on nobody. May Allah (S) keep us all safe against […]
The Queen Is Dead! Queen Elizabeth II died peacefully on September 8, 2022; I’ve heard and read of very little else since then. Bapre. You’d think the world was about to end. Okay, so, almost all of us know who she was, as she reigned over more than a billion people of the Commonwealth at […]
Floods in Pakistan and Leh, India – A Catasrophe: Pakistan: I will, insha’Allah, be in Pakistan September 05, 2010 and submit a detailed report on the situation there and account for your contributions. CAI has advanced USD50,000 to Hussein Foundation in Pakistan for relief work (mostly purchase of food grains and emergency shelter) for the […]
Part Two. Death, decay and despair. The district of Ladakh in Indian Kashmir is beautiful, simply beautiful. Kargil and Leh comprise Ladekh with a combined population of about 300,000 people spread over a very large mountainous area. The religious (mostly harmonious) divide is 52% (mostly Shiite) Muslims, 45% Buddhist and 3% others. Very much like […]
Part One. Perhaps this is why Pakistan is in such a mess…? Reports are pouring in about death, maim, unimaginable anguish and heartbreak for peoples of Pakistan and Leh, going through devastating flooding and mud slides that have cost so many lives and destroyed so much. Even though it is Ramadhan, I cannot sit still; […]
Floods in Pakistan and Leh, India – A Catasrophe: In Pakistan, CAI is working with Husseini Foundation of Pakistan help with this terrible calamity and have advanced USD23,000 for purchase of food and other emergency supplies. I am currently in Leh, Indian Kasmir and will report on aid efforts shortly. Please lend a hand if […]
Sirsi UP, India, site of CAI sponsored school and orphanage: Just as I decide to leave the relative comfort of the orphanage, it begins to pour. The school bus has no air-condition, so the windows must stay down or I risk being suffocated in the heat and humidity that is all powering this midday early […]
Salaam Alaikum, CAI 16th Annual Ramadhan Iftaar Appeal: “Indeed those who recite the Book of Allah and maintain the prayer and spend out of what We have provided them, secretly and openly, expecting a commerce that will never go bankrupt”. Sadly, we have almost lost hope reaching our goal, seriously thinking of reducing the amount […]
