Afghanistan lacks the medical supplies to treat those injured in an earthquake that killed 1,000 people this week, a senior official says, as an aftershock kills at least five more people
The disaster is a major test for the hard line Islamist rulers who have been largely isolated, shunned by many because of worries about human rights and cut off from much direct international assistance because of sanctions.
India, which has strained ties with the Taliban, said it had sent 27 tonnes of supplies on two flights to be handed to international aid agencies. "Four decades of conflict and instability in Afghanistan have left millions of people on the brink of hunger and starvation," its spokesperson, Shabia Mantoo, said on Friday.Another UN body, the World Health Organisation, has also warned that the diaster could worsen outbreaks of cholera already rampant across Afghanistan.
Speaking before Friday's aftershock, disaster official Mr Haqqani said the search for survivors had been called off, some 48 hours after the earthquake.Elsewhere, people have been pulled alive from the rubble of earthquakes after considerably longer periods.
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