I do not care about Pakistanis who persecute religious minorities, especially Christians.

"Cowardice is the face that launched a thousand failures" (an American friend). The history of the Pakistani people indeed offers itself as a case-study into the cause and consequences of cowardice.

Unlike the Afghans next door who fought against every invader seeking to impose themselves upon them as their masters, had their nation destroyed as a consequence if only to stand free. The Pakistanis however - Punjabis, Sindhis and Mohajirs - have unfailingly succumbed to them in servitude. Even Islam came into the region through the sword weilding Arabs which I as a Muslim reflect upon as running contrary to the teachings of the Quran. They certainly took over the northern parts of Afghanistan, but it was in the Punjab and Sindh wherein their reigned supreme. The ancestors of today's Pakistanis caved in without much fight at all. In large parts of Afghanistan however, the Arabs were being killed at the hands of Afghans with no less ferocity as they managed with the Soviets, the British, the Mongols, and Alexander's army. While the ancestors of the Punjabis and Sindhis - much like recent years - allowed their lands as bases for ongoing Arab incursions into Afghanistan, however, it was an Afghan from the Arab-occupied parts of Afghanistan in the name of Abu Muslim Khorasani who later led an army that overthrew the Umayaad Caliphate and replaced it with the far more superior Abbasids that Muslims today reflect upon as the "Golden Age of Islam".

As Islam later grew in Afghanistan at the hands of Afghans, an Afghan known as Sultan Mahmud Ghaznawi led an army of his own that grew into an empire after taking the sword to the Pakistanis and forcefuly converting them all from Shia Islam to Sunnis. To some, this was a religious decree, but for me, this was yet another traditional example of Afghans securing their independance by putting to the sword those cowards who offered themselves as vehicles to brutal invaders in the past.

Today, we have a "Pakistan" that if not for their former British Colonial masters, would not have even existed. Ostensibly a soveriegn state, these Pakistanis exploited cold-war realities to once again destroy and dominate Afghanistan through their IslamoFascist proxies. As a state, we all know that the real rulers of Pakistan are the military, while the elected officials are no more than a side-show. Like before, the cowardly people of Pakistan listen to their latest masters and do as they say without the courage to oppose them and stand for their god-given rights as equals.

I look at the poor people on the pics above and can't help but remind myself that these people - either actively or passively - have made their own beds, so now they sleep on it. The same off course can be said about the sheer misery that my own Afghans find themselves in. However, we do not describe ourselves as "victims", for we too are reaping what we've sown. However, we've stood against the might of the Soviet invaders just as we stand in opposition to the Pakistani invaders today, albeit via proxy. While Pakistan's misery is permanent, ours is a blip in our proud history. We will again rise to take this war to its end within Pakistan and Balkanize it accordingly.

Pakistan shouldn't receive any aid or sympathy. They don't deserve any.

Truly shocked by the lack of humanity by those people making comments about Pakistanis not deserving aid or help in a situation of a natural disaster..

Regardless of what its government's policies are; all I see is the same lot of Pakistan bashers who hijack every Pakistan related piece on FP, showcasing their racist ideals vis-a-vis a group of people.

What is a fault of a 8yr old child who wakes up to find her village washed away by a flood? The need to offer food and shelter is a basic tenet of humanity, and is NOT conditional up on ideologies.

What is North Korea today? But South Korea and other countries still send in food, medicine, etc as aid for its people. Should the world stop feeding the famine effected Somalia just because the country is a hot-bed for al-Shabab group?

The apathetic comments here truly show the ugly side of human conscience that can be so evil and detestable of others so as to make one question humanity.

I think a lot of the anger towards Pakistani people is being misdirected. The of majority Pakistani people want to be sovereign but are tied down by two opposing sides: terrorism within the country and the imposing US presence amidst a corrupted Pakistan government.

These amazing photographs capture the struggles facing the underrepresented people of Pakistan. Just like when tragedy struck Haiti, I hope those effected will recover and gain food, water, and shelter, and have a chance to redeem what they have lost.

I don't this is a topic to be argued over, I just wanted to share my thoughts.

This cancer on Earth which spawns terrorism from Philippines to Xinjiang and blackmails the whole world by holding gun to its own head deserves to be wiped off the map.Come to think of it,what is the contribution of this corrupt failed state to the world except destabilizing&exporting violence to its neighbors.Its not just the military-jihadi complex..whole pakistani society is culpable for breeding terrorists.
Only "white dumb Americans/Euro" bleeding heart lefties will fall for this con job.

Would someone please delete some of these comments on here? I know this is probably a vain hope since this site apparently puts no effort into keeping the comment sections in line (spam anyone?), but on the off chance a moderator does see this, would you, for the love of god/allah/vishnu/buddha/the flying spaghetti monster, delete some of these offensive comments?

This is an article about people suffering from a natural disaster for god sakes. That certain posters are using these images to spread their hateful views, it's just... inhuman. I personally was so enraged that I wrote out 3 profanity-filled responses to these disgusting posts, but I deleted them because I realized they wouldn't lead anywhere productive. I don't know if others will be able to restrain themselves from being drawn into a flame war.

Honestly, I'm not in favor of censorship in general, but things like "let them eat yellow cake," or calling the people in these pictures "cowards," that is far out of bounds for any civilized discourse on how to deal with humanitarian disasters. It is simply hate-mongering. Amazingly insensitively-timed hate-mongering.

Pakistan's sufferings are a direct correlation of their pathetic effort to be something that they are not. Pakistanis, Afghans and the rest of South Asia always had more in common among themselves than desert Arabs who thrust Islam upon them, and which is today leading them to distort their own cultural nay civilization and geographical reality.

This is apparent from idiotic posts by commentators like Barekzai above, who think as Afghans they are somewhat better off than the Pakistanis. If today (or even 40 years back) an earthquake struck Afghanistan (god forbid), the situation of the poor in the Afghan street would be similar and they would also ask for aid from others or see their family perish from disease, starvation or conflict. There is no honour in poverty or in intolerance.
For the likes of him - even Pashtuns became Islamic after the Arabs slashed through fathers and brothers to rape your mothers and daughters. Who are you trying to call spineless and people of little belief in their own culture and history ? Look at the Indians, in spite of a 1000+ year of rule by Arabs and Islamized Turks, Afghans, Mongols, and Persians they have held on to their culture, faith and belief in tolerance. True, they have their problems, but in general violence is more of an anathema to the Hindu Indian than to his non-Hindu brethren (especially Muslim ones).
Afghans should remember how they could remove the Soviets only with the help of US/Pak arms, otherwise the godless Communists would have had the last laugh.

As for Pakistan, the sooner her people realize that they have been taken for a ride this past 65 years by their Islam-in-danger crowing military-political leadership, and that there have been little or no necessary development in spite of being a great country with lots of resources the better it will be. Islam is not going to solve any problems, get rid of it, and get some plain common sense. That way you can focus on the needful job at hand instead of declaring Jihad on someone because his concept of the Almighty differs from your own. The Almighty will have the last laugh at your foolishness anyway. This applies to the people of Afghanistan also.

A few lines to reflect upon (in my native Bengali) referring to the Chariot Festival of Lord Jagannatha (a form of transcendental & non-anthropotheistic for of the Almighty worshipped as a deity in Eastern India), in Puri:

Ratha Yatra Lokaronno, Moha Dhum Dham
Poth Vabe ami Deb, Rath Vabe Ami Deb
Murti Vabe Ami Dev, Hasen Antarjami.

(The Chariot Festival is on, followers and festivities galore /
I am God, thinks the Road, the Chariot thinks the same /
The Idol also thinks "I am God", the Almighty merely smiles)

No matter what the government/people of Pakistan have done, they are still human.

How could you possibly look into the eyes of the children of Pakistan and say that they deserved the devastation that faces their country?

The key is foreign aid! With foreign aid, Pakistanis will be granted education and can change their ways.

The malaise of Islamic radicalism runs deep across Pakistan’s entire establishment - civilian and military as well as society.

Nobody forced Pakistani government to facilitate relocation of Osama bin Laden from Sudan to Afghanistan in 1996. Democratic government of Pakistan chose to do so of its own free will.

Nobody forced Pakistani Army and Intelligence to create what ex-CIA official Bruce Reidel called ‘this jihadist Frankenstein’ monster in 1990s. Pakistani Army and Intelligence chose to do so with the full financing provided by Pakistan’s democratic governments at the time.

Is ’poverty, lack of economic development or lack of education’ a valid excuse to promote, spawn, shelter and support umpteen terrorist outfits on Pakistani soil?

Is ’wanting strategic depth’ a valid excuse to terrorize neighbors like Pakistan terrorizes Afghanistan and India or even take over a neighbor like Pakistan took over Afghanistan in 1996 and wants to do so again once U. S. troops depart? Should India create terrorist outfits to terrorize Pakistan and take it over because India feels sandwiched between China and Pakistan?

Lawyers showered the suspected killer of a prominent Pakistani governor with rose petals when he arrived at court and an influential Muslim scholars group praised the assassination of the governor who was recommending to reform Pakistan‘s sharia laws.

The Pakistani parliament’s joint session convened on 5/13/2011 after Osama’s killing and ended after adopting a unanimous resolution condemning the American raid on the Abbottabad compound in which al Qaeda chief was killed.

Pakistani parliamentarians did not appear to be bothered about Osama living in Abbottabad for the past five years and in other parts of the country since 9/11.

Osama bin Laden was a hero in Pakistan even prior to his death and remains one now as well.

Previous US ambassador Anne Patterson to Pakistan, wrote in a secret review in 2009 that ‘Pakistan's Army and ISI are covertly SPONSORING four militant groups - Haqqani‘s HQN, Mullah Omar‘s QST, Al Qaeda and LeT - and will not abandon them for any amount of US money‘, as diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks show.

Ambassador Patterson had NO reason to mislead her own State Department and U. S. government.

How can Pakistani State or its nuclear weapons be threatened by Islamic fundamentalists when its Army, Intelligence Agency and Democratic governments SPONSOR such Islamic fundamentalist outfits like Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda, Mullah Omar’s QST, Haqqani’s HQN and Hafiz Saeed’s LeT and will NOT abandon them for any amount of US money as reported by ambassador Patterson?

afhans are always be a backward and barbaric form of life. it doesn't matter oif its taliban, haqqani, india, arabs, america, pakistan, someone will always play the afghans for puppets. the americans have proven they cannot beat taliban or pakistan and afraid to admit they have lost, so they are just trying to find a scape goat. first it was osama, then al qaeda, then taliban, now haqqani, even with their big bad military they lost to a bunch of rag heads. the euro-pee-ons have been irelevant for 2 decades now, but they had been riding the coat tails of the U.S for so long. they will drown and die in their own stupid economic mess. thought u were so smart hunh/ so sophisticated and powerful? how's ur economy looking? haha, all ur people losing their houses and jobs, guess what, pakistan didn't do that. u did. it was pakistan that actuall fought the soviets, if not for pakistan, america would still be frozen scared in the cold war and afhganistan would just be a whore house for the russians. we watched how americans let their own people die in katrina, u couldn't even do anything for them, just because they were black. this is how u treat ur own, what makes u think someone else should care for u. if ur cry baby soldiers are too scared then tell them to go back.

and yet you'll probably see in the comments below how my sympathy is frowned upon.

The people world wide and countries would do that they can and Pakistan will do what is damn easy.

There are few facts about aid given by nations during floods in 2010.

The most hated country for average Pakistanis, U. S. led the pack with a commitment of $ 200 million, followed by the U. K., Saudi Public Relief Fund, Saudi Arabia, the European Union, Germany, Canada and the United Nations.

India with $ 25 Million aid had topped even developed countries like Japan, Norway and Sweden.

China gave $ 9 million which Pakistanis has always regarded and gloated over as its “all-weather friend and now a trophy savior.

But there have been instances of very strange behavior pattern shown by The Pakistani Aid administrators as far as India aid was concerned.

They thought it was much batter to blacken out and tear off Indian signs from the Indian materials.

Why they thought it was fit to do so, relates to certain twisted ideals and stereotypes they love to reinforce and extend further

There have been instances of aid material being sold in road side shops and monies diverted/pocketed by the powerful people who matter in Pakistan.

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Can I just say that karma is all around? Do good to others, then you can very well expect a lot of good things to come towards you. Do evil, then, expect more evil to come your way. Let’s just say that the Pakistan people indeed made a lot of evil actions in the past and the present and who knows what they can do in the future. I think they need something like anti inflammatory agent. Will you really let bad karma hit you too (just like what they are experiencing), by not helping people who are in need, or perhaps sympathize with them at the very least?