Pakistan snubs aid

[whirlygigspin]

Members of Taiwan Roots Medical Peace Corps on Wednesday abandoned plans to travel to Pakistan to provide medical relief to victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake as Pakistan would not issue visas to relief personnel from Taiwan, India or Israel.

According to Roots , they were told by the Pakistani authorities that if Taiwanese groups plan to enter Pakistan for relief work, they should first obtain permission from Beijing.

Roots criticized the Pakistani government for politicizing a purely humanitarian-aid issue, saying that linking humanitarian work to politics is the last thing that his group would like to see.



--WTF is wrong with these people???

[afdip]

1. we refused aid from cuba and venezuela . . . what's the difference??

[meppie-meppie not]

2. yep, it would appear that stupidity is contagious