Earthquake - PIA Carrying goods for free to the victims, TENTS and MEDICINES are urgently needed

2.5 million (possibly many more) people are left with no shelter, which
means at least half a million tents are required.

The best thing would be to purchase camping equipment and medicines and send
them to Pakistan, preferably Islamabad (because Islamabad is the closest big
city, 95 km from Muzaffarabad, the epicenter) or Lahore (another 300km from
Islamabad) because even with all the monetary aid, tents are not available here
at all.

Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) will carry all relief goods for free
from all of its stations in its global network
(http://www.piac.com.pk/press_release/pr293.asp )

Find your nearest PIA station, list of PIA's worldwide Stations by Countries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pakistan_International_Airlines#Services

Here is the list of PIA's booking offices around the world alphabetized
by cities:
http://www.piac.com.pk/b_offices/A.asp
(See N for New York, C for Chicago, F for Frankfurt, D for Dusseldorf etc)

Links for online Donations:
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1708958&enterthread=y

Please take action as quickly as possible, spread the word and get more
people to volunteer any kind of help possible, because the winter is here and
the survivors are looking forward to our help. Even a little help from everyone
of us can make a world of difference.

Those that are active bloggers, please post this in your blog and forward it
to other bloggers. Blogging is an effective way to reach masses.

Also, ask the webmasters/moderators/owners of different website portals to add
a prominent banner requesting online donation and link it to any organization
like Red Cross, Red Crescent

Some portals that get high traffic: http://aol.com, http://lycos.com,
http://excite.com, http://hotbot.com
Others:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&hs=02c&lr=&client=opera&rls=en&q=related:www.yahoo.com

Organizations accepting online Donations are listed in this thread
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=38&threadid=1708958&enterthread=y

Those that are webmasters, please add a banner to your sites. So please spread the word using the ideas suggested above, and let me know if you have any more ideas.

Feel free to contact me for any more information you need.
Thank you.
Waqas Usman
waqasusman AT gmail DOT com
(Mobile) 92-321-4060186