In pictures: Earthquake Hits Pakistan-India Border

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AP - Sat Oct 22, 9:38 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivor Abdurrashid Mugal from remote Rashian village, 90 kms 55 miles west of Muzaffarabad, unseen, holds his two-year-old daughter Asma, broke her arm in the Oct 8 earthquake, as they wait for her to recieve treatment in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2005. Helicopters continued to bring injured Kashmiris down from mountainous areas as the U.N. appealed for more aid for victims of South Asia's massive earthquake, warning of another wave of deaths if survivors don't get shelter and food before the Himalayan winter comes. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

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Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:40 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors, who lost their homes after the massive earthquake, eat food in a refugees camp in Rawalpindi October 22, 2005. The engineering battalion promised by NATO to help reach untold numbers of quake survivors in the rugged hills of northern Pakistan cannot arrive soon enough, an international aid official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed

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AFP - Sat Oct 22, 9:43 AM ET
A Pakistani soldier and relatives carry an injured woman after she was evacuated from Batgram. Two weeks after the gigantic South Asian earthquake, the United Nations warned that all the money in the world could not buy time for survivors and called for still more tents and helicopters.(AFP/Tariq Mahmood)

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AFP - Sat Oct 22, 9:43 AM ET
Earthquake survivors clear rubble from a collapsed house in Muzaffarabad. Two weeks after the gigantic South Asian earthquake, the United Nations warned that all the money in the world could not buy time for survivors and called for still more tents and helicopters.(AFP/Arif Ali)

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Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:46 AM ET
Young Kashmiri earthquake survivors who lost their homes after a massive earthquake eat near their makeshift tent in Islamabad October 22, 2005. The engineering battalion promised by NATO to help reach untold numbers of quake survivors in the rugged hills of northern Pakistan cannot arrive soon enough, an international aid official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

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Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:48 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors who lost their homes after a massive earthquake get food near their makeshift tents at a refugee camp in Islamabad October 22, 2005. The engineering battalion promised by NATO to help reach untold numbers of quake survivors in the rugged hills of northern Pakistan cannot arrive soon enough, an international aid official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

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Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:48 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors carry bags of food back to their mountain village in Shaheed Gali, about 15km north of earthquake-devastated Muzaffarabad October 22, 2005. The international response to the Pakistani earthquake has been inadequate and the speed and scale of relief for millions of survivors has to be intensified as winter approaches, the United Nations said on Saturday. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama

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Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:50 AM ET
Kashmiri earthquake survivors who lost their homes after a massive earthquake play near their makeshift tents at a refugee camp in Islamabad October 22, 2005. The engineering battalion promised by NATO to help reach untold numbers of quake survivors in the rugged hills of northern Pakistan cannot arrive soon enough, an international aid official said on Saturday. REUTERS/Faisal Mahmood

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Reuters - Sat Oct 22, 9:51 AM ET
Kashmiri survivors sit inside their makeshift plastic sheet shelter in mountain village Arriala, about 20 km (12 miles) north of earthquake-devastated Muzaffarabad, capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, October 22, 2005. The international response to the Pakistani earthquake has been inadequate and the speed and scale of relief for millions of survivors has to be intensified as winter approaches, the United Nations said on Saturday. REUTERS/Kimimasa Mayama

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Struggle for normality

A makeshift cable car is strung across the Jhelum River in Pakistan-administered Kashmir in the wake of the 8 October earthquake that killed more than 54,000 people.

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The UN says tens of thousands are still without adequate food and shelter and that the world's richest nations have failed to support its appeal for funds.

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Survivor Khawaj Nadeem Ahmed, 32, takes a rest amid the devastation in the capital of Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Muzaffarabad. More than three million are homeless like Khawaj.

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Turkish doctors treat a Kashmiri refugee girl brought to the Red Crescent field hospital in Muzaffarabad.

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A 12-strong flotilla of boats heads out to villages in northern Pakistan's Kaladaka valley, carrying blankets, tents, tarpaulin and wheat.

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One of three Indian relief camps set up along the Line of Control in divided Kashmir. Victims from the Pakistani side cannot attend until the two sides work out details for crossing the line.

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Some try to struggle back to normality but fears remain for those in remote areas as the Himalayan winter beckons.

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Reuters - Fri Oct 28, 4:31 AM ET
Soldiers help carry and distribute shelters, food and medical aid to the people of Islamabad, Pakistan October 27, 2005. Half a billion dollars of new aid was pledged to rebuild earthquake-hit Pakistan on Wednesday after a U.N. fund-raising drive, but emergency cash to help survivors through winter snows fell far short of U.N. goals. REUTERS/Cpl Chris Hargreaves/RLC/Crown Copyright

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Reuters - Fri Oct 28, 4:41 AM ET
Soldiers load aid, to be distributed for quake survivors, into a British helicopter in Islamabad, Pakistan October 27, 2005. Half a billion dollars of new aid was pledged to rebuild earthquake-hit Pakistan on Wednesday after a U.N. fund-raising drive, but emergency cash to help survivors through winter snows fell far short of U.N. goals. REUTERS/Cpl Chris Hargreaves/RLC/Crown Copyright

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AP - Fri Oct 28, 4:59 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor girl with a broken arm and aboy, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, chat as they cook bread for breakfast in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

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AP - Fri Oct 28, 4:59 AM ET
A Kashmiri earthquake survivor young girl, living in miserable conditions after being made homeless by Oct. 8 earthquake, at the entrance of her tent in the devastated city of Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, early Friday, Oct. 28, 2005. International relief officials warned that only weeks remained to reach hundreds of thousands of people before the winter snow cuts them off in remote Himalayan villages. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

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