UN appoints elder Bush as special envoy for Pakistan quake relief

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MUZAFFARABAD — The UN secretary-general has appointed former US president George H.W. Bush as his special envoy for rehabilitation and reconstruction in quake-hit areas of northwestern Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, the Foreign Ministry said yesterday.


Ministry spokeswoman Tasnim Aslam said Kofi Annan called Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday night to inform him of the appointment.

“It is a good selection and we welcome it,” she said, and expressed hope that it will help relieve many problems faced by the October 8 quake survivors.

Pakistan’s military, with the help of international aid agencies and foreign countries, has been running one of the world’s biggest relief operations in northern parts of the country since the October 8 quake struck, killing 87,000 people and destroying the homes of 3.5 million others.

feh

Old man bush is a pale second choice. Maybe third, Jimmy Carter was busy too?