Pakistan: Looking for Compensation
6 minutes, 2006
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We have discovered that compensation cheques issued by the Pakistani government after the earthquake that hit the country last year have bounced. More than 73,000 people were killed by the devastating earthquake and another three million were left homeless. But even now the suffering continues. After losing everything, many of the victims of the quake are being denied the compensation they were promised by the Pakistani government. We visited one of the last refugee camps in Islamabad dealing with the aftermath of the earthquake and found families who'd been ordered to return to their villages against their will. We travelled north to Balakot, close to the epicentre of last year's quake. Along the way, we met many people who said their government compensation cheques had bounced.