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ADVISORY-Witness story from Pakistan's Balakot
08 Oct 2006 10:59:22 GMT
Source: Reuters

Waheed Khan is a reporter for Reuters in Karachi. In the story slugged BC-WITNESS-QUAKE, he writes about his experience as one of the first journalists to reach the stricken city of Balakot the morning after it was devastated by a massive earthquake on Oct. 8, 2005, and his return there a year later on assignment to cover the first anniversary of Pakistan's worst natural disaster.
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