Pakistani paper lauds Khalifa City as a UAE landmark humanitarian gesture

Islamabad - May 7, 2012 (WAM) - In a landmark humanitarian gesture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has built the most modern city at Garhi Habibullah near Mansehra that was totally raised in the wake of earthquake of October 2005, The News has reported. The newly built city of 210 houses - the Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan City - shelters families affected by natural disasters that destroyed their homes in Balakot town and surrounding villages. They are provided with decent comfortable houses which will enable them to return to normal life. The new buildings will have resistance against earthquakes of high magnitude, the Pakistani paper said. The city, the paper added, has two separate schools for boys and girls, a clinic and a mosque. Khalifa City is part of the aid provided by the government and people of the UAE and the cost is estimated at Dh12 million. The Red Crescent spent Dh70 million during the past years on humanitarian relief and rehabilitation phases, orphanages, development projects and drilling hundreds of water wells and vaccination campaigns in collaboration with UN agencies. – Emirates News Agency, WAM