The intensity of the quake was quite strong enough - but the shoddy materials may have caused even more deaths.

This was a common practice throughout Pakistan, but particularly in NWFP. We've been tolerating this kind of corruption in Pakistan for years.

This is criminal negligence by the state.

This figure is possible. (Saturday's quake) seems to be at least of the same intensity, and that is why we are trying to send as much medical material as we can.

shoddy.

That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of deaths ever recorded from an infectious disease in a single year, by far. More than the black plague, more than any other infectious disease,