The powerful tremor has killed more than 1,000 people, and the death toll is likely to rise manifold. People need aid urgently, but with the Taliban in power, international help for quake victims is a complicated affair.
Scores of people dug graves to bury the earthquake dead in the Paktika province of Afghanistan amid massive aid from across the world, as the death toll from the tremors that jolted Afghanistan on Wednesday hit 1,000, with the number expected to rise.