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 BALAKOT, Pakistan (AP) - A week after an earthquake ruined every home in the remote mountain village of Ghanool in northwest Pakistan, Malik Khan Zaman realized help was not coming.
He left the collapsed remains of his home — where he was spending freezing nights with his wife and mother — and set out down a narrow ribbon of dirt road for supplies. The quake had carved away sections of the steep, zigzagging path, forcing him to edge around sheer drops of more than 50 feet.
"We waited for help for many days, but no one came," he told an Associated Press reporter after arriving in the small town of Balakot, a hub for relief efforts. "All the houses collapsed in my village. Every family has lost three to five people," he said.
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