Wings of a Bird

Leaving Home Means Living, Quake Survivors Are Told - N.Y. Times [free but registration required]
... There was no question in Shah Jahan's mind that he would have to go. He and his nephew, Hazrat Ghulam Shah, both security guards in Karachi, had rushed back home after the earthquake struck. What they saw that first day told them they could not stay. Never had his family deserted their ancestral land like this. But with the aftershocks going on and on, he said, they could not rebuild their homes before the snow comes. Even the corn would be left to their tenants to cut and store. "The earthquake isn't going away," he said, referring to the aftershocks.
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Up in Gantar, opinions were mixed and vexed on the subject of moving. Some said they simply would not make it through the winter without a roof over their heads, and there were still not enough tents to go around. Others were anxious about what would become of their cattle and cornfields. Still others worried about how life in a densely packed camp for displaced people would violate the taboos of their closed and deeply conservative Pashtun culture.
Inayat ul-Huq, for one, feared that the women of his family would be exposed to strangers in camp. "Other people will hear their voices," is how he put it.
And so, he resolved to keep his wife, his year-old daughter and the rest of his extended family here for the winter. ...