In Pakistan, aid has started to reach some of the most damaged areas affected by Saturday’s earthquake. Heavy rain and hail had seriously impeded the relief effort. Aid convoys to remote areas of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir were mobbed by desperate villagers without food and water for days. “In our family more than 30 people died in my own family,” said one survivor. “Now we have tents here because the water is here and the river but we also need water. We need tents and everything but now we pray to Allah.” A spokesman for the Pakistani Army told reporters Tuesday rescuers have not yet reached “hundreds of villages.” The government is putting the official death toll between 35,000 to 40,000 people. Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, is without electricity or running water. Many of its 125,000 residents have been left homeless with winter just six weeks away. The area’s Prime Minister said he is now “the ruler of a graveyard.” UN officials say aid has only reached a small proportion of the 4 million people whose homes have been destroyed or damaged. A member of the UN’s disaster assessment team told the Financial Times “This is a huge catastrophe and the more we see the worse it’s getting.” Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz thanked India for providing aid: “”Pakistan has no problem accepting assistance from India subject to our needs and we have also, when there was an earthquake in Ahmadebad, Pakistan sent a lot of relief aid to India and India was kind enough to accept it. I think in this difficult moment we have to share with each other.”