"In 2008 the government bulldozed most of Kashgar's old city, destroying 80 percent of the mud-brick houses to build "earthquake-resistant housing"."
"They led me through somnolent, burlap-covered streets and along crumbling mud-brick facades, past half-starved cows and goats hugging the shade of collapsed walls, to a small, round, stuccoed former palace with overhanging wooden balconies."
"DALBANDIN, Pakistan AP A powerful earthquake in Pakistan that also rocked buildings in India, Afghanistan and the United Arab Emirates damaged at least 200 mud-brick homes close to the epicenter, but caused no casualties, officials said Wednesday."