Hunza may have left the front page news in recent days losing out to Cyclone Phet and the budget. The human cost of Hunza can be felt in the words of Atif, who left a heartrending comment on how the Hunza landslide dam has destroyed his life. This post is dedicated to Atif and the countless [...]
The above set of photos sicken me and let me tell you why? The first photo shows the present non-practising pir and evidently the non-practising Prime Minister of Pakistan showing affection to a baby girl who now resides in a IDP camp owing to the government’s lacklustre response to the Hunza landslide. The Prime Minister [...]
Credits: Abdul Hameed via Pamir Times A picture is said to say a thousand words. Indeed the photo above of Janu does exactly that and tells the story of Hunza without the use of words. Janu’s story of prayer is told by Pamir Times and is shared below verbatim: Jan – e – Alam, also known to [...]
Hunza is in need of urgent help owing to the dam lake that threatens Hunza and Pakistan more widely as forewarned in my earlier post of March and shared again here. The sudden interest in the Hunza dam lake from the esteemed offices of the Prime Minister, President and the Army Chief are acts too little and too late to save the day, I [...]
The people of Hunza in Gilgit-Baltistan have had many, indeed too many a sleepless night since January after suffering a massive landslide in Attabad. The impact of the landslide has been considerable and has led to the forming of a natural dam in the Hunza River forming a lake that is consuming villages as it moves upstream. Catastrophic effects are feared if [...]