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In the line of duty: A fallen son of the soil is remembered by his father HARIPUR: When Anwar Zaman’s son was selected in the Northern Light Infantry, he opposed his son’s decision to join the regiment. “I urged him to change the regiment but he was overtaken by the...

No PR93/2012-ISPR Rawalpindi - April 21, 2012: Update Avalanche Clearance at Gayari Sector Siachen The weather has once again turned very cold due to overcast conditions and chilling winds. The bad weather posing difficulties in rescue activities but could not affect the pace of work at...

Bhoja crash: Investigations may not take too long, says DG CAA ISLAMABAD: Investigations into the Bhoja air crash might not take too long to complete, Director-General (DG) Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Nadeem Yousafzai expressed hope while speaking to the media on Saturday. “The...

From calling a whole industry a *****, you have now downsized your ire to owners and anchors. But still, you are not specific. I could go on but this is not the purpose of the thread. So i will end my comment on the matter on this note; When you criticize a profession, you should know that good...

This is a very insensitive generalization of a whole industry to which i do not agree. Yes, there are problems which need to be rectified but you cannot label a whole set of professionals like this without having any basic idea of how media works. The field reporters and cameramen do make...

Plane is getting out of control, captain told tower ISLAMABAD: The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Saturday issued a preliminary investigation report on the Bhoja Air plane crash, DawnNews reported. According to the report, three minutes before the crash, the plane’s captain had...

Desolation of Gayari army base GAYARI CAMP: Half a dozen tattered yellow flags poke from a huge boulder-strewn expanse of gravel and ice. They mark where the buildings of Gayari army base once stood. In the early hours of April 7, thousands of tonnes of ice, rock and snow crashed down onto...

Here is the link to the original paper on the said proposal .. http://www.uvm.edu/~shali/kemkar_siachen.pdf

This is the latest update from ISPR: Despite weather hazards, rescue operation at Gayari Sector continues at five priority points identified with the help of SPD team employed alongwith plant equipment, Army Search and Rescue Teams. A 450 meters long access track has been developed on the...

Here are some excerpts from a five year old study, conducted by a Pakistani hydrologist, which shed some light on the environmental issues: 1. Mr Abbasi compared satellite images of the glacier's snout between 1978 and 2006 as part of a study for the Worldwide Fund for Nature in Pakistan last...

Rescuers may take days to reach trapped men ISLAMABAD, April 9: It may take days before rescuers reach the 139 men trapped in a military complex buried under about 80 feet of snow, mud and rocks, in Gyari (Siachen), army officials said on Monday, as rescue teams dug two tunnels to reach...

I agree with you on that point my dear. If this is the situation when there is enough food, we can only imagine what will happen in the near future when demand outgrows supply !

I am not aware of any official scheme for children. However, there are NGOs which are working in this sector. The Govt. has this scheme, called BISP [Bemazir Income Support Program] for low-income house-holds, where monthly installments are paid. Also, they have another similar scheme for the...

The problem as pointed out in the article is not food scarcity, rather lack of access or inability to buy the right kind of food. Reasons are many; primarily displacement of large number of people due to floods and military operations in FATA. Then there is also rising inflation which means...

Firstly, they are rarely at full strength. Secondly, the whole Battalion HQ might not have been hit by the avalanche but a portion of it.

This figure is also given in an ISPR Press Release, :: ISPR :: Inter Services Public Relations - PAKISTAN .

According to ISPR, total number of people is 135 including 11 civilians. For complete list, see :: ISPR :: Inter Services Public Relations - PAKISTAN .

ISPR has also released some ref. pics from google earth to the media which help understand the loc and movement of the avalanche. I have the pics but somehow not been able to upload em.

Sir, Thank you for noticing. I am caught up in a major project these days. Hopefully i'll be around more often. Best, GUNNER.

Such a tragedy. Victims of a senseless dispute. May GOD help them. How many more have to die before the two govt's realize the futility of continuing with this conflict?