Hunza News (Pakistan)

GILGIT: Snow leopards are cryptic in nature and tend to reside in one of the harshest and inaccessible milieus of our planet that encountering with snow leopard in the wild is like a dream.

Two female skiers grabbed Pakistan’s first gold and silver in the first South Asian Games, leaving their male teammates ruing their dismal performance as they only claimed a bronze medal.

The approach followed in managing the Attabad landslide disaster was “wait and see” – basically wait for the lake to outburst, but it did not.

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao started an official visit to Pakistan Friday noon, in a bid to further push forward bilateral pragmatic cooperation and lift economic and trade cooperation to a new high.

Destruction of the Highway has completely severed land connections between China and Pakistan since January 4, 2010.

KKH Repair Project to take 6 years China and Pakistan have agreed to work on lowering of water level in the dammed Hunza River. According to the Associated Press of Pakistan,

AHORE: Water in the landslide lake in Hunza has reached a dangerous level and its bank can burst within the next couple of months, with the possibility of inundating several villages and threatening the Tarbela Dam

The water from Hunza lake formed by a landslide has started causing destruction and submerging nearby villages. The lake is 18kms long and owing to the fear of bursting of it.

GILGIT: Authorities in Gilgit have claimed that no water reservoirs – including Tarbela dam – will be affected even if the Attabad artificial lake bursts its banks.

HUNZA: Rise in water level in Attabad lake has inundated a large portion of Shahra-e-Karakorum which also led to submerging of the link road between Gulmit and Saust, cutting off the two areas.

GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Minister Mehdi Shah has blamed the PML-Q for the Attabad tragedy, saying that the party should be questioned for ignoring the issue when it first surfaced during its government.

GILGIT: Fears are growing a lake created by a landslide will burst and cause a massive flood that could affect more than 50,000 people in northern Pakistan and disrupt a key trade link with China, residents said on Wednesday.

The Gilgit-Baltistan Public Works Department has suffered a loss of Rs637 million due to mismanagement, contract mismanagement, losses, overpayment and non-recovery during the financial year 2008/09, an audit report revealed on Saturday.

The rise in temperature coupled with glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) from the Ghulkin-Hussaini glacier have increased the water inflow in the lake formed on Hunza River due to the devastating landslide of Jan 4 at Atabad Hunza.

The announcements of the former governor Gilgit-Baltistan would be materialized soon with issuance of the official notification declaring the landslide affected areas of Hunza.

Authorities in northern Pakistan are struggling to prevent the bursting of a natural dam formed by a landslide that could affect more than 50,000 people and sever an important trade link with China.

We made a big mistake by giving cheques to families of the deceased people of Attabad on time.

his report provides a summary of the key findings of a visit to Pakistan, including a short field visit to the landslide dam at Attabad in Hunza.

Scout embraces Shahadat, FWO worker injured due to fresh landslide at Attabad student of 12th grade..

Baltit Fort (Karimabad, Hunza, Pakistan) Awarded Top Prize at the UNESCO 2004 Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards.

Death toll from an avalanche and consequent landslide in northern Pakistan has reached 102 and 45 people are still buried in snow, a mayor in the affected area has said. Last week,

Pakistani skier Mohammad Abbas, a native of Naltar valley in Gilgit – Baltistan, became the first man in the country’s history to qualify for the the Winter Olympics,

The locals have complained of irregularities in distribution of relief goods among the landslide affected people of Hunza and Gojal.

Baltit Fort 700 years is an ancient fort in the Hunza valley in the Northern Areas of Pakistan. In former times survival of the feudal regimes of Hunza .

The water level in a dam formed on Hunza River has crossed the first barrier pushing water flow towards the main barrier downstream.

KADO initiated website for assistant commissioner hunza to improve social services for the community of the area.