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Posts published in “Day: January 22, 2010

Rise in lake level endangers Gojalis: By Zulfiqar Ali Khan in The Dawn, Jan 22

HUNZA, Jan 21: The rapid rise in the level of the artificial lake, formed on the Hunza River, due to the devastating landslide of Jan 4 at Atabad has endangered thousands of people in the area. Lt-Gen Najeeb of Army Engineering Corps and Maj-Gen Shahid Niaz of the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO) visited the sites and assured to breach the block to release the water in 45 days. The local people, however, are showing their…