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Posts Tagged ‘Disaster’

A Gift of Disaster???

By Rai Azlan • Jun 17th, 2010 • Category: Features

It was the first week of January, when a huge lake came into being in result of land sliding in Hunza Valley near village, Ata Abad. This land sliding stopped the downward flow of Hunza River, and it created a lake of almost 12 miles long. At this time, all the experts and Pakistani media [...]



October 8 : Not to forget

By ALE-Xpressed • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Politics

Today marks the third anniversary of disastrous earthquake that hit northern Pakistan, especially Kashmir and parts of India and Afghanistan. More than a hundred thousand people lost their lives. Since then, even with millions and millions of rupees coming into the country for reconstruction and development in those parts of Kashmir affected by the tragedy, [...]



I can’t find My Keys?

By Charles Towne • Jul 3rd, 2008 • Category: Misc

One evening at the beginning of it all the phone rang.
I could tell by her voice that she was distraught and that she had been weeping.
She had left her workplace and instead of turning right she had turned left onto the highway and drove, and drove, and drove.
In that twenty plus mile section [...]