Flow through the spillway at Attabad has continued to develop during the day. However, as I suggested in my post this morning, some of the higher discharge values being quoted are without foundation. At 6 pm the discharge was about 360 cubic feet per second (10.2 cubic metres per second). Thus, the discharge graph looks [...]
Reportedly the lake level continues to rise. The estimates from satellite imagery suggest that the volume may have now exceeded 500 million cubic meters into Attabad Lake as weather is getting warmer and glaciers are melting fast. But the expected decrease of free-board is not being achieved to facilitate the over-topping (over flow) of water [...]
Several people have asked for an update on the situation at Hunza Attabad, and a forecast of what will happen, so here it goes.
First, the situation as I understand it is as follows. In the last few days the availability of data on the situation on the ground has become difficult for reasons that are [...]
Like everything else, our government is waiting something bad to happen to perhaps gain some more funding from the West and then divert the attention of the people of the country from other issues, as thousands upon thousands of Pakistanis of Hunza and adjoining areas have left their homes and are suffering in open air [...]
The worst happened on January 4 when the already cracked mountain located above a beautiful, tiny, hamlet called Attabad slid off and buried most of the village, along with the people who had chosen to live in it, its cattle, houses, fields and orchards. The land mass that slid off has completely blocked the Hunza [...]
The declaration of “Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self-Governance Order 2009” has not only fulfilled the longstanding demand of the people of Northern Areas for self-rule on the lines of AJK type of governance, it will also frustrate the nefarious designs of Indian external strike in Northern Areas. It is beyond doubt that the Northern Areas of [...]
