Re: Avalanche buries 135 Pak soldiers in Siachin
I cant find any updates on online newspapers as well :(
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Any update ?
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i am afraid this operation will last for months.
media has resorted back to the ispr briefings only. there is no update anywhere, all they say is rescue work is going on.
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hoping and waiting ....
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**Chief of Army Staff, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited Gyari sector on Thursday, to oversee the progress of rescue efforts. **
The COAS was briefed about the progress of ongoing work including the efforts to create a water course to safely drain the lake formed by blocking of Gyari river by the avalanche.
The satellite data link also became operational today, which will allow real time video monitoring of relief work from the General Head Quarters in Rawalpindi.
Kayani remained with the troops for some time and lauded their motivation in face of tough conditions and the extreme weather. He appreciated their resolve to upkeep Army’s proud tradition of ‘leaving no man behind’, until humanly possible, regardless of cost.
The COAS was also accompanied by Commander Rawalpindi Corps and a media team, invited to witness firsthand, the ongoing activities at disaster site.
via Siachen tragedy: Live video streaming gets online from Gyari – The Express Tribune
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Rangoli - here is today’s News Night with Talat Hussain from Giyaari, Siachen.
He talks with Kiyaani and others.
They are searching for bodies so they can be returned to their relatives.
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just seeing their loved ones faces for that one last time ... might just bring peace to them!
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If they are able to recover the dead bodies it will give a strong message to their family members as well as other army men.
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This is extremely sad :( May Allah bring peace to the families of the shaheeds.
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An entire month has gone by and we are still in the middle of nowhere. International assistance also came a cropper and we have no one to turn to but Allah for his help and mercy.
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who knew it would take more than a month to get to our jawans, I was so hopeful until the 15th day, that our jawans will be ghazi, but hope just started to fade after 15 days....
I hope and pray that people who are sitting in high ups learn from this tragedy and resolve this issue asap, for almost 28 years our troops have been serving in those extreme weather conditions and we have paid a heavy price for this, its about time we bring them back.
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May Allah Grant All The Shaheeds The Highest Place In Jannah
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may ALLAH grant patience to their loved ones :(
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**ISLAMABAD: Pakistan said Friday that it would host the next round of talks with India over the disputed Siachen Glacier, dubbed the world’s highest battlefield, on June 11-12 in Islamabad.**Troops from India and Pakistan have faced off on the glacier in the mountains of disputed Kashmir since the 1980s but calls for the stand-off to end have been growing after an avalanche on April 7 which buried 140 people at a Pakistani army camp.
“Siachen is part of the dialogue process between India and Pakistan and defence secretary level talks on Siachen will be held on June 11 and 12 in Islamabad,” foreign ministry spokesman Moazzam Ahmad Khan told AFP.
“We want to resolve all issues through meaningful and result-oriented dialogue, and Siachen is an issue which is a source of concern for both the countries,” Khan added.
Pakistan’s army chief of staff, General Ashfaq Kayani, last month called for a negotiated end to the confrontation and said the glacier should be demilitarised.
Previous rounds of negotiations between Delhi and Islamabad on Siachen have ended in stalemate. Pakistan has said a redeployment of forces is one of “several proposals” made during the dialogue process.
India’s Defence Minister A.K. Antony told parliament this week that Pakistan would have to reveal its troop positions before any disengagement could be undertaken and he cautioned against high expectations.
“Don’t expect dramatic results (from the next round of talks). It is a complicated issue,” he said.
Sections of the Indian media have also raised doubts about the talks and any suggestion that India should relinquish a strategically important territory where hundreds of troops have lost their lives.
“Could PM gift away to Pakistan what Army has won?” read a headline for a front-page article in this week’s India Today current affairs magazine which detailed the opposition from within the Indian army.
An editorial said an agreement on Siachen would be an achievement for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who yearns for a peace deal with Pakistan, but “for the country it may however amount to surrender for very little gain”.
Relations between India and Pakistan, which have fought three wars since the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947, have been plagued by border and resource disputes, and accusations of Pakistani militant activity against India.
This week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna pressed Pakistan to do more to combat militant terror networks, saying its territory should not be used as a launch pad for terrorist attacks anywhere.
Washington believes rapprochement between arch-rivals India and Pakistan can help ease regional tensions over Afghanistan as US combat troops prepare to leave in 2014.
India-Pakistan Siachen talks in June: Foreign Ministry – The Express Tribune
I hope these talks reach a postive outcome!
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no new updates?
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**The search and rescue operation for the 140 soldiers and contractors buried at Gayari met relative success on its 50[SUP]th[/SUP] day as the body of one soldier was recovered from the Siachen, Express News reported.
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Express News correspondent Mohammad Afzal reported early Sunday morning that rescue officials working round the clock to recover the 140 soldiers and contractors buried by an avalanche on April 7, had first discovered a check post for the residential barracks of soldiers.
More discoveries are now expected over the next few days.
The last official dispatch from Inter-Service Public Relation on May 22, said that clearance efforts were underway round the clock.
Simultaneous efforts are being undertaken to tackle effects of water on the site in the shape of ponds, cutting and crevasses. The water has started draining and has resulted in quick reduction of water levels in the lake up to 27 feet.
Excavation work has resumed its full pace despite difficulties posed by seepage of the water at the sites, hazards of crevasses, cutting by water and sinking effects for digging equipment.
Meanwhile during physical inspection of the area, some equipment had been found.
ISPR had reported that Ground Penetrating Rader (GPR) teams took readings at 26 different points and identified eight sites for further search.
“A 300-feet long course has been hauled over the avalanche for restoration of the channel by employing dozers,” the release quoted an official.
More than 450 rescuers, including foreign teams, have been working in sub-zero temperatures at the site since the incident, though experts have said there is little chance of finding any survivors.
Siachen tragedy: Body of one missing soldier recovered from Gayari – The Express Tribune
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Siachen tragedy: Army declares buried troops dead after 52 days](http://tribune.com.pk/story/385741/pakistan-declares-buried-troops-dead-after-52-days/)
**why call them dead? they are Shaheed!!
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Tuesday declared dead 140 people buried alive by a huge avalanche in Gayari more than seven weeks ago.**
A huge wall of snow crashed into Siachen Glacier base high in the mountains in disputed Kashmir in the early hours of April 7, smothering an area of one square kilometre (a third of a square mile).
Only three bodies have so far been recovered from the remote glacier, dubbed the world’s highest battleground, despite desperate rescue efforts assisted by foreign teams, including from the United States.
The military said that given the improbability of recovering anyone alive, and after consulting religious leaders, “it has been decided to declare the remaining brave soldiers as ‘shuhada‘ (martyrs)” to try to reduce the families’ suffering.
“Th**is is being done with mixed feelings of pride, grief and above all unflinching resolve to continue all out efforts to recover the bodies of all shuhada,” **the military said in a statement posted on its website.
Rescuers have dug tunnels into the mass of snow and ice that hit the battalion headquarters of the 6th Northern Light Infantry to try to recover the bodies of 129 soldiers and 11 civilians at the Gayari camp.
The site is 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) up in the mountains, just below the glacier where Pakistani and Indian troops have faced off since the 1980s.
Kashmir has been the cause of two wars between India and Pakistan and the nuclear-armed rivals fought over Siachen in 1987, though guns on the glacier have largely fallen silent since a peace process began in 2004.
Siachen tragedy: Army declares buried troops dead after 52 days – The Express Tribune
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I heard them referred to as shaheeds.