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8 April 2012

GILGIT / ISLAMABAD:

Darkness and bad weather forced rescuers to postpone their search on Saturday after an avalanche smashed into a Pakistan Army camp, burying at least 124 soldiers and 11 civilians in “the world’s highest battleground”.

Over 150 soldiers, with sniffer dogs and aided by helicopters, had been deployed to search in the deep snow after the avalanche engulfed the camp in mountainous Giari sector of Baltistan region, near Siachen Glacier, in Kashmir.
“The dark and bad weather has forced us to stop rescue work. We will resume it early morning,” a security official told AFP late in the evening after a frantic rescue operation throughout the day.

Army spokesperson Maj Gen Athar Abbas said that despite hours of hectic search, no bodies or survivors had been found.

“It’s too early to say anything,” he replied when asked about the chances of finding anyone alive after more than 12 hours.

The trapped troops and civilians, paid out of the defence establishment, belonged to the 6 Northern Light Infantry Battalion, the headquarters of which has been situated in the same place for the last 20 years.

The avalanche struck early on Saturday morning, a military statement said, raising the possibility that the buried soldiers were asleep at the time.

“More than 100 soldiers of NLI (Northern Light Infantry), including a colonel, were trapped when the avalanche hit a military camp,” Maj-Gen Abbas said earlier in the day.

By the evening, the Inter-Services Public Relations, the media arm of the military, stated that 124 troops and 11 civilians were trapped in the avalanche, which occurred at an altitude of about 16,000 feet.

Independent sources, however, put the number of trapped soldiers at 130. “The number of the buried soldiers could be nearly 130,” official sources in Gilgit told The Express Tribune.

The snow left by the avalanche is up to 80 feet deep and stretched over one kilometre area, state television quoted Maj Gen Abbas as saying.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani expressed deep shock at the potentially heavy loss of life and regret over the ‘unfortunate snow slide’.

A statement from the prime minister stated that he is in constant contact with the concerned authorities regarding the rescue operation. “The incident in no way will undermine the high morale of soldiers and officers,” he said.

‘World’s highest battleground’
In 1984, India occupied the key areas on Siachen Glacier, including the heights, and Pakistan immediately responded by deploying its own forces. They fought a fierce battle in 1987, raising fears of all-out conflict.

The heavily militarised glacier is over 20,800 feet high, but despite its limited strategic importance both countries have spent heavily to keep a military presence there.

India reportedly forks out more than $800,000 daily on its Siachen deployment – a figure that does not include additional wages and bonuses.

Experts have previously said that India has around 5,000 troops on the glacier, while Pakistan has less than half that number. The harsh weather and the altitude claim many more lives than actual fighting. (ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM AGENCIES)

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Published in The Express Tribune, April 8th, 2012.

124 Pakistani troops buried in avalanche; ISPR releases names of soldiers

Rawalpindi: At least 124 Pakistani soldiers including a colonel and 11 civilians were buried in avalanche at around 6:00 am on Saturday.

Pakistan army sent heavy equipment sniffers dogs and helicopters to the area to expedite the rescue operation.

The Siachen Glacier is located in the eastern Karakoram Range in the Himalaya, just east of the Line of Control between India-Pakistan.

Later, ISPR releases the names of persons buried under snow slide in Gayari sector near Skardu.

Complete list of Soliders:

Officers
PA-32596 Lt Col Tanvir Ul Hassan

PA-39548 Maj Zaka Ul Haq

PA-105358 Capt Haleem Ullah( AMC)

Junior Commission Officers
N/Sub Khurshid

N/Sub Didar

N/Sub Malik

N/Sub Iftikhar

Havildar
Hav Rehber

Hav Haji Shafayat

10. Hav Zakir

11. Hav Gulfraz

12. Hav Shah Nawaz

13. Hav Musadiq

14. Hav Rustam

15. Hav Shad

16. Hav Ghulam Muhammad

17. Hav Sher Nayab

18. Hav Ishaq

19. Hav Tanvir

Lance Havildar / NaiK

20. L/Hav Mustafa

21. L/Hav Ghulam Qadir

22. Nk Ashraf

23. Nk Sartaj

24. Nk Mudasar

25. Nk Jabbar

Lance Naik / Sepoy

26. Lnk Irshad

27. Lnk Sami Ullah

28. Lnk Sharafat

29. Lnk Mustafa

30. Lnk Himayat

31. Lnk Altaf

32. Lnk Mir Hussain

33. Lnk Irfan

34. Sep Ali Zar

35. Sep Saleem

36. Sep Malik Riaz

37. Sep Jamil

38. Sep Akhtar

39. Sep Nadir Wali

40. Sep Israr

41. Sep Sajid

42. Sep Naseer

43. Sep Dildar

44. Sep Zaman

45. Sep Irfan Khalil

46. Sep Waseem

47. Sep Ehsan

48. Sep Ashraf

49. Sep Riaz

50. Sep Shoaib

51. Sep Iqbal

52. Sep Mumtaz

53. Sep Haider

54. Sep Mehtab

55. Zulqarnain

56. Sep Ghulab Shah

57. Sep Rehmat Wali

58. Sep Nadeem

59. Sep Nafs Ali

60. Sep Nadeem Hashmi

61. Sep Qurban

62. Sep Muhammad Khan

63. Sep Akbar

64. Sep Ali Muhammad

65. Sep Muhammad Ali

66. Sep Amin

67. Sep Fiaz

68. Sep Shakeel

69. Sep Siraj

70. Sep Fazal Abbas

71. Sep Javed

72. Sep Javed

73. Sep Sakhi Zaman

74. Sep Sajjad Kazmi

75. Sep Fida Hussain

76. Sep Naeem

77. Sep Shamim

78. Sep Zakir

79. Sep Nisar Hussain

80. Sep Aurangzeb

81. Sep Arshad

82. Sep Sultan

83. Sep Muhammad Hussain

84. Sep Nasir

85. Sep Ilyas

86. Sep Mukhtiar

87. Sep Fida Hussain

88. Sep Zaheer

89. Sep Naseer

90. Sep Aftab

91. Sep Adil

92. Sep Muzamil

93. Sep Sarfraz

94. Sep Shameer

95. Sep Soba Khan

96. Sep Abid

97. Sep Ishaq

98. Sep Aksar Zaman

99. Sep Najeeb Ullah

Sep Siraj Ud Din

Sep Jaffar

Sep Ansar

Sep Ishaq

Sep Ghulam Rasool

Sep Muhammad Hussain

Sep Jumma khan

Sep Muhammad Ali

Sep Zakir Kawardo

Sep Ghulam Mehdi

Sep Ghazi Shah

Sep Sana Ullah

Sep Imtiaz

Sep Hameed Ullah

Sep Sadiq Gultri

Sep Gul Daz ( FS Sec)

Clerks

Nk / Clk Ghulam Nabi

Nk/ Clk Ghulam Ali

Cooks

Sep/Ck Muhammad Ali

Sep/Ck Karim

Sep/Ck Ghulam Mehdi

Sweepers
Moon Gul

Asif

Naveed

Ali

Civilian (paid out of defence establishment)
Jalil (Waiter)

Hameed ( Waiter)

Nasrullah (Barber)

Muhammad Ameer (Barber)

Waheed ( Canteen)

Azeem (Canteen)

Sarfraz (Dhobi)

Wali (Dhobi)

Noor Shah ali (Dhobi)

Sabir (Tailor)

Ghulam Rasool (NCB) – Uncfm/Suspected

via: thenewstribe.com

news on 9 April 2012

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News of 11 April 2012

Siachen Rescue Operation Continues:

Rescuers searching for 138 people buried under a huge avalanche at an army camp in Siachen are concentrating their efforts on five points at the site, the military said on Tuesday.

Experts say there is little chance of finding any survivors at the site, which is at an altitude of around 4,000 metres (13,000 feet). Despite harsh conditions, the military said efforts had intensified, with more than 450 people taking part — up from 286 late on Monday — aided by mechanical earth movers, bulldozers and excavators, and work is focusing on certain key areas.

“Five points have been identified on the site where rescue work is in progress,” the military said in a statement. “Two points are being dug with equipment while three points are being dug manually.”

Photographs released by the military on Tuesday showed diggers and rescuers at work on an almost featureless expanse of dirty grey snow and ice, with no trace visible of the camp that had been the 6th Northern Light Infantry headquarters.

The total number believed missing in the disaster rose to 138 on Tuesday, as the military released an updated list naming 127 soldiers and 11 civilians. They include a lieutenant colonel, a major and a captain.

Manzoor Hussain, the president of the Alpine Club of Pakistan, said the camp had probably been hit by a chunk of glacier that split from the main mass. He said there was ‘no possibility’ of anyone surviving and warned efforts to find those buried under the mass of snow using specialist equipment would become harder.

“It is becoming difficult to locate people through thermal imagery camera and an infra-red system because by now probably there would be no body temperature under the snow,” he told AFP. Colonel (retd) Sher Khan, a mountaineering expert, suggested the devastation may have been caused by a landslide rather than an avalanche. “For me it was a huge landslide provoked by a cloudburst, not an avalanche,” he told AFP.

“In this case a huge flood of water is coming down from the sky and creates a lot of mud and loose earth on the mountain. Mostly boulders, mud and water ran down the mountain.”Khan said several days of freezing temperatures would have hardened the mass of snow, mud and boulders, making digging more difficult.

Specialist teams from the United States, Switzerland and Germany have arrived in Pakistan to help with the search, though a senior Pakistani security official said the US team had not reached the site due to poor weather.

via: thenews.com.pk

10 April 2012:

Complete List of Soldiers & Civilians who are under snow at This incident Siachen

The total number of missing people in the disaster rose to 138 on Tuesday, as the military released an updated list naming 127 soldiers and 11 civilians. They include a lieutenant colonel, a major and a captain. .

News of 11 April 2012: