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PAKISTAN. THE FACE–OFF CITIES. SIX MOTHS UPON THE TRAGEDY.
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Over three million people were made homeless by the earthquake on October 08 of 2005. The long and harsh Himalayan winter's approach has begun to hamper relief operations to the region's most remote areas, reachable only by helicopters and only in good weather. International aid agencies made an urgent appeal for help Pakistani earthquake survivors, warning of dire winter. Orangzeb,33 seen amid the rubble of his home.
2006
People living on mountain tops in remote villages were reluctant to come down to refugee camps at lower levels. Some felt compelled to stay where they were, in part to look after their land and livestock. This is one of scattered tents in the rural Himalayas, several miles away from the earthquake epicentre.
2006
The quake has created huge lakes where the water level has started rising and these giant reservoirs had to be drained carefully to avert threats to nearby villages. Children Rashida,10 and Asif,6 stare at a lake in the Himalayas, the epicentre of an earthquake.
2006
Rashida,10 , Adman,59 and Asad,13 - residents of Showai village in rural Himalayas seen in their
2006
SNOWSTORM STARTS IN HIMALAYAS MOUNTAINSIDES.
2006
Rural scattered settlements at Himalayas' mountainsides have been badly hit by the earthquake.
2006
Men clear away the heaps of ruins at Muzaffarabad medical college site.
2006
Najma,16 is one of the earthquake' survivors. In her medical college' classroom 150 girls were killed.
2006
Men clear away the heaps of ruins at Muzaffarabad medical college site.
2006

I WENT PAKISTAN SIX MONTHS UPON THE EARTHQUAKE, WHICH HAS WIPED MANY CITIES AND VILLAGES OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. HERE ARE THE IMAGES OF THESE FACE-OFF PLACES, AND PEOPLE, STILL BELONGING TO THEM



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