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WHY CHITRAL IS BEING TARGETED?
I have an article before me regarding earthly matters published in
Daily Dawn October 4, 2009.
Rina Saeed Khan has captioned the article with a
photograph of Chitral and titled it "flooding from glaciers".
She writes "I was in Chitral last week to have a closer look at new
phenomenon caused by climate change called GLOF (Glacial lake
outburst flood) which is devastating where ever it occurs due to
the shrinking of glaciers.
She further writes, hanging glaciers located at
low and mid altitudes in mountain valleys are the most at risk from
global warming when they burst as they have in Chitral and Gilgit,
the villagers lives have disrupted and they find it very difficult
to recover.
She refers to Breb and Darkhot glaciers, which,
one can see for above the village is a vast glacier and some fear
that it might start melting again.
She warns at the end ‘the people of Chitral did
not cause global warming but they are paying a heavy price because
of it’.
Without the knowledge of Glaciology, one cannot guess the effects
of the global warming on the glaciers but the humans can see the
exemplary equilibrium and the balance which the Creator of the
universe has maintained in it.
Disasters and catastrophes are of two kinds:
natural as well as man made as mentioned in the Holy Quran.
"Fasad, the evil has appeared on land and sea because of what the
hands of men have earned that Allah may make them taste a part of
that which they have done" Verse: 41 Surah: 30, Al-Rum.
I don’t know the knowledgeable writer is
referring to the man made catastrophe or otherwise. What kind of
new phenomena of GLOF the writer is pointing out about Chitral for
its ‘close look’ she has recently traveled to Chitral? She refers
that "19000 volunteers in Chitral district have been trained to
alert community members and escape to safe routes. They also supply
each village cluster group with emergency supplies that are kept in
store in case there is a disaster like a landslide, avalanche,
earthquake, flashflood or GLOF". She refers to an Indian
glaciologist Syed Iqbal Husnain whom she met at Katmandu during a
climate change media training workshop who had pointed 52 dangerous
Glaciers. The Indian advocated close monitoring and putting early
warning systems in place.
We may guess that the Indian expert refers to
man made disasters for which he & Rina Saeed Khan issues warning to
those people who never receive warming even in summer season in
Chitral.
Thus, the people of Chitral have the right to
ask the government agencies what is going on? Who is behind the
scene and what kind of technology is being used for this negative
purpose? Why these kinds of warnings in the name of warming are
being issued in newspapers and media especially in the month of
October which has been categorized as the "month of Vengeance"
according to the ancient Jews Semitic calendar? WE need an answer,
why Chitral & peace loving Chitralis are being targetted???
HABIB UR REHMAN CHITRALI
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