Raashid Wali Janjua
Islamabad: With 13,000 deaths and practically every house rendered uninhabitable, the days after the first earthquake were the most tough for survival. By a strange coincidence on October 8 2022 when I reminisce of that cataclysmic day it was again a Saturday just like the one on October 8 2005.
People mostly were taking nap after Ramadan sehri while children were at school. The tragedy at schools was another sad chapter as the school buildings collapsed and at several places children lay buried beneath the collapsed roofs.
The pain and anguish of the affected parents was indescribable. The civil administration and police were equally affected and there was no semblance of government apparatus. The army rose to the occasion despite its own heavy losses and cleared the roads from Rawalpindi to Bagh and other earthquake affected areas.
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