The body preserved by the ice of a Pakistanis who disappeared 28 years ago was found intact, accompanied by the victim’s identity card during the melting of a glacier. The body was finally buried on Wednesday.
Nasiruddin, who has only one patronym, had disappeared in 1997, in Kohistan, on the foothills of Himalayas, in the mountainous province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, border of Afghanistan.
The man, then 31, had left his house after a family quarrel and crossed a mountain with his brother when he had fallen into a crevasse. His brother had been able to return to his village.
“Our family has tried everything to find him over the years,” said Malik Ubaid, his nephew. “Our uncles and cousins went to the glacier several times to try to recover his body, but they had to abandon, for lack of equipment necessary at the time,” he added.
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The body of Nasiruddin, married and father of two children at the time of his disappearance, finally resurfaced naturally on the Lady Meadows glacier, whose cast iron accelerated with climate change, before being seen on July 31 by dumb.
“The discovery of his body finally brought us respite,” assured Malik Ubaid.
Pakistan is home to more than 13,000 glaciers, more than any other country outside the polar land. But the increase in global temperatures linked to climate change causes rapidly cast iron of glaciers.
