Pakistan is a country with its high mountains and glaciers, plentiful meadows and high altitude passes. The ice sheet sticking to Miragram Mountain, a pinnacle that towers over the town, has filled in as a repository for local people and fueled bunch streams all through Pakistan’s picturesque Chitral Valley. Presently, however, the locals state that their icy mass — and their lifestyle — is in retreat.
“We stress it might even evaporate and there will be no drinking water,” said Abdul Nasir, 60, facing up at the 19,000-foot peak streaked with flimsy, sketchy day off. “Consistently, it’s liquefying.”
Yet, as in numerous different pieces of the world, analysts state, Pakistan’s icy masses are subsiding, particularly those at lower rises, incorporating here in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northern KPK. Among the causes refered to by researchers: Less snowfall, higher temperatures, heavier summer rainstorms and uncontrolled deforestation.
To many, the 1,000-square-mile Chitral Valley has become a contextual analysis of what could anticipate the remainder of the world if environmental change quickens, transforming life-supporting mountains into new markers of human wretchedness.
In Sonoghur, a little town north of Miragram that was crushed by an icy lake flood in 2007, a moderately aged man started telling a correspondent that India and Israel are liable for ice sheets softening since they don’t need overwhelmingly Muslim Pakistan “to develop and flourish.”
