OPINION

Kesu village[/caption][caption id=\"attachment_30665\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"1500\"] Jinjiret[/caption][caption id=\"attachment_30664\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"940\"] affected kids in Chitral town[/caption][caption id=\"attachment_30662\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"940\"] A quake-affected boy in Drosh[/caption][caption id=\"attachment_30661\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"940\"] A man sits on rubble of his damaged home in Charun-Oveer[/caption]]]>

According to conservative estimates, about 800 small businesses (shops, stores, godowns, fruit orchards, and set-ups) are fully damaged during the recent floods and earthquake while more than 600 partially damaged. The damage is not only to the physical infrastructure of the businesses but also to the assets. Some shops have been washed away such as

دھڑکنوں کی زبان محمد جاوید حیات شادی کی مبارک باد دینے گھر والوں کے ساتھ وہ بھی گئی ہوئی تھی۔ مگر جاتے جاتے سارے راستے بھرکانٹوں پر پاؤں رکھ رہی تھی ۔اس کو اسیا لگ رہا تھا کہ وہ کائنات کامنحوس جزو ہے۔اس پر آسمان سے کوئی چیز گرے گی ۔پتھر ،کنکر ،کانٹے،اولے۔ کیونکہ وہ

Shah Siddim from afar.[/caption] Getting to Shah Siddim is one of the harder bits. Sited hardly sixty kilometers off the city, it takes us four gruelling hours on rough, bumpy and rocky country roads just to get to Shah Siddim. As we pass Garam Chashma (Hot Springs) on the way to Shah Siddim, we get