The meteorological office has said that dry weather is likely to prevail in the area for the next 24 hours so there is hope that the excavation process will pick up pace.
According to an ISPR official, the Chinese team is equipped with a radar system that can help trace bodies buried underground. The official added that the Chinese team joined rescuers who were already tunnelling and excavating, trying to reach the accommodation area that was identified by the Army Engineering Corps and geological experts.
The official added that eight US experts besides Norwegian and Chinese rescue teams arrived on Sunday and immediately joined the rescue operation at Giari sector.
Talking about the morale of the troops busy searching for their trapped comrades, a military official said that “All the soldiers participating in the rescue operation are ready to sacrifice their lives for their brothers trapped under the snow, we even see tears in their eyes while operating machines over the roof of Sixth Northern Light Infantry headquarters.”
According to the helpline sources, the German and Swiss experts who have been at the site since five days pointed out three priority points where rescue work was under way.
The experts are of the view that using traditional digging tools instead of deploying heavy machinery at these probable points would be more suitable as the snow and sludge busters were very soft at some points and could react to heavy machinery, resulting in a swamp marsh.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 16th, 2012.
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Where are our poets, our thinkers, and those who can alter the mind set of the ruling elite, and shake the consciousness of our society? Are they afraid to speak the truth..... Or are they as yet cowering under an avalanche of deciet and lies / just as our sons too stare with opaque eyes / lips and limbs for ever frozen / unable to hear our eternal salaams, unable to say their last goodbyes/ The land of the pure shows true the theory of the Gaia / even as the blood flows in vain like the valleys of the Maya / Baichaari Mamta sar zameen pai yeh konsa hai waqt aaya / kai dard e dil sai pehlai kashmir kamp gia tha / duryaai Sindh ko apnai ansoon sai chalak kar / Maan kee sees nai Siachen ko haai ab hilaya / Oh weep not Mother Earth, for ye can never atone / for those with little minds and hearts of stone / Even as your writhing and rumbles moves this nation / you can never know the science of genetic mutation /
May those who perished on both sides of the Glacier, forever rest in peace, you've paid your dues with your priceless lives.
It is a sombre situation. The above comments are rather short on compassion.
@ ashok are you trying to show concern for our soldiers buried under avalanche or upset about Pakistan's nuclear status.
...........................Rescue teams from the US, Norway and China arrived in Siachen.....new kickbacks comming......how many we will pay to them???.....another MILLIONS $ WAITING FOR YOU GENERALS!!!!!!
After 9 days this is no longer a rescue mission but a recovery mission
Just to remind the readers that Pakistan is a NUCLEAR WEAPON nation and the only Muslim nation with Islamic nuclear bombs on this planet.