Babusar Top receives season’s first snowfall

With new cold wave, people start descending to lower areas

ABBOTABAD/ ABOTTABAD:

In a sudden change of weather, the snowfall on Babusar Top has heralded the arrival of winter season in the upper parts of the country.

Following the season’s first snowfall on Babusar Top, everything has turned white.

Meanwhile, the snow-loving tourists enjoyed at the Babusar Top and captured the memorable moments of the snowfall in the eyes of their cameras. After the snowfall, a new wave of cold has gripped Babusar Top and the adjoining valleys while the people living at Babusar Top and adjoining valleys have started moving to lower areas.

On the other hand, the heart-touching view of falling leaves in the Kaghan Valley and its adjoining areas announced the arrival of the autumn season. Due to climate changes in Pakistan, the charming weather of Kaghan Valley is also changing slowly. In the current year, Noori Top received more than two feet of snow in mid-July, due to which more than 500 cattle of shepherds on Noori Top were buried in the snow as a result of this unexpected disaster.

The government should make a proper plan to protect the Kaghan valley and the country from sudden changes in climate so that the four seasons of the valley can be kept intact in the future.

Meanwhile, the Abbottabad district administration continues work of inspection/assessment of properties affected by the recent heavy rains and floods in various parts of the district.

In the four tehsils, the respective Additional Assistant Commissioners along with the representatives of the district departments were completing the assessment work. In this regard, ADC Abbottabad along with revenue staff and teams from related departments visited various union councils and villages and compiled a report on the damages caused due to recent rains.

People of the flood-hit areas said that this was the time the district administration started the surveys and assessment of damaged and destroyed property and also demanded to provide financial assistance to the victims at earliest so they would be able to reconstruct their houses.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, September 27^th, 2022.