The committee was briefed on Karakoram Highway Thakot-Raikot section realignment project but no major progress was made. PHOTO: FILE
The Karakoram Highway has been reopened after landslides blocked some sections of the critical route, after a massive rockfall at Lotar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Upper Kohistan district left thousands of passengers stranded on both sides of the road.
According to the GBDMA, continuous rainfall since Monday triggered heavy rockslides at 4am on Tuesday, completely blocking a 100-metre stretch of the KKH at Lotar, near Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan. The KKH is the only route connecting Gilgit-Baltistan with the rest of Pakistan during winter, making its closure a severe disruption for residents, traders and travellers.
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