It was a different day altogather .. the way it began had something different about it .. these days its the month of Ramazan in the muslim calender and most of the muslims are fasting.. (for fasting u have to wake up before the morning prayer (around 4.00 am ) and have something to eat then pray and get to work or sleep) .. but since i had some work that needed submission today i had been up almost all night.. around 4.30 had food said my prayers and came to sleep.. but strangely enough even though i had been working continously for so many hours and had been up all night i couldnt really get to sleep.. then i slept after day break and woke up just before the earth quake..
the earthquake was severe had unbelievable power in it 7.6 they say.. and it kept on going for 6 mins.. the trembling wouldnt stop..

everyone aroudn seemed ok but the earthquake had definitely left some sort of a scar inside.. there was this uneasy feeling that lingerd on.. turned on the tv found out that a local apartment building had collapsed due to it .. didnt seem very real at first.. but it was real.. some 250 apartments collapsed while ppl were inside sleeping.. with kids having a day off from school since its saturday.. with most of the people inside.. and the building was a crumbled mess..

i took a shower had to go to work so got in my car took the safest route to reach office which wouldnt require too much traffic dodging.. but outside all the roads were blocked.. people were getting to the building for sight seeing.. emergency crews were getting stuck due to the massive influx of the masses.. but after a few detours i reached the office..

found out everyone from there had gone to the building to volenteer for help.. i turned on the tv.. on it were stories from people from adjacent buildings who saw people coming out to the balcony's of the other buidling before they all went down.. the storries were horrific..

the whole day people came back and forth from the building with new stories of horror, blood and gore.. we did all we could do sending water etc to the people who were trapped inside ..

while all this was going on there were after shocks and plenty of them.. very frequent too and quite strong.. tehy have reported 18 aftershocks..

people were helping frantically around the collapsed building .. this was all being shown on the news.. when the news of major damage around the northwestern province started to pour in.. there was news of total villages and towns wiped out of the face of the earth due to massive landsliding..

its too sad.. honestly enough.. the terrain in the hindukash and korakoram range is already too difficult .. and with such massive damage there rescue work is nearly impossible.. but due to our military presence in kashmir they are supposedly helping people.. but then again there were consitant calls on tv of people telling of massive death and people lying on the roads.. dead..

they say that in that area almost 9 out of 10 houses have fallen .. and with each household someone has lost a family member.. that could be seen around when ppl were leaving for those areas.. they had no news or bad news..

and the worst part about all of this was a hail storm has started .. and strangly enough for the first time in my life have i seen only hail falling with no rain.. but then the rain came.. and so did the thunderstorm with falling lightening and all.. the thunder when lightening strikes is quite unnerving specially when u have been through 18 earthquakes in a day.. and too imagine the people with no houses and loved ones dead around them outside on a landslide hit area in the rain is just so painful.
May God help us all..