{"id":32438,"date":"2013-01-31T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-30T19:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=32438"},"modified":"2013-01-31T03:53:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T22:53:38","slug":"chopper-makes-first-sorite-to-gojal-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/2013\/01\/31\/chopper-makes-first-sorite-to-gojal-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Chopper makes first sorite to Gojal Valley, five stranded commuters evacuated on the first day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gulmit: One chopper made a sorite today but more sorties will have to be made to evacuate hundreds of the stranded passengers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Gilgit, January 30:<\/strong>\u00a0A chopper operated between spillway of the dammed\u00a0Hunza\u00a0River and Gulmit\u00a0today, making only one sortie. Only five people\u00a0out of the hundreds of stranded commuters waiting on both sides of the frozen lake could be evacuated through the chopper, before the fligths were called off due to “technical issues”.<\/p>\n

The local people have hoped that more sorites will be made by the chopper in the days ahead to end the suffering of the people.<\/p>\n

Police were also deployed in large numbers near the chopper landing site in Gulmit\u00a0to control the groups of people who had gathered with the anticipation of being carried out of the disaster hit valley.<\/p>\n

According to locals stuck in Aliabad, the administration did not inform the commuters about the place from where they had to be air-lifted. Later it was found that the sortie will be made from the spillway of the dammed\u00a0river to Gulmit. On learning this hundreds of passengers reached the spillway from Aliabad. After waiting there for several hours they were told that the chopper had developed a technical fault and could not be operated for rest of the day.<\/p>\n

The dis-hearted, penniless\u00a0and helpless passengers had to return to Aliabad, to spend their eighth night in the town.<\/p>\n

Students demand facilitation from KIU administration <\/strong><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the former Chairman of Gojal\u00a0Youth Forum, Sherullah\u00a0Baig, has demanded of the KIU\u00a0administration to extend the date for submission of fees s for BA examination because many students have not been able to reach Gilgit\u00a0due to the suspension of boat service in Gojal Valley.<\/p>\n

He also demanded extension in the admission dates at the Karakoram International University.<\/p>\n

Sherullah\u00a0Baig\u00a0said that the KIU administration should realize severity of the situation and react in a more considerate manner, while facilitating the students in the hours of need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gilgit, January 30:\u00a0A chopper operated between spillway of the dammed\u00a0Hunza\u00a0River and Gulmit\u00a0today, making only one sortie. Only five people\u00a0out of the hundreds of stranded commuters waiting on both sides of the frozen lake could be evacuated through the chopper, before the fligths were called off due to “technical issues”. The local people have hoped that …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":{"id":32439,"alt_text":"","caption":"Gulmit: One chopper made a sorite today but more sorties will have to be made to evacuate hundreds of the stranded passengers ","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":1100,"height":825,"file":"2013\/01\/Chopper.jpg","sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Chopper-250x250.jpg","width":250,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper.jpg?resize=250%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium":{"file":"Chopper-450x337.jpg","width":450,"height":337,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper.jpg?fit=450%2C337&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"Chopper-600x449.jpg","width":600,"height":449,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper.jpg?fit=600%2C449&ssl=1"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"Chopper-50x50.jpg","width":50,"height":50,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper-50x50.jpg"},"gab_featured":{"file":"Chopper-800x600.jpg","width":800,"height":600,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper-800x600.jpg"},"415x260":{"file":"Chopper-415x260.jpg","width":415,"height":260,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper-415x260.jpg"},"150x150":{"file":"Chopper-150x150.jpg","width":150,"height":150,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper-150x150.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":0,"credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":0,"copyright":"","focal_length":0,"iso":0,"shutter_speed":0,"title":""}},"post":32438,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Chopper.jpg?fit=1100%2C825&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32438"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32452,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32438\/revisions\/32452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}