Archive for May, 2007
Foundation layed for New Balakot
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf presided on Monday over a ceremony to mark the beginning of construction of a new town to replace one almost completely destroyed in a 2005 earthquake.
The northern town of Balakot suffered the most severe damage in the Oct. 8, 2005, earthquake that killed 73,000 people in Pakistan. Rather then rebuilding it on two fault lines, authorities are moving the town to a site 22 km (15 miles) away.