The Karakoram Post

Army aviation helicopter that went missing yesterday
Crashed near Lasbela city of Balochistan...
6 officers, including the Corps Commander Balochistan, who were in the helicopter, were martyred.

Names of officers on board the helicopter
Corps Commander XII Corps Lieutenant General Sarfraz Sattar
Director General Pakistan Coast Guard, Major General Amjad Commander Engineers XII Corps, Brigadier Khalid
Major Saeed (Pilot)
Major Talha (Co-Pilot)
Crew Chief Naik Mudassar

Major bridge on KKH washed away after fresh flood in Uchar Nallah according to Pamir Timea.

Chinese camp also damaged severely by the fresh flood that came down at around 2am last night.

There are reports that the flood debris blocked the Indus River for several minutes last night.

PTI wins 04 seats out of 06 in Gilgit Baltistan Council Elections 2021. PPP and PMLN succeeded to get 01 seat each.

Senior journalist Amjad Hussain Barcha was arrested from Hunza last night and shifted to Gilgit after posting news related to DIG Gilgit region Mian Muhammad Saeed.
As reported by Amjad Barcha, DIG is involved in harassment of newly recruited female police personnel at the training center.

Gilgit:
Wajid Ullah Nagari , a young climber from Nagar and two foreign climbers climbed the 7788-meter-high peak.
Wajidullah himself started this dangerous adventure on August 31, 2021 with a new route.
A team of climbers named Wajidullah Nagri, Jacob Thomson and Peter have discovered a new route of Rakaposhi and have managed to climb the same route.

En-route to Islamabad, PK 404 departed Gilgit on August 25, 1989 and lost communication within 10 minutes of take-off. Later PIA declared the flight missing and presumed the 54 onboard dead including 5 crew members.
After disappearance, several aerial and ground search missions were conducted by Pak Army but all in vain.
Although PIA presumed that the aircraft crashed but their is a rumour that the flight was shot down by India after.
Families demanded that rumours should be properly investigated.

Attabad Lake Hydro Power Project approved by ECNEC

Attabad Lake at Stake:
Attabad Lake, formed due to a landslide at Attabad Sarat Hunza in 2010 is in vulnerable condition.

According to reports nature conservation organizations have expressed serious concerns on the unplanned construction of hotels and resorts around the lake. The sewerage and waste disposal isn't done keeping the environmental standards. Another serious threat is posed by the increasing number of speed boats operated for the excursion of tourists at the lake. These motor boats fuel and fumes also contribute a lot in the degradation of this ecosystem.

It is pertinent to mention that in a recent flooding event at Aeenabad Nullah has partially damaged a luxury resort built at the bank of Attabad Lake. The resort was lashed out by social media activists over polluting the lake by mismanaging their wastes and sewers.

DG WWF-Pakistan Hammad Naqi Khan m in a letter dated 14th July 2021 to the Director Gilgit-Baltistan Environmental Protection Agency raised similar concerns on this issue and offered to conduct a collaborative site assessment.

A meeting of the IUCN Pakistan National Committee Members held on July 30, 2021 also expressed their concerns on the said issue. The participants have demanded that GBEPA should enforce strict regulations to protect the fragile eco-sytem of Attabad Lake. The meeting was chaired by Dr. Roomi S. Hayat, and Malik Amin Aslam Khan Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Climate Change and IUCN Global Vice President and Regional Councilor Asia also attended the meeting.