Srinagar: The body of a man who went missing 28 years ago has been found astonishingly well-preserved inside a glacier in remote northern Pakistan. According to the BBC, Naseeruddin had been travelling with his family in 1997 to escape a violent feud when he vanished.
On July 31, locals in the Kohistan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa spotted the preserved body near the edge of the shrinking Lady Meadows glacier. An identity card found alongside confirmed it was Naseeruddin.
“What I saw was unbelievable — the body was intact, and the clothes were not even torn,” Omar Khan, a local shepherd who discovered the remains, told BBC Urdu.
The family expressed gratitude upon the discovery, with Mr Ubaid stating they finally found some relief after recovering his body. He was buried on Wednesday.
One of his nephews Malik Obaid according to reports said that our uncles and cousins visited the glacier several times to see if his body could be retrieved, but they eventually gave up as it wasn’t possible.
The Kohistan region in northern Pakistan, near the Afghanistan border, once experienced consistent snowfall. However, rising global temperatures linked to human-driven climate change have accelerated glacial melt. As per AFP, Pakistan is home to more than 13,000 glaciers, more than anywhere else on Earth outside the poles.
Police said Naseeruddin had fallen into a glacier crevice during a snowstorm in June 1997 and never returned. A husband and father of two, his fate had remained a mystery for nearly three decades.
