{"id":4930,"date":"2012-07-09T07:20:04","date_gmt":"2012-07-09T07:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/?p=4930"},"modified":"2012-07-09T07:23:33","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T07:23:33","slug":"guardian-article-on-the-attabad-landslide-and-the-karakoram-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/07\/09\/guardian-article-on-the-attabad-landslide-and-the-karakoram-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian article on the Attabad landslide and the Karakoram Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/2012\/07\/09\/guardian-article-on-the-attabad-landslide-and-the-karakoram-highway\/10_08-attabad-barrier-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4931\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4931\" title=\"10_08 Attabad barrier 3\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/10_08-Attabad-barrier-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/10_08-Attabad-barrier-3.jpg 460w, https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/files\/2012\/07\/10_08-Attabad-barrier-3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2012\/jul\/05\/attabad-pakistani-mountain-village-island\">The Guardian published an article last week<\/a> on the aftermath of the Attabad landslide and the long term implications for the Karakoram Highway and the local people.\u00a0 It includes the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few dozen workers from the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/fwo.com.pk\/\">Frontier Works Organisation<\/a> (FWO), an arm of the Pakistani military, have been making slow progress picking at the massive dam with mechanical diggers and explosives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They are badly equipped and not properly qualified,&#8221; said Amin Beg, an official with the <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.akrsp.org.pk\/\">Aga Khan Rural Support Programme<\/a>, a charity that works in the area. &#8220;The people here wanted the contract for draining the lake to be given to the Chinese. They actually care about this road because they have a strategic interest in it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After two years of work, the FWO has only succeeded in lowering the water level by about 10 metres.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whilst mostly factually correct (although I would quibble with the comment that they are unqualified and poorly equipped &#8211; that is not my experience at all),\u00a0 the criticism seems a little harsh on the FWO, who have been expending considerable effort on this difficult project over the last winter in very harsh conditions.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Guardian article on the Attabad landslide in Pakistan rather harshly criticises the FWO for their work on the spillway<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":4931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[967,47,469,959,10],"class_list":["post-4930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-landslide-report","tag-attabad","tag-barrier-lake","tag-featured","tag-landslide-report","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.agu.org\/landslideblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}