It was extremely shocking and traumatic as what happened in Pakistan the 2005 Kashmir earthquake occurred at 08:52 on  Pakistan standard time. and was centered in the Pakistan administered Kashmir near the city of Muzaffarabad, and also affected the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.  Magnitude Mw = 7.6 earthquake struck the Himalayan region of northern Pakistan and Kashmir. The earthquake epicenter was located approximately 9 km north northeast of the city of Muzaffarabad, the capital of the Pakistani-administered part of Kashmir, known as Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK).

The city’s only health facility, with 400-beded Combined Military Hospital was probably the first victim of the earthquake leaving some 200 dead. There was no power supply in the city. Telephone lines were also dead and no diesel or petrol was available in the city to run any vehicle. In such a calamity the medical staff could do nothing more than minor surgery, and few administering anti-biotic injections. The patients were scattered all over the ground with some lying on the cots brought from home.

 

While the rescuers were pulling out dead children in Muzaffarabad, there was none to claim the bodies. It clearly indicated that their parents were also died. The rescue effort had been slowed by landslides, which had wiped out roads and bridges, and a lack of helicopters to ferry in vital heavy lifting equipment. A road was re-opened into Muzaffarabad where 11,500 are thought to have died, allowing trucks to deliver food and medical supplies. People were becoming more desperate with medical, and food supplies and trucks, which were so late to deliver food because of closed roads. There was many a report of looting at damaged shops and homes.

The death toll was over hundred thousand and seriously injured were in a large number. It was the greatest life loss the country ever faced.

It was a testing time for the nation of Pakistan and every body of nation feel their pain but people faced that calamity with ineffable courage and pluck as thousands of people flocked to help their fellow citizens, who had been hit by the worst and most horrible earthquake. Thousands of people rushed to different camps and donate generously and open-heartedly.