'Don't send money. Send engineers'

Kamalkote is a small town on the slope of the 4300-metre tall Qazinag mountain. The devastation here is so huge that the Central Reserve Police Force has adopted it in the very first week.

People are nervous, agitated and angry. Those who are stronger -- particularly locals employed with the police, education department or paramilitary forces -- take away most relief materials that arrive in trucks and are normally dumped in open places at the bottom of the hilly area. Those who are mentally deranged or highly disturbed because of death or destruction in their homes don't get relief unless they fight for it or join in the looting.

In Sultandiki village, Izaz Ahmed says, "Committees are formed to distribute relief material. But they give us nothing. Mohammad Azad, a teacher, has piled up all material in his home." Similar complaints are raised against Musdiq, another teacher. Izaz says the Sunni and Shia divide is also visible when distribution takes place.

In Kamlakote, not a single home remains standing. All homes have collapsed in a bizarre manner. If you ask the residents what worries them the most, they reply, 'Mountains.'

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