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Compounding the misery: Relief efforts halted in AJK

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24.07.2025
With the first snowfall of the season in upper Neelum and Jhelum valleys, Rawalakot and Haveli districts of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, most of the humanitarian organisations have halted their operations in quake and flood-stricken areas. “The relief and rehabilitation operations have been temporarily suspended on Friday as high-altitude areas of the flood affected region received winter’s first snowfall and plains took lashing of moderate rain, compounding the miseries of homeless flood victims,” Mubashar Niaz, chief of HEED Association, a humanitarian organisation told The Express Tribune after arriving in Muzaffarabad from Neelum valley. We have temporarily called back our technical and volunteer staff engaged in humanitarian work in Jagran areas of Neelum........

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