Ghizer Chitral road remains blocked for over a week due to avalanche causing food shortages and travel disruptions

Ghizer Chitral road remains blocked for over a week due to avalanche causing food shortages and travel disruptions

The Ghizer-Chitral highway, shut following a large avalanche, still closes even seven days later, inducing acute inconvenience among the people who live around it. Extended blocking has, to a degree, increased food crisis concerns over shortage in Ghizer’s high terrain areas where there is considerable effort in receiving essential supplies in their area. On top of all this, it has kept traveling individuals in jams, such that they’ve resorted t…