Quake victims fear for lives as the snows arrive.(Foreign News)

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: November 28, 2005 | Copyright information

Byline: Arifa Akbar in Kashmir

'Look, it has arrived. We sit under a naked sky and we shrink at night. We have nothing between us and the snow,' said Abdul Kareem Imanullah, pointing at the white powdered mountain peaks of the Himalayas in the Jhelum Valley.

For Mr Imanullah, his fellow villagers from remote mountain communities and the 3.5 million people made homeless by the earthquake in Kashmir, the first snowfalls and sub-zero temperatures at night signif...

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