In a remarkable discovery, the body of a man who disappeared 28 years ago has been found almost perfectly preserved inside a melting glacier in northern Pakistan. Naseeruddin, who vanished in 1997 while fleeing a violent feud with his family, was identified through an identity card found alongside his remains near the receding Lady Meadows glacier in Kohistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Local shepherd Omar Khan, who first spotted the body on July 31, told BBC Urdu he was stunned by its condition.
“The body was intact, and the clothes were not even torn,” he said. Naseeruddin’s family, who had long given up hope of recovering his remains, expressed both grief and relief. “We searched for years but eventually stopped believing we’d find him,” said his nephew Malik Obaid. The victim, a husband and father of two, was buried on Wednesday after a formal identification process.
Authorities confirmed Naseeruddin had fallen into a glacier crevice during a snowstorm in June 1997. The discovery highlights the accelerating glacial melt in Pakistan’s northern regions, home to over 13,000 glaciers—the most outside the polar regions. Scientists attribute the rapid thaw to climate change, which has made such recoveries increasingly common as ancient ice retreats. (Sources: BBC)
