20 years on, 1,000 quake-hit K-P schools yet to be rebuilt

20 years on, 1,000 quake-hit K-P schools yet to be rebuilt

October 8 (today) marks 20 years since the devastating 2005 earthquake that struck Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) and parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), killing more than 85,000 people and causing massive destruction. Among the fatalities, there were thousands of school-going children, who had just gathered for the morning assembly, when the earthquake struck. According to official data, around 3,900 schools were either flattened or severely damag…