Gone, in Six Seconds: The Pakistan Earthquake Claimed Hundreds of Years of Glorious History [7min @ 22:15]
In the mountains surrounding the earthquake zone in Pakistan, snow is beginning to settle. In the sprawling tent camps pitched amid the ruins of the October disaster, disease is beginning to settle. The quake wiped out an untold number of lives. That we know. But it also wiped out some history. The Red Fort of Muzaffarabad, for one, stood like a sentinel over the city for nearly 500 years; a testament to the enduring character of those who once lived there. CBC correspondent Laura Lynch walked the rubble to see what it says about those left alive today.
Read entire article at CBC Radio One "Dispatches" Nov. 17, 2005