 BANA: Plans have been put in place to evacuate 100,000 people from Allai, the army has said. Since the catastrophic earthquake of October 8, the mountains in the region have been tipped by a cloud of blue smoke, which local people say they have never seen before. The reports from Allai, a community of some 150,000 people in the NWFP's Battagram district, are being taken seriously. The military ordered a seismic survey of the area a few days ago, and while the team has reported that volcanic activity is 'unlikely', the evacuation is still going ahead as a precaution. Locals believe that the mysterious smoke and a series of unexplained, loud blasts heard frequently in the area, sometimes at intervals of only a few hours, are the result of volcanic activity deep within the mountains. | Or somebody is very quietly dropping very large deep penetration bombs on a target? |
Brigadier Khalid Mahmood Ahmed, in charge of the military base set up by the Pakistan Army at Battagram, has confirmed to journalists - after flying over the area in a helicopter to check the reports - that he too has seen the blue smoke, saying: "I can say it is definitely coming from the mountains, as are the sounds of the blasts."
| We're going to keep this up until they're all Unitarians, you know... |
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