BATTAGRAM/GILGIT: In a tense operation, authorities announced on Tuesday that they had successfully saved eight individuals, including multiple schoolchildren, from a precarious situation in KP’s Battagram district. The stranded cable car, whose rope broke mid-air in Allai Teh­sil, is suspended hundreds of feet over a mountainous valley. Chairlifts, locally known as “Gardi” in GB, are traditionally used by people to cross rivers and shorten the … Continue reading Lifesavers or death-traps: the cable car dilemma