The earthquake badly damaged the third storey, leaving his youngest uncle dead on the spot. They included Kashmiri’s family, his parents and two siblings who lived on the ground floor, his younger uncle’s family of seven on the first floor, and his youngest uncle’s family of eight on the second. Kashmiri’s three-storey house on a six-marla plot along a backstreet was home to three families, comprising 20 members. And within the municipal limits of Muzaffarabad, the entire old city - Khawaja Mohalla being part of it - was completely flattened.
Muzaffarabad was the worst-hit district in AJK due to its proximity to the epicentre of the quake. Tens of thousands lost their lives, hundreds of thousands were injured, and countless others were rendered homeless.
Faisal Jamil Kashmiri was chatting with a neighbour outside his home in Khawaja Mohalla, one of the oldest and thickly populated parts of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) capital, Muzaffarabad, when a devastating earthquake rocked northern Pakistan on the morning of October 8, 2005.
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