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...Karakoram Highway, which was built with the aid of the Chinese along the old silk route linking Tibet and Kashmir. "When the quake started at dusk, I was saying my prayers with five other policemen in the police-station mosque," recalled Constable Mian Zar of the village of Pattan. "Suddenly, the whole building started shaking and the roof collapsed. Three of my colleagues were killed...
...Pattan (pop. 10,000), which lies on the western bank of the Indus River in a bowl of snow-capped mountains, was completely destroyed. Across the river in the village of Palos, a mosque collapsed, killing 40 worshipers. A 25-mile portion of the Karakoram Highway caved in, while huge boulders blocked other sections...
...modest man so I wouldn't want to take the credit for it," said Gilbert Pattan, author of the numerous "Frank Morriwell" stories, "but it is a fact that enrollment at Yale has increased since Frank first entered those hallowed halls...
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