🇳🇵 Those giant spiral stones in the clip are not fossils washed out by this week’s Himalayan flood.
The footage is from Jomsom, on the Kali Gandaki in Mustang — a different river system from Rasuwa’s Bhote Koshi. The town sign is in the frame. Muktinath is nearby. The August 26 disaster struck hundreds of kilometers to the east.
The large black stone with the perfect spiral and saffron cloth is a 22-foot Shaligram Sheela replica, carved into a riverbank boulder during a Nepal Academy of Fine Arts workshop from April 20 to May 4, 2026. Local officials billed it then as the world’s largest Shaligram replica, one of about 18 sculptures cut along the Kali Gandaki. It was already a pilgrimage photo stop months before the flood.
Authentic shaligram stones are fossil ammonites from the same river, usually small, naturally formed, and worshipped in Vaishnava tradition as a form of Vishnu. That religious meaning is real. The claim that these house-sized carvings were “unearthed by the cataclysm” and are “the largest ever found” is not.
The Rasuwa search continues separately. As of Friday morning Nepal Police had recovered 469 bodies across eight districts; about 977 people remain listed missing in Nepal, including 517 foreign nationals. A barrier lake upstream is still under watch.
Sources: OnlineKhabar / Rising Nepal (Jomsom sculpture, June 2026); Nepal Police / NDRRMA (Aug. 28 casualty updates).
Look at the state of this children’s ward at PIMs. Totally gutted. People had to break windows and jump out. Emergency gate was closed, fire equipment not working, medical staff not present.
Terrible tragedy. Criminal negligence all round in this public hospital of the federal capital.
No one has voluntarily resigned. Shameful !
Nayyar Bokhari and I were totally shaken by the state of the children’s side of the hospital.
The federal health ministry should have ceased to exist by now after devolution but no, this is how it limps on claiming more and more public money.
@PPP_Org is available for assistance and aid.
Chairman @BBhuttoZardari was the first to take notice of it.
Hearts go out to the families who lost their loved ones. 💔
Life will never be the same again for those bereaved parents. All prayers for them.
Daada abbu .. he was sitting n watching the video of his son’s wedding.. he sat.. watched n watched.. all those cringe 90s songs n all.. n then after an hour.. daadi ammi appeared in that vid ..n he goes “sawere tha betha haan.. hunn nazar aai..” and then he just got up and left
Do you guys realise how corrupt and rotten the entire system in Sindh is? From top to bottom it’s infested by political appointees working for one party. People outside Sindh can’t even imagine what innocent citizens go through.
KARACHI: "He was bathed in acid. They specifically used a drug that is given as an anaesthetic to numb a muscle, but they injected it directly into Mir’s vein. After that, you are not capable of moving enough to make any noise or resist; but you feel all of the pain. All of it."
A 25 year old entrepreneur, who started Wafflix and gave back all the time to his alma mater IBA on lessons learned in his entrepreneurial journey, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in Karachi. His body dumped.
Pakistani LinkedIn is in mourning. No major news channel picked it up. Because in our society people who provide jobs and generate economic value aren’t worth as much as the same politicians and same analysts discussing the same things with the same analysis for decades.
Such a tragedy. The fuel for the city of lights seems to be the blood of the brightest.
The legendary Fortress of Alamut and its associated defensive fortifications are now officially inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, becoming Iran’s 30th World Heritage Site. A proud moment for Iran and for the world’s shared cultural heritage.