{"id":57386,"date":"2019-11-08T15:26:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=57386"},"modified":"2019-11-08T15:26:03","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T10:26:03","slug":"babusar-top-kaghan-road-link-closed-snowfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/babusar-top-kaghan-road-link-closed-snowfall.html","title":{"rendered":"Babusar Top-Kaghan road link closed over snowfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gilgit: The Diamer District Administration (DA) recently notified the closure of the road link situated at Babusar Top (which connects Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan) for six months due to snowfall, a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/pakistan-tourism-sector-gets-usd-100-million-investment-us-businessmen.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pakistan Tourism Sector gets USD 100 million investment from US businessmen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As per details, the administration will keep the road link closed till May 2020. The officials added that they took the decision following the entire Babusar Pass blockade; which was triggered by recent snowfall.<\/p>\n<p>To prevent inconvenience, the authorities concerned will divert the traffic to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/karakoram-highway-reopened-after-glacial-flooding.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karakoram Highway<\/a> during the said time frame.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, the DA had closed the Babusar Top Pass between November abd May due to the heavy snowfall and rains. This measure helps in avoiding mishaps in accordance with steps taken for safety of passengers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/mohmand-village-solar-water-supply-scheme.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohmand village gets solar water supply scheme<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given the heavy snowfall in the areas of Babusar, Darail Tangir, Fairy Meadows, and other hilly regions, the local population has also begun to shift to plan areas \u2013 taking their cattle with them. The temperatures can drop as low as -15 degrees Celsius at night in these areas during the winters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gilgit: The Diamer District Administration (DA) recently notified the closure of the road link situated at Babusar Top (which connects Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit-Baltistan) for six months due to snowfall, a news source reported. Read:\u00a0Pakistan Tourism Sector gets USD 100 million investment from US businessmen As per details, the administration will keep the road link closed till May 2020. The officials added that they took the decision following the entire Babusar Pass blockade; which was triggered by recent snowfall. To prevent inconvenience, the authorities concerned will divert the traffic to Karakoram Highway during the said time frame. In the past, the DA had closed the Babusar Top Pass between November abd May due to the heavy snowfall and rains. This measure helps in avoiding mishaps in accordance with steps taken for safety of passengers. Read:\u00a0Mohmand village gets solar water supply scheme Given the heavy snowfall in the areas of Babusar, Darail Tangir, Fairy Meadows, and other hilly regions, the local population has also begun to shift to plan areas \u2013 taking their cattle with them. The temperatures can drop as low as -15 degrees Celsius at night in these areas during the winters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":57387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13874],"persona":[],"class_list":["post-57386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","tag-details-on-babusar-top-kaghan-road-link-closed-over-snowfall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Babusar Top-Kaghan road link closed over snowfall - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gilgit: The Diamer District Administration (DA) recently notified the closure of the road link situated at Babusar Top (which connects Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/babusar-top-kaghan-road-link-closed-snowfall.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Babusar Top-Kaghan road link closed over snowfall - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gilgit: The Diamer District Administration (DA) recently notified the closure of the road link situated at Babusar Top (which connects Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/babusar-top-kaghan-road-link-closed-snowfall.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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