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Gulmit today


 Are we prepared to manage CHANGE?


This is how Gulmit looks like today it is the landscape that has changed so drastically there are other things like the socio - economical conditions that shows a different look. In some cases people have grown up quite nice relationship but in some other cases relationships have turned quite negative.

I found tension among some people who think they oppressed by the others during the distribution of relief (money and goods) . As the landscape will be never the same again so I am afraid will be relationships among each other. I observed never friendships formed and old one broken

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