Naseeruddin lived in the mountainous region of Kohistan almost thirty years ago. He fled after a violent fight with his family.
His younger brother Gardezi fell victim to honor killings and his family became engaged in legal problems, writes Pakistani news medium The Express Tribune.
Kaseeruddin, another brother of Naseeruddin, also took the legs. The brother says that they had taken an “unconventional route through the mountains” on horseback to “avoid possible dangers.” They would have been shot at during their return trip. Afterdine hid in an icy cave and never returned.
‘The clothes were not even torn’
For a long time there was no trace, but at the beginning of this month that changed. Omar Khan, a local shepherd, found the body of afterdine, in a glacier in Kohistan. “What I saw was incredible,” he told BBC Urdu. “The body was completely intact. The clothes were not even torn.”
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The body could be identified by an undamaged identity card in Naseeruddin’s pocket. The police suspect that he had fallen through the ice.
In Kohistan, located in a remote part of North Pakistan, much more snow used to fall than today. Due to rising temperatures, glaciers melt and human remains are more often found.
Ötzi the ice mummy
Due to a combination of extreme cold, insulation and limited oxygen supply, bodies often remain remarkably well intact in glaciers. A well -known example of this is ‘Ötzi de IJsmummie’, which was found in the Alps in 1991. His body was 5,000 years old, but thanks to the ice, parts of his skin and organs were still intact.