Intact body of Pakistani found after 28 years

The family of a missing man whose body was discovered on a melting glacier in Pakistan after 28 years said yesterday its recovery had brought them relief.

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The body of 31-year-old Nasiruddin was spotted by locals near the edge of the shrinking Lady Meadows glacier in the Kohistan region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

His family said he and his brother had fled to the mountains after a dispute in their village in 1997 when he fell into a crevasse. His brother survived.

Family's attempts