Rescue work to recover bodies of 129 soldiers buried in avalanche

(18 Apr 2012) 1. Wide aerial shot of snow covered mountains of Siachen glaciers in the Northern area of Pakistan 2. Wide aerial shot of snow covered mountains through aircraft window 3. Pan of site where avalanche hit 4. Wide of media and army soldiers ascending slope 5. Mid of site, where avalanche hit 6. Wide of rescue workers 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier Saqib Malik, head of rescue operation: "Yes, the sense of loss is there, because they were colleagues you eat and sleep live with them very minute, so the sense of loss is there, but that has not effected or diminished their moral or will to get them out." 8. Mid of machines working to remove ice 9. Mid of soldier and sniffer dog, machine working in background 10. Close of dog, tilt up to soldier 11. Various of machines working 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Brigadier Saqib Malik, head of rescue operation: "We have devised - our experts, the engineers - they have devised a detailed elaborate plan how to go about it. And If you are critically seeing these machines working, you would find that one part it is going into a requisite depth and they are expanding it sideways so that the probability of getting across them increases with every step." 13. Mid of digger moving ice 14. Wide tilt down from mountains to machines working 15. Mid of army soldiers at site 16. Close of frozen water 17. Mid of snow covered mountains, ice in foreground 18. Wide left pan from media and army at avalanche site to mountains STORYLINE: Efforts continued in Pakistan on Wednesday to recover the bodies of 140 people, including 129 soldiers, buried when a massive avalanche hit a military complex close to the Indian border more than a week ago. The troops and civilians were buried under some 25 metres (80 feet) of snow in the Siachen Glacier on the northern tip of Kashmir - a Himalayan region divided between Pakistan and India. Hundreds of Pakistani soldiers, with the help of heavy machinery and foreign experts, dug through mounds of snow and earth and dogs scoured the site. Head of the rescue operation, Brigadier Saqib Malik, said although there were no signs that anyone had survived the disaster, rescue workers were determined to recover the victims. "Yes, the sense of loss is there, because they were colleagues you eat and sleep live with them very minute, so the sense of loss is there, but that has not effected or diminished their moral or will to get them out," he said. Malik added that Pakistani engineers have devised a special approach to recovery efforts. Earlier in the day Pakistan''s powerful army chief, General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani visited the site, and called for the peaceful resolution of the Himalayan glacier dispute with rival nuclear power India. Pakistan say that India began the conflict when its troops occupied the uninhabited Siachen Glacier in 1984. Pakistan sent in troops, and since then both armies have been facing each other on the glacier, which is located north of the disputed territory of Kashmir. Pakistan and India have fought three major wars since they both achieved independence from the British empire in 1947, two of them over Kashmir. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...