The earth-shattering earthquake of 2005 was a day that has been absolutely unforgettable to the people of Pakistan.

13 years later, Pakistanis all over Twitter have been recalling the day that caused damage to our country and it’s souls.

One man, in particular, is recalling his own experience as a volunteer, the day after the quake hit.

Muhammad Rabeel, an Instrument Engineer in Abu Dhabi let us in on his experience and how it affected him.

“The tragedy I have witnessed is still fresh like this happened just yesterday…”

“We went from Lahore with a Medical team consisting of volunteer doctors, I was in a technical team in case they needed help for their mobile medical equipment etc. We reached Muzaffar Abad the next evening of the Earth Quake. We settled near an army Field medical camp as suggested by a Medical team of an army camp as this would be a secure place for female doctors who were with us. We saw a US Helicopter bringing injured people from remote areas to the Army’s medical camp, then we started receiving our injured locals.”

“People were so in shock that no one knew what has happened even after 24 hours passed, injuries were so severe that most of our doctors referred them to big hospitals in Punjab.”

“We treated around 300 people the whole night, after-shocks were still coming, and we were frightened. We did our sehri and then started again, half day worked the same way, then gave our camp supplies to an Army medical camp, and some equipment to a remote camp of Alkhidmat Foundation of Jamate Islami and some medicine to Jamat al dawah’s medical camp as they had a huge number of injured people with them under treatment.”

“We met an old woman whose only son was in the army and his pregnant wife and his mother were the only ones in the house, and the house had fallen and everything was under rubble.”

“We immediately went with that old woman on top of a mountain and met the wife of the soldier who could not travel downhill because of her condition. Our doctor checked her up, meanwhile, we set up a tent for them and gave some blankets and food supplies for a few days, and took contact details of her husband to try to contact him and tell him of their condition. Unfortunately, we had to leave as it was very cold and we were tired and everyone was fasting. So we went to the city and saw the destruction. Everything was destroyed, we were continuously crying many times a day while walking. Whole villages were slipped from the mountains into valleys as no sign of them was left…”

Muhammad went on to say, “One good thing we noticed was the Army, Alkhidmat foundation, and Jamat al dawah and Al Rasheed trust volunteers were everywhere. Pulling dead bodies and injured from rubble it was carnage, those who weren’t there can’t imagine how large the number of dead bodies and injured were being pulled out from destruction. We were treating some on spot and shifting critical patients to nearby field hospitals since roads were destroyed. We’d have two people pick up an injured person on their shoulders and bring them back.”