Zalzala Khan
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Zalzala Khan (Urdu: زلزلہ خان ) i.e Earthquake Khan is the poster child of 2005 Pakistan earthquake. On October 8, 2005 a boy was born in Mansehra just few moments before the devastating earthquake. The people of his village have nicknamed him "Zalzala Khan".
His mother gave birth just moments before their home collapsed in the earthquake that ended more than 73,000 lives in Pakistan, and 1,500 in Indian-occupied Kashmir, and rendered over three million people destitute. Muhammad Sajid, the father, described how he and a midwife had carried the mother and the child outside, with the roof falling, walls collapsing and ground shaking. “We named our son, Shahabuddin, a few days after the quake but the villagers like to call him ‘Zalzala Khan’, as they say his birth on that terrible day was an omen from God that life would go on,” Sajid said.
