GILGIT, Dec 21: The administration of Gilgit-Baltistan has been instructed to get itself prepared to hold local government elections in June, an official source disclosed. The source said that though schedule of elections was yet to be chalked out but it was more likely to be announced for June. It is pertinent to note here that local governments had been dissolved in October 2009 and there was silence as to when new elections would be…
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By Khaleeq Kiani in The Dawn, Dec 22 ISLAMABAD: The federal government was shocked on Monday over the unfolding of a diplomatic fiasco arising out of a controversy between the Azad Kashmir government and state-owned companies of the South Korea over the $800 million hydropower project on River Jhelum. Two federal ministries took pains on Monday to get themselves absolved of the responsibility and passed the blame on to the bureaucracy in Azad Kashmir for…
ISLAMABAD (APP) – Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Syed Mehdi Shah Monday said the appointment of new Governor and Cabinet of the area to run the govt affairs would be announced within next ten days. “We commend President Asif Ali Zardari’s announcement that the new Governor of the area would be a local person who could deliver for prosperity and betterment of the people,” he said while talking to mediamen during his visit to the Peoples Secretariat,…
MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 21: AJK President Raja Zulqarnain Khan here on Monday announced that two more full-fledged universities would be established in the region in near future to create maximum opportunities of acquiring higher education. “I would like to see the upgradation of Rawalakot and Kotli campuses as independent universities in near future. We should start working in this direction so that we are able to establish at least two more universities during the next five…