GILGIT, Dec 30: The Khunjerab border, which links Pakistan with neighbouring China, is closed on Thursday. Due to heavy snowfall, the border would remain closed for four months. Officials say that it would reopen in May. “The border is closed due to heavy snowfall from Jan 1 to May 1 every year. However, postal services vehicles would be allowed in between the two countries,” an official said. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/khunjerab-border-closes-today-129
Posts published in “Day: December 31, 2009”
By Maqbool Malik Submitted in The Nation, Dec 31 ISLAMABAD – Naheed Khan, former MNA and political secretary to the assassinated PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, is unlikely to accept party offer for the slot of the first governor of Gilgit-Baltistan. “We don’t need any office. What we expect from the party leadership is to consider our proposals seriously which we have floated for the betterment of the party,” Senator Dr Safdar Abbasi, husband of Naheed…
By Khawar Ghumman in the Dawn, Dec 31 ISLAMABAD, Dec 30: The newly-elected chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has a unique privilege to have a house without an opposition leader. To the dismay of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas, it was informed on Wednesday that under the current rules, there was no provision of opposition leader in the house. When inquired, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad informed…