A month after a landslide in Upper Hunza killed 20 people and left 1,500 others homeless, the fate of the victims has largely been forgotten. Their suffering is far from over. The Gojal tehsil remains cut off from the rest of the country, since the river was dammed as a result of debris tumbling into it after the landslide and has risen into a lake blocking the Karakorum Highway. About 75 households trapped beyond this…
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ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: City police mounted intelligence and vigilance around the Kashmir House to arrest the people, including two ministers of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, nominated in a murder case, sources told Dawn. According to the sources, a team of police officials had been deployed around the house and checkposts also established to arrest the accused the moment they would come out from the building. However, chance of their presence there is meagre, the sources…
QUETTA, Feb 9: The community of Hindus in Quetta has called upon the Balochistan government to curb the rising cases of kidnapping for ransom and robbery being perpetrated against its members. Addressing a press conference on Tuesday with Minorities Minister Basant Lal Gulshan, a leader of Quetta Hindu Panchayat, Shyam Kumar, said the deteriorating law and order situation had served to heighten the vulnerability of the community. He said the Hindus were a peace loving…