Posts published in “Day: February 17, 2010”

MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 16: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has taken strong exception to the alleged substandard construction of an important artery by the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), and has decided to take up the matter with the National Highway Authority (NHA). The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held here on Tuesday to review the progress in communications sector. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider and attended among…

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwar Mansoor told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it had the jurisdiction to rule on a dispute relating to the appointment of the AJK chief justice. In July last year, his predecessor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa had taken a diametrically opposed view before the apex court that it lacked jurisdiction to decide matters relating to the appointment of AJK judges because it was a sovereign state having its own president, prime…

By Zulfiqar Ali Khan in The Dawn, Feb 17 HUNZA, Feb 16: Hundreds of people, including students and patients, stranded in Gojal valley and Hunza have expressed concern over the condition of boats provided by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) for ferrying them between the two landslide-affected areas. Over 500 people stranded in Gojal and Hunza due to the blockade of Karakoram Highway (KKH) by a lake formed on Hunza River after the January…

MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 16: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government has taken strong exception to the alleged substandard construction of an important artery by the Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), and has decided to take up the matter with the National Highway Authority (NHA). The decision was taken at a high-level meeting held here on Tuesday to review the progress in communications sector. The meeting was chaired by Prime Minister Raja Farooq Haider and attended among…

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwar Mansoor told the Supreme Court on Tuesday that it had the jurisdiction to rule on a dispute relating to the appointment of the AJK chief justice. In July last year, his predecessor Sardar Latif Khan Khosa had taken a diametrically opposed view before the apex court that it lacked jurisdiction to decide matters relating to the appointment of AJK judges because it was a sovereign state having its own president, prime…