GILGIT: Two people were killed and four others injured when law-enforcement personnel opened fire on a procession taken out in Chilas on Thursday to demand acceptance of their demands before the beginning of work on the Diamer-Bhasha Dam. According to witnesses and police, the protesters marched towards Wapda Colony and pelted the offices of Water and Power Development Authority with stones when police fired teargas shells. In the meantime, Frontier Corps personnel opened fire, killing…
Posts published in February 2010
MUZAFFARABAD, Feb 17: In a major bureaucratic reshuffle, the AJK government has made long due transfers and postings of senior government officials, mainly the secretaries, including the most powerful secretary Services and General Administration Department (S&GAD) after six years. According to a notification issued here on Wednesday, secretary law justice and parliamentary affairs Farhat Ali Mir was appointed secretary S&GAD and food replacing Fayyaz Akhtar Chaudhry. Mr Chaudhry who is younger brother of AJK Supreme…
By Masood Rehman ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwar Mansoor told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that a meeting of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Council would be convened to resolve the “judicial crisis” in AJK. A three-member Supreme Court bench of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Ghulam Rabbani was hearing identical petitions against the appointment of the AJK chief justice. Appearing on notice, Attorney General Mansoor asked the court…
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…
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…
The Daily Times, Feb 16 LAHORE: Top terrorist commander Ilyas Kashmiri, whose 313 Brigade is an operational arm of the al Qaeda, has vowed to continue attacks across India until the Indian Army leaves Indian-held Kashmir and gives the Kashmiris their right to self-determination. In the message sent to Asia Times Online, early on Monday – shortly after the deadly weekend bombing of the German Bakery in the western Indian city of Pune – Kashmiri…
AZAD Kashmir was created within two months of Pakistan’s independence with high expectations. Nestled in the mountainous western region that abuts the vale of Kashmir, it forms an archer’s bow that is about 100 miles long and about 20-40 miles wide. The Pakistani security elite hoped that an arrow fired from the bow would bring about the instant liberation of the vale of Kashmir from Indian occupation. The first arrow was fired almost within days…