GILGIT: The extended power outages in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) are a violation of basic human rights, said the local chapter of International Human Rights Observer (IHRO) on Sunday. The organisation called for widespread protests to depose “the corrupt and inept officials responsible for the power mess”. In a press release, the IHRO urged all citizens to demand that the government hand over the affairs of the water and power departments to a foreign company capable of…
Posts published in “Day: March 26, 2012”
By AH Nizami in The Express Tribune, Mar 26 MIRPUR: Buses snaking around mountainside roads, skidding off, tumbling down and crashing, followed by fatalities reported in the news. Such a sequence has been alarmingly frequent in Azad Jammu and Kashmir of late. It seems this is no coincidence. Poor driving, sharp turns and dilapidated vehicles and roads are all partially to blame. But another major stumbling block to safe travel has been the transport mafia,…