By Shabbir Mir IN The Express Tribune, Mar 14 GILGIT: A legislator who threatened to blow up the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) has been removed from his post after he refused to publicly apologise. Raziuddin, an independent lawmaker, who was appointed chairman of the public accounts committee (PAC) last year, was removed from his post after PAC members Bashir Ahmed, Yasmeen Nazar, Sheikh Nisar and Mutabiat Shah submitted a letter to the speaker, expressing no-confidence…
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By Shabbir Mir in the Express Tribune, Mar 14 GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan chapter of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamat (ASWJ) issued a strong warning to the government on Tuesday against changing the existing curriculum, saying it would trigger unending protests in the country. The reaction came after the process of changing the curriculum entered its final stage, as claimed by the ASWJ. “We demand immediate withdrawal of the decision being made to change the existing curriculum,”…
MANSEHRA: A 70-member delegation of elders and Ulema from Kohistan would visit the Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan in a couple of days to evolve a joint strategy to avert incidents like the Harban bus attack in which 16 Shia passengers were killed by gunmen wearing military uniforms. The selection of 70 elders and Ulema was made at a grand Jirga, which was also attended by District Coordination Officer (DCO) Aqil Badshah and District Police Officer…
By Riaz Ahmad in The Express Tribune PESHAWAR: At least five militant groups have been involved in violence in the capital city of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) where they are stoking sectarianism and targeting women, The Express Tribune has learnt. A senior police official claimed that the Mangal Bagh-led Lashkar-e-Islam, its Tirah-based rival outfit Ansarul Islam and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chapters in Darra Adam Khel, Mohmand and Bajuar tribal regions have been active in the city. “These…
MIRPUR: Agitated over water shortages, people took to the streets and stormed a tube-well here on Sunday. The situation emerged after the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) cut down supply of water in various residential sectors due to faults in man tube-wells. The residents raised slogans against the PHED and the district administration for failing to control the crisis. Ex-Councillor Shoaib Mir, who led the demonstration, said that despite the…
LONDON: Sardar Muhammad Saghir Khan Advocate, Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), has said that the right to decide the future status of the state entirely rests with the people of Jammu and Kashmir and this rights must be respected by all stakeholders. This is the first visit of any senior JKLF leader to Britain after the party’s leadership was expelled from the country following Indian diplomat Ravindra Mhatre’s murder case in February…
GILGIT/LAHORE: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Saturday that a large-scale operation would be launched in parts of Gilgit-Baltistan to maintain order in the region. Talking to the media, the minister said the operation would be launched by Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts. He said that five terrorists involved in the Kohistan bus shooting have been arrested by law enforcement agencies. Gunmen disguised in military uniform hauled 18 Shias off buses on February 28 and shot them dead…
ISLAMABAD: After volatile Balochistan, the situation in Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has turned into a volcano that could erupt at any time, exposing hundreds of locals to violence, hatred and death, Daily Times has learnt from reliable sources. At present a great deal of unrest that is being witnessed among the residents of GB representing various religious sects, including Deobandi, Shia, Sunni and Ismaili, could disrupt the law and order situation, triggering large-scale violence in the northern…
GILGIT, March 4: Punjab Rangers and Gilgit-Baltistan Scouts on Sunday recovered live rockets, light machine guns and other arms from two separate points of the city and arrested seven suspects. Separately, a scouts man and two civilians were injured in a firing incident, senior administration officials said. “GB Scouts raided a suspected house in Yadgar Mohallah and took into custody eight live rockets while in Amphary Punjab Rangers recovered two light machine guns, four SMGs,…
Islamabad: Extremely aggrieved over the killing of 18 innocent people in Dassu, the students of Gilgit-Baltistan who are residing in twin cities staged a sit-in cum protest rally from Aabpara Chowk to the National Press Club on Saturday. The students held placards and chanted slogans against the government for its alleged incompetence to provide security to innocent people travelling on the Karakorom Highway (KKH). The protesters also demanded that the alleged perpetrators be brought to…
ISLAMABAD: The Makran division of Balochistan has become free of loadshedding and there will be no power shortage in the area for next five years, thanks to another 35MW of electricity now being supplied by Iran. Pakistan was already getting 35MW of electricity from Iran, but after the increase in the capacity of the transmission lines, the power supply has been doubled to 70MW from Feb 26, a spokesman for the Ministry of Water and…