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Posts published in “Day: May 7, 2012

‘G-B should be made a secular state’: report in The ExpressTribune, May 7

Rawalpindi: A legislator and nationalist leader has proposed that Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) should be made a secular and independent state. Chief of his own faction of Balawaristan National Front (BNF), Nawaz Khan Naji, stated this while addressing a gathering of young party members of BNF in Rawalpindi on Sunday, said a press release issued by the organisers. Naji said that injustice, nepotism, corruption and interference of clerics in the administrative affairs of G-B are responsible for…

China group interested in AJK power projects: By Khaleeq Kiani in Dawn, May 7

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking a push for early mobilisation of Chinese contractors to start construction of 1,100MW Kohala Hydropower Project (KHP) and increased financial support for under-construction 969MW Neelum Jhelum Hydropower Project (NJHP). Sources said the Chinese contractors CWE – a subsidiary of Three Gorges Dam – had been showing less interest in going ahead with the $2.2 billion Kohala project and dilly-dallying on mobilising its machinery and workforce to start it even though the…