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Posts published in “Day: July 18, 2012

Dilapidated chairlifts: Risky routes for option-less travellers

The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2012. GILGIT: To travel on a chairlift across the remote valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) is not the safest option but the only one. Scores of people use the facility to cross rivers, even if it spells risk. Only two days back, eight people drowned in a river in Gaise valley, after the rope holding the chairlift snapped, while it was in the middle of the river. None of the bodies…

India, Pak to talk cross-LoC trade: By Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Senior officials from Pakistan and India will meet this week to discuss confidence building measures that seek to remove hurdles in travel and trade across the Line of Control (LoC). A foreign ministry spokesperson said that the meeting of the Pakistan-India Working Group on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), regarding the longstanding Kashmir dispute, will be held in Islamabad on July 19. The Pakistani delegation will be headed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General…

Pakistan decides not to move ICA against Nimo Bazgo project

By Zeeshan Javaid in the Daily Times, July 18 ISLAMABAD: The federal government had decided not to file a lawsuit in the Permanent Court of Arbitration-International Court of Arbitration (PCA-ICA) in Hague regarding its concerns and grievances over the controversial 45MW Nimoo Bazgo hydroelectric power project, sources in the water sector informed Daily Times on Tuesday. Regarding the 45MW controversial Nimoo Bazgo project on River Indus, Pakistani authorities were likely to lose the case before…

Dilapidated chairlifts: Risky routes for option-less travellers

The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2012. GILGIT: To travel on a chairlift across the remote valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) is not the safest option but the only one. Scores of people use the facility to cross rivers, even if it spells risk. Only two days back, eight people drowned in a river in Gaise valley, after the rope holding the chairlift snapped, while it was in the middle of the river. None of the bodies…

India, Pak to talk cross-LoC trade: By Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, July 18th, 2012

ISLAMABAD: Senior officials from Pakistan and India will meet this week to discuss confidence building measures that seek to remove hurdles in travel and trade across the Line of Control (LoC). A foreign ministry spokesperson said that the meeting of the Pakistan-India Working Group on Confidence Building Measures (CBMs), regarding the longstanding Kashmir dispute, will be held in Islamabad on July 19. The Pakistani delegation will be headed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General…

Pakistan decides not to move ICA against Nimo Bazgo project

By Zeeshan Javaid in the Daily Times, July 18 ISLAMABAD: The federal government had decided not to file a lawsuit in the Permanent Court of Arbitration-International Court of Arbitration (PCA-ICA) in Hague regarding its concerns and grievances over the controversial 45MW Nimoo Bazgo hydroelectric power project, sources in the water sector informed Daily Times on Tuesday. Regarding the 45MW controversial Nimoo Bazgo project on River Indus, Pakistani authorities were likely to lose the case before…