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Posts published in “Day: August 10, 2012

Mangla Dam raising project: Affected families take to the streets, stage sit-in

MIRPUR: Hundreds of people affected by the raising of Mangla Dam Project staged protests on Thursday after the government failed to give a schedule for completion of their rehabilitation. They staged a sit-in outside the office of Mangla Dam Resettlement Organisation (MDRO) and said they will not let the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) fill the dam to its highest level of 1,242 feet unless the 100,000 affected people are shifted to alternative residential…

Attempt on CJ’s life: Lawyers boycott court proceedings against police inaction

MIRPUR:  Lawyers staged a protest demonstration outside the district courts on Thursday against the failure of the police in nabbing the men who attempted to murder Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) High Court Chief Justice Ghulam Mustafa Mughal. Brandishing black bands on their arms, the lawyers boycotted duties and accused the police of being inefficient for failing to arrest the accused even after a lapse of over nine months. They warned of widespread protests across…