It should have been clear by now to authorities involved in conservation in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) that efforts to save endangered species there are failing. In the second incident in just over three months, another leopard was shot dead by villagers in the Khadorda Village near the town of Bhimber. A similar incident involving the killing of a leopard took place in May this year. There have also been other cases before this,…
Posts published in “Day: August 29, 2012”
Kiran Nazish is a journalist and activist based in Pakistan. Last year, human rights activist Baba Jan Hunzai spoke out as an advocate for the former residents of Hunza Valley, whose homes were swept away by the lake formed after a 2010 land slide blocked the flow of the Hunza River. Named the Attabad Lake, it displaced over 1,000 people who lost their homes, livelihoods and access to the world. When these displacements did not…
SKARDU: Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday again made it clear that criminals had been running towards Gilgit-Baltistan as they feared military operation in Waziristan. Talking to media men here, the interior minister said that a targeted operation would soon be launched against terrorists in Darel area of Gilgit-Baltistan. Malik added that militants were being monitored via satellite in this area. Criminals of Waziristan had been running towards Gilgit-Baltistan, Malik said and added that he…
SKARDU, Aug 28: The police on Tuesday resorted to baton charge to disperse students, who were protesting at the airport here against unavailability of flights to Islamabad. Several protesters, including two local journalists, who were covering the event, were injured. The injured were shifted to DHQ hospital The students resorted to protest after the federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik, who arrived here on Monday and was also at the airport during the protest, failed to…