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Posts published in “Day: September 6, 2012

Mobile in Kashmir: op-ed by F.S.Aijazuddin in Dawn, Sept 6

The writer is an author. PAKISTAN is fortunate that Dr Shashi Tharoor, the newest Icarus in the Indian National Congress, never fulfilled his ambition to become the next UN secretary general. He would have used the UN to resolve the problem of Jammu & Kashmir in less time than it took to create it. Dr Tharoor has been endowed with all the boons his divinities could have bestowed on any Indian mortal: debonair good looks,…

GBLA wants ‘misuse’ of funds investigated

GILGIT, Sept 5: Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly members on Wednesday complained of irregularities in the internal security, development and flood protection expenditure and demanded inquiry into them. During an assembly session chaired by Speaker Wazir Baig, they also expressed concern about deteriorating law and order situation in the region and blamed the federal government for it. Law minister Wazir Shakil complained that the centre didn’t help Gilgit-Baltistan manage its financial and administrative affairs and that capable…