ISLAMABAD, Sept 24 : The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AKJ) Council presented its Rs9.59 billion budget for the year 2012-13, here Monday, and the major expenditure amounting to Rs6.18 billion is the disbursement of income tax to AJK Government, while the development projects of AJK Council for current fiscal year is Rs1.91 billion. The Council budget was presented by Chaudhry Muhammad Mehboob, member AJK Council in the 47th session of the AJK Council, presided by…
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The writer is a resident of Gilgit-Baltistan and currently is a Fulbright-Humphrey Fellow at the Protection Project of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC. NESTLED in the northern Karakoram-Himalayan region of the subcontinent, Gilgit and Baltistan remained a strategic part of Dogra-ruled Jammu and Kashmir prior to the territory’s self-generated independence in 1947-48. When a local group led by Col Hassan Khan of Kashmir’s Fourth Regiment in Gilgit revolted against Maharaja Hari Singh, the…
WRITING in the New York Times in August 2010, journalist Selig Harrison had said Pakistan was “handing over” Gilgit-Baltistan — where he discovered “an influx” of Chinese soldiers — to China. In the story headlined ‘China’s discreet hold on Pakistan’s northern borderlands’, Mr Harrison had reported “a quiet geopolitical crisis” in Gilgit-Baltistan where “Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic” territory to Beijing. Harrison also discovered “22 tunnels” which were barred to…
NEW YORK: President Azad Jammu and Kashmir Sardar Yaqoob Khan was detained at the John F Kennedy International Airport after he landed in the city on Sunday. Sources said that as Sardar Yaqoob arrived in New York to attend the session of United Nations General Assembly, he was detained for two hours at the JFK airport by the immigration authorities and his close aide was still under detention at the airport. The incident has not…