G-B govt to run free boat service across Attabad lake By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, Dec 2 GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) government has launched a free winter boat service for passengers crossing the Attabad Lake. Shehzad Ahmad, a senior government official, said the decision was taken in view of difficulties that passengers are facing trying to cross the 23-kilometre-long lake in the winter, when temperatures plummet below -15 degrees centigrade in the Hunza…
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Target: Jamaat Ali Shah: By Khaled Ahmed in The Express Tribune, Dec 2 The writer is a director at the South Asia Free Media Association, Lahore Jamaat Ali Shah was Pakistan’s Indus Waters Commissioner with a long tenure because he had a brilliant record as his country’s watchdog over India’s actions under the Indus Waters Treaty (1960). Then, some people thought he was in cahoots with the Indians. The state went for him. See the…