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Posts published in “Day: March 9, 2013

Security on KKH to be enhanced

GILGIT, March 8: The Gilgit-Baltistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa governments have agreed on framing new standard operating procedure for ensuring security of travellers on Karakuram Highway, officials informed here on Friday. “Both sides have agreed to evolve a new mechanism to provide security to people travelling on the KKH,” Diamer district Magistrate Mohammad Ajmal Bhatti told Dawn. He said senior officials of the GB and KP governments held a meeting on the issue and considered…

Act of ‘disrespect’: Wrong map earns USAID heap of scorn

By Owais Jafri in The Express Tribune, Mar 9 MULTAN:  The projection of a wrong map of Pakistan by USAID officials during an event at the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) office has provoked much anger, both among Mepco engineers and the citizens of Multan. During a presentation at the inauguration of a planning and engineering computer centre at the Mepco office on Thursday, USAID officials projected a map which showed Azad Jammu and Kashmir…