By Zafar Bhutta in The Express Tribune, May 14 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan government has prepared a $12.5 billion funding programme for Diamer Bhasha Dam with resources coming from internal and external sources including the Asian Development Bank, the United States and Islamic Development Bank, seemingly dealing a blow to India’s attempts to block foreign financing for what it calls a controversial project. According to reports, the Indian lobby in Washington has been actively campaigning against…
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By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, May 14 GILGIT: The president of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) chapter Hafizur Rehman seems to have become the de facto chief minister (CM) following his party’s landslide victory in the general polls. Currently, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is the ruling party in G-B’s coalition government, with Mehdi Shah as the CM and Pir Karam Ali Shah as governor. A change at the centre is bound to…