GILGIT: A civil court has issued an advertisement, expected to appear in Tuesday’s (today) newspapers, requesting Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Assembly Speaker Wazir Baig to appear before the court and respond to a case filed against him. The ad, issued by civil court judge Justice Luqman Hakeen, claims Baig did not appear before the court despite being repeatedly summoned for a hearing into a petition filed by Balawaristan National Front (BNF) Chairman Mohammad Rafiq against him. Baig…
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By Shabbir Mir in Express Tribune, May 21 GILGIT: Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Chief Minster (CM) Mehdi Shah on Monday accused former chief secretary Sajjad Hotiana of being a “Facebook hero”, claiming the latter tried to instigate lawmakers against him. “He tried to turn my colleagues against me and also tried to incite me against them by saying they were corrupt,” Shah said in the G-B Assembly, referring to Hotiana who was recently transferred on the former’s…
By Shabbir Mir in Express Tribune, May 21 GILGIT / LAHORE: Monday was a day of opposite reactions: While President Asif Ali Zardari congratulated Samina Baig and her brother Mirza Ali, the two young mountaineers who successfully scaled the world’s highest peak, lawmakers in the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly session remained strangely mum over the achievement. In a statement released by the President’s Secretariat on Monday, President Zardari said Baig made the entire nation proud by becoming…