by Ansar Abbasi in The News, May 31 ISLAMABAD: After Kalabagh, the smooth and early construction of the promised Diamer-Bhasha Dam (DBD), which would produce 4,500MW electricity and store 8,000,000 acres feet of water, is being endangered both by the World Bank and the present chairman of Wapda. An official note recently circulated by former chairman Wapda and presently adviser to the Ministry of Water and Power on DBD, Shakil Durrani, to all concerned reveals…
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The writer retired as professor of physics from Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad On the evening of May 13, an assassin stepped out of a car that had just driven to the doorstep of Sardar Arif Shahid’s residence in Rawalpindi. He waited for the 62-year-old Kashmiri leader to arrive. After pumping four bullets into him, the killer calmly got back into the car and was whisked away. A major Kashmiri nationalist leader, chairman of the All Parties…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, May 31 GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) government has ordered an inquiry into incidents of back-to-back fatalities of mothers and newborns in G-B’s public hospitals. The first incident was reported on May 23 when a mother and her newborn died during labour at the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH), Gilgit’s largest government hospital. The deceased belonged to Nagar, a valley in Hunza Nagar district. In another similar incident, a young…
By Peer Muhammad in The Express Tribune, May 31 ISLAMABAD: A constitutional issue seems to have emerged regarding the procedure for the removal of the governor of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), as the Gilgit-Baltistan Empowerment and Self Governance Order-2009 is totally silent in this regard. The question is: should President Asif Zardari follow the recommendation of the upcoming prime minister and replace the PPP-affiliated governor of the GB territory with a PML-N nominee? The Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz…