The writer is an assistant professor, St Josephs College, Bangalore. OVER the last few months, there have been multiple attacks carried out by Kashmiri rebels on the Indian armed forces. Indian national dailies and electronic channels are flashing headlines such as ‘re-emergence of militancy in the Valley’ and ‘disturbance of peace’. The words ‘re-emergence’ and ‘peace’ need considerable reflection. The Indian state has not been able to suppress the movement through its coercive apparatus, but…
Posts published in July 2013
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, GILGIT: If the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is not reorganised in time, its fate in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) will not be any different from the rest of Pakistan after the May 11 general elections, said senior leader Amjad Hussain. The general elections saw PPP shrinking from a national party to a regional party as it could only win from its stronghold, Sindh, that too not without being accused of…
FAISALABAD: Speakers at a seminar have said that Pakistan is wasting 40MAF water annually by dumping it back to the sea because of lack of reservoirs. The seminar on environmental awareness was organised by the Government College University Faisalabad’s Department of Environmental Sciences in collaboration with the Punjab Youth Council and an NGO here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion, acting Vice-Chancellor and Faculty of Science and Technology Dean Dr Naureen Aziz Qureshi said that…
By TARIQ NAQASH TARIQ in Dawn, July 3 MUZAFFARABAD, July 02: After making heated speeches in favour of austerity in the Azad Jammu Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly (LA), three opposition lawmakers have become part of a 6-member parliamentary delegation which will be on a week-long study tour to the United States and Canada. Two of the opposition lawmakers are from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) while one is from the Muslim Conference (MC). According to…
GILGIT: Security forces on Tuesday claimed to have apprehended another suspect in connection to the killing foreign tourists in Diamer on June 23. His arrest came a day after another suspect, a worker of Water and Power Department, was caught from Chilas. The suspect is member of a 16-memebr terrorist gang allegedly involved in the Diamer attack. He was arrested while he was on duty. Security forces have so far arrested three suspects and all…
MUZAFFARABAD: While the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) government finds itself in financial woes to meet its day-to-day expenditures, a six- member delegation of AJK Legislative Assembly is planning a week-long visit to USA and Canada. It has been learnt that the visit will cost Rs10 million to the exchequer. A daily allowance of 15 to 20 per cent will also be given to each visiting member from taxpayers’ money. According to a notification, a…
By Peer Muhammad & Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, July 1 ISLAMABAD: Gilgit police on Sunday claimed a major breakthrough in the Nanga Parbat shootings after it arrested one of the 16 men believed to be involved in the killing of 10 foreign tourists and their cook on the night of June 21. Deputy Inspector General Police (DIG) Ali Sher, who is leading the investigation, told The Express Tribune via telephone that police raided…