MUZAFFARABAD: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) forest department officials foiled a bid to smuggle medicinal herb in Pataykha, some 20 kilometres from Muzaffarabad on Thursday. Four alleged smugglers were arrested with a medicinal herb, known locally as Tripattra, en route from Neelum Valley to Muzaffarabad. The herb reportedly fetches millions of rupees when sold in the black market. District Forest Officer (DFO) Khawaja Manzoor, while sharing details with The Express Tribune, revealed that authorities…
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By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, July 25th, 2014. GILGIT: According to an aid worker who just returned from the flood-hit Darel Valley, the survivors are living their worst nightmare, a life without food or shelter. “There are more than 60 families who have nothing to eat at the moment as their houses were wiped out by the flood,” said Tahir Rana on Thursday, a day after he visited the valley’s four villages: Gayal,…
Over Rs400m scam uncovered in AJK hydropower project By Zafar Bhutta in The Express Tribune, July 26th, 2014. ISLAMABAD: The minister in charge of Power Development Organisation (PDO), Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) has alleged that the organisation’s managing director extended favour to a Chinese company in the award of multi-billion-dollar 48-megawatt Jaggran-2 hydropower project. The minister in charge, Chaudhry Mohammad Yasin, said he had received information that the managing director was involved in committing…