By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, August 4th,2014. GILGIT: Police rounded up over three dozen people and booked many others in Ghanche district of Baltistan on Sunday after clashes between two groups left dozens injured. The fighting erupted a day after Eidul Fitr between followers of the Sofia and Imamia groups of the Nurbakhshiya sect, bringing life to a standstill in the valley. The Nurbakhshiyas are a Sufic order. According to locals, more than…
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MUZAFFARABAD: Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Prime Minister Chaudhry Abdul Majeed on Friday said that the future of Pakistan and AJK hinged on democracy and those trying to subvert the system did not want to see a strong and stable Pakistan. It’s heartening that Pakistans two major political parties – PPP and PML-N – were sticking to the Charter of Democracy (CoD) which in turn was thwarting the designs of anti-democracy elements, he maintained while…
By Khalid Hasnain in Dawn, Aug 2nd , 2014 LAHORE: A World Bank’s implementation mission arrived here on Friday to finalise modalities of loan and the action plan for starting civil works on the 4,320MW Dasu Hydropower Project (DHP). In a month-long visit to Pakistan, the 10-member mission will hold a series of meetings with senior officials of the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) and the Ministry of Water and Power, Dawn has learnt.…