MUZAFFARABAD: The affected persons of the Neelum-Jhelum Hydroelectric Project (NJHEP) in Chattar Klass area on Tuesday blocked the Muzaffarabad-Rawalpindi Road for four hours near the main site of the power house to press for their demands. Placing tractors in the middle of the road and setting fire to tyres, protesters chanted slogans against the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda). “For the last four years, we have been demanding our rights and compensation…
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By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, October 30th, 2014. GILGIT: Progressive leader Baba Jan and two others were handed life imprisonment by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Gilgit in yet another case on Wednesday. The decision was read out by ATC No 1 judge Raja Shehbaz Khan, who had recently awarded life imprisonment to Jan and 11 others for ransacking police stations and torching government property in Hunza in 2011. In addition,…
MUZAFFARABAD: Growing contacts between Minister for Kashmir Affairs Chaudhry Barjees Tahir and the Peoples Party-led AJK government have served to create a gulf between him and his Muslim League-N, it has been learnt. The Azad Jammu and Kashmir chapter of ML-N has written a letter to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, asking him to replace Mr Tahir when the expected reshuffle of the federal cabinet takes place. Sources said when the minister came to…
BEIJING: Schools in China’s mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, where a series of attacks has left hundreds dead in recent months, said they would actively discourage religious practice at home, state-run media reported Wednesday. Principals at more than 2,000 kindergartens, primary schools and secondary schools in Kashgar, near China’s border with Pakistan, signed a pledge to “defend schools against the infiltration of religion”, according to a report by the Global Times, which is close to…