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WB team listens to people affected by Dasu dam project : Dawn, November 14th, 2014

  MANSEHRA: A delegation of the World Bank visited Kohistan on Thursday and met with the people being affected by Dasu hydropower project in an attempt to settle the dispute over land price between the landowners and Wapda.   The construction work of the dam was suspended a couple of months ago after the landowners and affected people refused to give their land on prices fixed by the district revenue department and forcibly got the…

Killing of minor boy sparks protest in Gilgit: report in Dawn, November 14th, 2014

GILGIT: The killing of eight-year-old boy student after alleged sexual assault sparked a big protest in Gilgit city on Thursday.   A large number of boy and girl students from different schools in Gilgit, classmates of the victim, traders and workers of political and religious parties of the region held a protest demonstration at Hunza Chowk by blocking the main road of the city. They chanted slogans against the killing of class-I student allegedly by…

G-B lawmakers threaten poll boycott: By Shabbir Mir   in The Express Tribune, November 14th, 2014.

GILGIT: Lawmakers in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) have threatened to boycott polls scheduled for next year if a non-local is appointed as the chief election commissioner (CEC) in the region.   “We may boycott elections if the election commissioner is an ‘imported’ one,” Law Minister Ali Madad Sher told reporters at the legislative assembly’s premises on Thursday. “We firmly believe that the person should be from G-B as we have competent people for the job,” he said.…

The Chinese puzzle: op-ed byM A Niazi  in the Nation, November 14, 2014

  The writer, is executive editor of The Nation Apart from the many MoUs signed, apparently Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif’s trip to China merely undid the damage caused by the PTI sit-in, which prevented the Chinese President from visiting Islamabad. Actually, it also played a part in the ongoing attempt by the US to ‘contain’ China. The US views Pakistan as in the Chinese camp. That means that Pakistan is not as firmly in…

The PM’s China visit: by Sakib Sherani in dawn, Nov 14

  The writer is a former economic adviser to government, and currently heads a macroeconomic consultancy based in Islamabad. The prime minister’s recent visit to China yielded a rich harvest of agreements and contracts between the two sides. The bulk of these agreements centred on ‘investment’ by Chinese companies in energy projects in Pakistan. Not surprisingly, the government’s PR team went into overdrive extolling how the agreements would be a “game-changer” for the country.  …

WB team listens to people affected by Dasu dam project : Dawn, November 14th, 2014

MANSEHRA: A delegation of the World Bank visited Kohistan on Thursday and met with the people being affected by Dasu hydropower project in an attempt to settle the dispute over land price between the landowners and Wapda.   The construction work of the dam was suspended a couple of months ago after the landowners and affected people refused to give their land on prices fixed by the district revenue department and forcibly got the work…

G-B lawmakers threaten poll boycott: By Shabbir Mir   in The Express Tribune, November 14th, 2014.

GILGIT: Lawmakers in Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) have threatened to boycott polls scheduled for next year if a non-local is appointed as the chief election commissioner (CEC) in the region.   “We may boycott elections if the election commissioner is an ‘imported’ one,” Law Minister Ali Madad Sher told reporters at the legislative assembly’s premises on Thursday. “We firmly believe that the person should be from G-B as we have competent people for the job,” he said.…