ISLAMABAD: Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa (K-P) government fears that the powers supporting Dr Shakeel Afridi – who allegedly ran a fake vaccination campaign at the behest of the CIA to track down Osama Bin Laden – may try to rescue or kill him through a ‘covert or overt operation’. Quoting intelligence reports, the K-P government has informed the federal government that there is a severe danger surrounding Dr Afridi, who is currently facing imprisonment under Frontier Crimes…
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MUZAFFARABAD – The AJK government has decided to form a high level task force headed by the Finance Secretary to formulate and implement enforcement strategies to plug leakages of revenue from the cigarette manufacturing units located in the region. Latif Akbar, Finance Minister, AJK, said this while speaking at a policy dialogue held in Muzaffarabad on illicit trade in tobacco sector of AJK. He said that in order to effectively improve government revenue collection there…
GILGIT: In Gilgit-Baltistan, the right man for the job is a woman. Tahira Yasub became the first woman superintendent in the region earlier this week. She was given her ranks by the inspector general and former chief minister Mehdi Shah in a ceremony on Thursday. “I am thankful to the government,” Yasub told The Express Tribune during a brief chat on Friday. A graduate in international relations from Karakoram International University, she has…
GILGIT: Former Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) chief minister Syed Mehdi Shah blamed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) central government for adding to the woes of G-B since coming into power last year. “Sharif’s administration added to our problems,” alleged Shah while addressing a news conference at Gilgit Press Club on Thursday. He claimed the region was constantly ignored and deprived of legislative and economic cover. “Even the national airline resorted to foul play, what to talk of other…
Indian Kashmir refugee allowed to contest poll : report in The Express Tribune, December 13th, 2014.
MUZAFFARABAD: A full-court bench of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Muhammad Azam Khan gave a verdict in favour of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Secretary General Shah Ghulam Qadir on Friday allowing him to contest elections from the Neelum Valley. The court decision has opened the doors for all refugees from Indian Kashmir settled in Pakistan to contest elections in any constituency of AJK. The apex court gave…
MUZAFFARABAD: Both the treasury and opposition benches in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly unanimously rejected on Thursday the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly’s resolution seeking to become province of Pakistan. If Gilgit-Baltistan becomes a province of Pakistan, it would be counterproductive for the Kashmir cause, the AJK assembly echoed. Both Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir are parts of a disputed territory and the people have to decide their fate under the UN resolutions, the…