By Peer Muhammad in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2015. ISLAMABAD: A funding crunch will keep the Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project unfinished this year, forcing officials to treat 2016 as the target year for completion. This was stated by project director Neelum-Jhelum hydropower project Lt Gen (retd) Muhammad Zubair, who was giving a briefing to the Senate standing committee on Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) on Tuesday. Zubair said the project has been delayed due to…
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ISLAMABAD: Former president of Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) Asma Jehangir has said that there is no mention of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) in the 21st Constitutional Amendment, and therefore the formation of military courts in GB is illegal and unconstitutional. She asked if the 342 parliamentarians could not sustain the pressure with regard to formation of the military courts, how the 17 judges of the Supreme Court could do the same.Talking to journalists on the premises…