GILGIT: The five-member interim cabinet of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) has been announced with representatives belonging to various areas of the region. However, it has met criticism from several quarters. The announcement was made Thursday night after Caretaker Chief Minister Sher Jehan Mir met Federal Minister for G-B and Kashmir Affairs Birjis Tahir in Islamabad. “A notification about the appointment has also been issued,” a G-B government official told The Express Tribune on Friday. Members of the…
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BEIJING: China is investigating one of its top spy chiefs for corruption, according to the ruling Communist Party’s anti-graft watchdog, signalling that the boldest crackdown on corruption in decades has spilled over into its powerful intelligence apparatus. Ma Jian, a vice minister at China’s Ministry of State Security, is the most senior security official to be investigated since former domestic security tsar Zhou Yongkang was ensnared in a graft scandal last July. The investigation into…