ISLAMABAD – Twelve-minister Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) caretaker cabinet took oath on Saturday. The oath taking ceremony was held at Gilgit-Baltistan House and Chief Minister Pir Karam Ali Shah administered oath to the caretaker ministers. Those who took oath included, Nasir Hussain and Mushtaq Ahmed advocate from Gilgit, Haji Sanaullah from Baltistan, Inayatullah Shimali and Basharatullah from Diamer, Haji Naimatullah from Bounji, Fauzia Saleem from Skardu, Zawar Qalb-e-Ali from Nagar, Abdul Jehan and Ali Murad advocate from…
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By Shahzad Anwar in The Express Tribune, January 25th, ISLAMABAD: Although national and international efforts are under way to curb illegal logging, local markets are flooded with timber from Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B), resulting in massive deforestation in the absence of proper oversight. Owing to the continuous cutting of banned species including pine, kail and deodar, forest cover in G-B has eroded more than 50 per cent over the last 20 years, said a top forest official.…
ISLAMABAD: The World Bank (WB) Board has accorded approval for financing the 108 MW Gulpur Hydropower Project to be located at Poonch River, District Kotli, AJK. A high-level delegation of the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the arm of the World Bank, met Finance Minister Ishaq Dar on Friday and had an in-depth exchange of views on various WB sponsored development projects, says a press release. Ishaq Dar lauded the WB Board’s decision regarding the Gulpur…