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Posts published in “Day: February 4, 2015

Gilgit-Baltistan: paradise in peril: op-ed by Zeeba T Hashmi in daily times, Feb 4, 2015

The writer is a freelance columnist It was on January 4, 2010 when a massive landslide hit Attabad Lake, submerging three villages in Gojal and North Gilgit, blocking the Hunza River and forming a 23 km lake that claimed 19 lives and rendered thousands of people landless, without food and shelter. It was for the rights of these people that Baba Jan, a progressive chairperson of the youth forum and member of the central executive…

Alliance in G-B gives seven-day ultimatum to end outages

By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, Feb 3rd, 2015. GILGIT: Awami Action Committee (AAC), an alliance of 23 parties in Gilgit-Baltistan, has given the government a seven-day ultimatum to resolve G-B’s power crisis. “If the government turns a blind eye to our demand, we will paralyse life in the entire region,” warned AAC Chairman Advocate Ehsan Ali while speaking to The Express Tribune on Monday. “Our natural resources remain untapped while we suffer due…

Two weeks on: Police clueless about missing Skardu students

By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, February 4th, 2015. GILGIT: Police still have no clues as to the whereabouts of two college students who disappeared nearly two weeks ago from a village of Skardu in Gilgit-Baltistan. Niaz Ali and Muhammad Habib, students of class 12 at Government Degree College Skardu, went missing on January 22. “My son had gone to a nearby mosque to offer prayers after having his lunch that day,” Mohsin Ali,…

Communist party bans believers in province of ‘China’s Jerusalem’ : by Jonathan Kaiman in The Guardian

Beijing: Officials in Zhejiang province, south-east China, will reinforce a ban on admitting new Communist party members who practise religion, suggesting that a protracted crackdown on Christianity in the province will continue. Last year, Zhejiang officials cracked down on churches Wenzhou, often called “China’s Jerusalem” for its reputation as a religious stronghold and where about an eighth of 8 million residents are Christian, according to state media. Government-backed demolition crews forced hundreds of churches to…