ISLAMABAD: The Pak-Kuwait additional loan agreement of $32 million for Neelum-Jhelum Hydropower Project was signed here on Thursday. Secretary Economic Affairs Division (EAD), Saleem Sethi and Dy DG Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFED), Hamad Al-Omar signed the agreement on behalf of their respective governments. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar and Kuwait Ambassador Nawaf Abdul Aziz Alenezi witnessed the ceremony. It may be added that Kuwait has already been co-financing this project with an amount…
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By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, February 27th, 2015. GILGIT: A local court in Gilgit on Thursday granted pre-arrest bail to 19 nationalist leaders booked under treason charges a day earlier. Taruf Abbas and Mumtaz Nagri, among others, were granted bail by an additional sessions court in Gilgit after they submitted an appeal through their lawyers Ehsan Ali and Amjad. The nationalist leaders had earlier allegedly spoken against the state for keeping Gilgit-Baltistan deprived…
GILGIT: Although the schedule of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly polls has yet to be announced, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as the PML-N president has formed a 16 members committee for his party`s election campaign. The committee consists of federal ministers and PML-N central leaders. According to political adviser to the PML-N GB Shams Mir, the committee is headed by Maryam Nawaz, daughter of the prime minister, while MNA Hamza Shahbaz, National Assembly deputy speaker Murtaza…