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Posts published in “Day: February 28, 2015

Gilgit-Baltistan quagmire: by Tahir Mehdi in Dawn, Feb 28, 2015

The writer works with Punjab Lok Sujag, a research and advocacy group. THE first Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly completed its tenure on Dec 10 last year. The prime minister appointed a caretaker chief minister the same day. The presidential order of 2009 that had instituted a new governance system in this long ignored area did not provide for such appointment, so the order was amended. Since it was an order, the prime minister did not have to…

Two prisoners escape before military trial: by Jamil Nagri in Dawn, Feb 28, 2015

GILGIT: Two high-profile prisoners accused of assassinating Diamer SSP Muhammad Hilal and Col Ghulam Mustafa and Capt Ashfaq Aziz of the army escaped from the district jail here on Friday, while an inmate allegedly involved in the Nanga Parbat massacre of foreign tourists and their guide was killed and another injured. According to a police official, Hazrat Bilal and Dilbar Khan of Diamer were suspectsin the killing of10 foreign tourists and their guide near the…