Considering the current government came to power on the back of promises to solve the power crisis that has gripped the country for the last many years, it has been laggardly in getting the Diamer-Bhasha Dam project to the starting line. The project has been dogged by innumerable difficulties from the outset, and although the federal government on March 2 finally approved Rs101 billion for land acquisition, we remain many years away from any watts…
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By Shahbaz Rana in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2015. ISLAMABAD: After months of foot-dragging and delays, the federal government on Monday finally approved Rs101 billion for land acquisition for the construction of Diamer-Bhasha dam as well as the rehabilitation of people who would be displaced, clearing one of the biggest hurdles to completing the $14 billion, 4,500-megawatt hydroelectric power plant, the largest infrastructure project in Pakistan since the construction of the Tarbela dam in…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, March 4th, 2015. GILGIT: In 2013, inmate Oleg Topalov at Matrosskaya Tishina, a maximum-security facility in Moscow, used an innocuous spoon to dig a hole into the ceiling and make his way out. On February 27, 2015, four prisoners attempted to break out of Gilgit Jail, after digging a similar hole—in a wall—before making their ‘great’ escape. As Interim Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan Sher Jehan Mir and other…
GILGIT: Pakistan People`s Party and Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf have decided to launch a protest movement against the appointment of Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Chaudhry Birjis Tahir as the governor of Gilgit-Baltistan. The two political parties are planning to give a call for a complete shutter down in the region and hold protest rallies on March 6, the day when the federal minister is scheduled to visit to the region after assuming charge of…