by Ansar Abbasi in The News, Apr 15, 2015 ISLAMABAD: In the backdrop of the arrest of Moazam Ali Khan, considered to be the most critical link in Dr Imran Farooq murder case, Pakistan and UK are discussing some extraordinary cooperation to get to the person who ordered the killing of the MQM leader. In a meeting held on Tuesday Interior minister Ch Nisar Ali Khan and the British high commissioner Philip Barton the non-existence…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Tuesday slammed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for announcing a development package for Gilgit-Baltistan ahead of the local government elections, terming the act a form of ‘pre-poll rigging’. On the social media, Imran criticised the prime minister, who announced multi-billion uplift schemes in the region during his public meeting there. Imran termed the announcement ‘brazen poll rigging’, saying it was ‘absolutely unacceptable’. The PTI chief emphasised that the…
GILGIT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif lashed out at the leadership of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Tuesday for ‘using abusive language’ against political opponents and said that he believed in politics of principles and decency and never resorted to ‘container-style mudslinging’. He was addressing a public meeting which many said marked the launch of his party’s election campaign in the region. He said his government would develop Gilgit-Baltistan and take it to the level of other parts…
Islamabad: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has said that Gilgit-Baltistan will be brought at par with developed parts of the country. He was presiding over a meeting of Gilgit-Baltistan Council in Gilgit today. The Prime Minister directed the concerned authorities, to spend development funds in transparent manner. He said corruption will not be tolerated in any circumstance. Nawaz Sharif said, tourism will be promoted in Gilgit-Baltistan and mineral resources will be exploited for the development of…
By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, April 15th, 2015. GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Council budget worth Rs780 million for the fiscal year 2014-15—ending in roughly two months—was passed on Tuesday in a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, said officials. This was stated by G-B Council member Amjad Hussain who also attended the meeting in Gilgit. Besides the prime minister, the meeting was attended by six members of the National Assembly including Captain…
GILGIT: As the highly-lucrative trophy hunting season continues in Gilgit-Baltistan, police arrested a man for illegally shooting an ibex. Noor Khan hunted an ibex measuring 25 inches on the horn on Monday in Bar Valley of Hunza-Nagar district, a resident told The Express Tribune on Tuesday. According to another resident, community representatives informed wildlife officials and police about the unlicensed hunting. “They raided his house on Tuesday morning and arrested him,” he said. “His gun…
An unusual and highly publicized visit to northeastern China by Premier Li Keqiang was more than just a sop to a region hard-hit by a slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy. The trip, which took place last week and was widely covered in the Communist Party media, was a signal that economic anxieties have started to occupy a more central place in the party’s thinking about reform. While concerns about the economy are by no…
Decades of rapid economic modernization has delivered prosperity to millions in China. It may also have sharpened the ideological divide between liberals and conservatives. A new study by U.S.-based researchers finds that China has its own version of the U.S.’s red state-blue state divide between Republicans and Democrats. The more prosperous regions tend to be more ideologically liberal than those from impoverished rural provinces, while richer and better-educated individuals were also less likely to express…