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Posts published in April 2015

Mehsud group commanders among six terrorists killed in Karachi encounter

KARACHI: Police claimed to have killed six alleged terrorists, including two commanders of a banned outfit Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) Hakim Mahsud group, in an encounter in the Saadi Town area here on Saturday. SSP Malir Rao Anwaar said on receiving intelligence information, police conducted a raid in Ayub Goth in the Saadi Town area, where terrorists of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) opened fire on the police, which returned the fire , killing six terrorists,…

Missile planted near checkpost defused: report in Dawn, April 19th, 2015

KHAR: The Levies force on Saturday foiled a sabotage bid and defused a missile planted near their checkpost in Mamond tehsil here on Saturday. A local administration official said that the Levies personnel spotted the missile planted along the boundary wall of the checkpost in Omari area. He said that a Levies team along with bomb disposal squad personnel reached the spot and defused the missile. According to the official, at least seven personnel of…

G-B legislative assembly: JI to contest elections from 10 constituencies

GILGIT: Jamaat-e-Islami has announced the party will contest the Gilgit-Baltistan legislative assembly elections from 10 constituencies out of 24. “We have decided to field candidates in 10 constituencies of G-B,” said a senior JI leader, Advocate Noorul Bari, during a news conference at Gilgit Press Club on Saturday. On Friday, the G-B Council notified June 8 as the date for election as was proposed by the regional government. However, the chief election office said it…

PM okay GB polls on June 8: Report in the Nation,Apr 19, 2015

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif has approved a summary of the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan for holding of elections to the GB Legislative Assembly on June 8, 2015. The summary for polling on June 8 was sent by Federal Minister and Governor Gilgit-Baltistan Birjees Tahir. These will be the second elections after the area had been given Provincial status. First elections for the provincial legislative assembly were held in November, 2009.…

Pakistan, UK mull over extraordinary cooperation in Imran Farooq murder case

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…

Imran terms PM’s GB package pre-poll rigging

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…

PM castigates ‘container-style mudslinging’: by JAMIL NAGRI in Dawn, April 15th, 2015

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…

Gilgit-Baltistan will be brought at par with developed parts of Pakistan: PM : report in the Nation

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…

Rs780 million allocated for G-B Council’s 2014-15 budget

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…

Man arrested for illegally hunting in Gilgit-Baltistan

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…

The Chinese Premier’s Northern Exposure : By Russell Leigh Moses in Wall St Journal, Apr 14, 2015

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…