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Posts published in “Day: November 17, 2015

Six injured in rocket attack near Pak-Iran border

By Behram Baloch in Dawn, Nov 17, 2015 GWADAR: Six people were injured when one of three rockets fired from nearby mountains hit a house in Mand Suro town near the Pak-Iran border in the Kech district on Monday. One of the rockets hit an office of Pakistan Customs near the border, leaving its building slightly damaged. However, no one was injured. The third rocket exploded in an open area near a camp of Frontier…

CPEC to cause unemployment in Gilgit-Baltistan

By Peer Muhammad in The Express Tribune, November 17th, 2015. ISLAMABAD: The much-publicised China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) may benefit many, but it will render more than 10,000 people of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) jobless once the existing dry port is relocated from Sost in G-B to Havelian in Hazara division of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. There is no industry in the whole of G-B and more than 10,000 people are associated with the Sost dry port including businessmen, transporters, hoteliers…

Front-Page Warning for China’s Party Cadres: Buy the Paper, or Else

By 0wen Guo in The Wall St Journal, NOV 13, 2015 AT 6:32 AM On top of all the countless misdeeds that could hurt the prospects of a Communist Party official in China under President Xi Jinping, a new one has emerged: failure to subscribe to the right newspapers. In a stern warning, Harbin Daily, the party newspaper of a city in northeast China, called on cadres to prop up subscriptions. Such appeals are part…