MUZAFFARABAD: Brother of a minister in Azad Jammu and Kashmir allegedly shot and injured his political rival in Samhani area’s main bazaar and escaped in an official vehicle. According to the police, Chaudhry Mazhar Iqbal, brother of AJK Minister for Revenue, Custodian and Stamps Chaudhry Ali Shan Soni opened fire on Muslim Conference worker Raja Suhaib Habib in the main market of Choki Samhani and escaped in an official vehicle. Police have registered the…
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By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, November 11th, 2014. The Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) legislative assembly on Monday unanimously passed a resolution demanding diplomatic passports for lawmakers. The resolution was read out by treasury bench lawmaker Abdul Hameed during the first day of the current session chaired by speaker Wazir Baig. “The speaker, deputy speaker and others should be given diplomatic passports according to their designations,” stated the resolution as the house unanimously endorsed the…
GILGT: The Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly Deputy Speaker Jamil Ahmed has accused Islamabad of not taking on board the people of the region regarding construction of the Pak-China Economic Corridor through the Karakoram Highway. Speaking during the question hour session of the house on Monday, he alleged that the multi-billion dollar project was being planned without taking GB people into confidence. He lamented that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his recent visit to China signed…
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is travelling abroad in search of solutions to problems at home. He will be acutely aware that one of the central reasons for the rout of the PPP government in the last election was its failure to end — or even mitigate — load-shedding. It was lights out for the PPP and the prime minister will be wanting to avoid any accusations that his government is equally incompetent as its predecessor,…
The writer is a freelance contributor. Relations between Pakistan and China reached new heights with 19 agreements and MOUs signed between the two countries in Beijing. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was visiting China on the invitation of the Chinese government to participate in a dialogue on ‘Strengthening Connectivity And Partnership’. The agreements mainly relate to power-generation projects and infrastructure-building under the Pak-China Economic Corridor and are expected to attract a total investment of $42 billion.…
A Chinese textile producer that backed out of a deal to acquire a Pakistani company last month said business reasons sank the transaction. The statement from Shandong Ruyi Science & Technology Group Co. follows a Wall Street Journal article that quoted a Pakistani executive as saying a lack of bank credit hit the deal. In the statement on its website, Ruyi said it backed out of the $62 million deal to take majority…