By Shabbir Mir in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2014. GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan government has decided to hold the upcoming elections under the biometric system. The decision comes at a time when allegations of widespread rigging in the 2013 general elections are still making the rounds. And though the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) has ended its sit-in in Islamabad, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is still adamant to somehow uncover poll fraud, which the party claims…
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A NEW study has drawn attention to the accelerating rate of glacial melt in Pakistan’s mountainous north. The problem is grave and has far-reaching ramifications for the country, yet it is as remote from the public mind as the glaciers are from the cities.By itself, the phenomenon is too obscure for most people to grasp. But seen in the context of overall climate change and global warming, it is a reminder that Pakistan is amongst…
Report in The Nation, November 25, 2014 SANGLA HILL: The Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly is going to complete its five-year term on December 12 and may get its first Chief Election Commissioner soon as a summary has been sent to the Prime Minister by ministry of Kashmir Affairs, disclosed Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan Chaudhry Barjees Tahir here the other day. The minister said that the G-B Governor had sent a summary to the…
By Tariq Naqash in Dawn, November 25th , 2014 MUZAFFARABAD: Employees of the University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir (UAJK) took to the streets, here on Monday, to condemn what they alleged shifting of their institution’s funds to other seats of higher learning in the region. They demanded immediate restitution of the funds shifted to the Mirpur University of Science and Technology (MUST), University of Poonch Rawalakot (UPR) and Women University Bagh, beyond their…