A survey says that Gilgit-Baltistan is gifted with all types of natural resources. Its land is laden with numerous minerals including gold, silver, copper, zinc, granite, marble, uranium and what not. It is said that world’s biggest reserves of gold are also found here. However, we see today that despite all these resources and God-gifted assets, the region is still remains plague with poverty, unemployment and resultant deprivation and a sense of alienation amongst the…
Posts published in July 2009
By Irfan Shahzad The deadly unprecedented riots in, Urumqi, capital of China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region come at a very peculiar time. There is enough evidence to say that the riots were certainly not a result simply of what can be termed as a quite controllable dispute between the co-workers in a toy factory. The events of last few weeks in the countries bordering Xinjiang, seemingly well choreographed, clearly appear linked with what happened this…
By Huma Yusuf RUSSIA may have dismissed the recent violence in China’s western Xinjiang province as an ‘internal matter’, but the ethnic clashes between Uighurs and Han Chinese could have a long-term effect on Sino-Pakistan relations. It may seem as if a showdown between the minority Turkic-speaking Muslims and Han migrants to the province has little to do with Pakistan. But the manner in which these ethnic tensions play out in the coming months could…
GILGIT, July 12: Two prisoners escaped from jail here on Sunday. According to police, cases against the accused were under-trial in various courts. Police identified them as Sajid and Nasir. Meanwhile, the courts in Gilgit-Baltistan were closed for summer vacation, officials said. The courts usually remain closed from July 12 and resume work on August 1 every year, they added. However, a judge has also been appointed to dispose off urgent cases. <!– /* Style…
BEIJING – Three civilians were killed in rioting that struck the regional capital of China’s far west Xinjiang region on Sunday. The dead were “three ordinary people of the Han ethnic group,” killed in rioting in Urumqi that witnesses and other sources have said involved members of the Uighur ethnic minority. More than 20 others were injured in the incident and many motor vehicles were burned.
LAHORE, July 4: Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf Chairman Imran Khan says mid-term elections are required for solving the problems being faced by the country. After a meeting with Dr Raghib Naeemi at Jamia Naeemia and visiting Mansoora for condoling the death of former Jamaat-i-Islami amir Mian Tufail, he said conditions in the country had not changed after the elections proving that the Tehrik’s decision to boycott the same was right. He said the country was moving towards…
Ten years ago, the fierce skirmish over Kargil, the strategically important piece of territory disputed between India and Pakistan came to an end. The war, which started as the Pakistan Army came close to cutting off key routes in Kashmir, quickly turned as India responded with unexpected force. The crisis between the two nuclear-armed nations brought on the spectre of the possible use of such weapons or of still further acceleration in the fighting to…