ISLAMABAD, Feb 9: City police mounted intelligence and vigilance around the Kashmir House to arrest the people, including two ministers of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, nominated in a murder case, sources told Dawn. According to the sources, a team of police officials had been deployed around the house and checkposts also established to arrest the accused the moment they would come out from the building. However, chance of their presence there is meagre, the sources…
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GILGIT, Feb 8: The government of Gilgit-Baltistan was yet to get Rs5 billion pledged by the centre to run its affairs following promulgation of the Empowerment and Self-Governance Order, 2009, officials said. A senior administration official told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the amount was part of a transition plan so that the new order could be implemented in letter and spirit. He added, the funds were meant to run the affairs of Governor,…
By Zulfiqar Ali Khan HUNZA, Feb 8: The main bridge on Karakoram Highway (KKH) linking Pakistan and China near Gulmit and Shishkat villages, would submerge within 24 days in the lake formed on Hunza River due to the blockade of the river, said an official of the Frontier Works Organisation. Naseem Hassan, spokesman for the FWO, in a briefing to Gilgit-Baltistan Legislativ Assembly Speaker Wazir Baig and Chief Secretary Babar Yaqub Fateh Muhammad at the…
ISLAMABAD: A leader of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Azad Kashmir, was killed at a polling station at the FG Model School in F-6/2 during the by-elections on a vacant seat of legislative assembly when activists of a rival political party opened fire on their opponents on Sunday evening, police said. The victim, Captain (retd) Tariq Mehmood, son of Abdul Aziz, of Protha, Khoi Ratta, Azad Kashmir, was the administration officer of the Jammu Kashmir…
By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD: The filling of Mangla Dam’s additional 2.33 MAF (million acre feet) storage capacity built at a cost of more than Rs90 billion and construction of cheap hydropower projects of about 4,500MW are in jeopardy because of non-implementation of the dam’s up-raising agreement and three provinces’ opposition to allocation of water for Azad Kashmir. Background discussions with government officials and documents available with Dawn suggest that the controversy has resulted in cancellation…
The walkout by two ministers from the Balochistan Assembly session on Monday in protest against the killing of two Baloch students at a protest rally in Khuzdar last week and condemnation of the killings by senators of both the treasury and opposition benches once again focuses minds on the plight of the Baloch. When the PPP government presented a package for Balochistan, a province that has been fighting for its rights since the inception of…
By Saleem Shahid and Amanullah Kasi QUETTA: Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has accused the Frontier Corps of running a parallel government in Balochistan. In a statement issued here on Wednesday, the chief minister said that FC’s attitude had harmed the ongoing reconciliation process and, as a result, the situation had worsened. “The FC has established a government paralled to the provincial government,” he said. He urged the federal government to direct law-enforcement agencies in…
ISLAMABAD, Jan 10: Leaders of various political parties and other stakeholders from Azad Kashmir on the platform of the All Parties National Alliance (APNA) on Sunday termed the reforms package for Gilgit-Baltistan as insufficient and tantamount to “compromise on Kashmir”. In a meeting held here at the National Press Club (NPC), the APNA, which included the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), Jammu Kashmir People’s National Party, Jammu Kashmir Liberation League and Jamaat-i-Islami, called upon the…
The Dawn, Jan 1 GILGIT, Dec 31: Speaker Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) Wazir Baig has urged people to visit government offices without any hesitation for resolution of their problems as “officials are public servants not rulers”. Addressing a gathering on environment, organised by Gojal Rural Support Organisation, he said “conspiracies are afloat to steal treasures underneath the surface of Gilgit-Baltistan as the black mountains are full of natural resources”. Speaker Baig said that development was…
GILGIT, Dec 30: The Khunjerab border, which links Pakistan with neighbouring China, is closed on Thursday. Due to heavy snowfall, the border would remain closed for four months. Officials say that it would reopen in May. “The border is closed due to heavy snowfall from Jan 1 to May 1 every year. However, postal services vehicles would be allowed in between the two countries,” an official said. http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/national/khunjerab-border-closes-today-129
By Maqbool Malik Submitted in The Nation, Dec 31 ISLAMABAD – Naheed Khan, former MNA and political secretary to the assassinated PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, is unlikely to accept party offer for the slot of the first governor of Gilgit-Baltistan. “We don’t need any office. What we expect from the party leadership is to consider our proposals seriously which we have floated for the betterment of the party,” Senator Dr Safdar Abbasi, husband of Naheed…