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PML-N Gilgit-Baltistan’s  member, legislative assembly, Hafiz Hafiz-ur Rehman has said after coming to power the PPP government ahs started economic murder of the people of the region. He said after taking over the charge of the ministry of Kashmir affairs and northern areas Qamar Zaman Kaira has started using the ministry as his personal fief. He said chief executive Ghazanfar Ali Khan was responsible for the reduction in the budget as he was only concerned…

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…

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.

By Dr. Shabir Choudhry Dr Nazir Gilani is among a few Kashmiris who regularly write on Kashmir and human rights abuse. He at times comes out with new phrases, which provide a new dimension to debates. In response to my article, ‘Another Own Goal’, he made an interesting remark:  ‘India is not an occupier in Kashmir. She is there as the consequence of a provisional agreement with the Government of Kashmir. The jurisprudence of this…

MUZAFFARABAD, June 25: Wildlife officials in Azad Jammu and Kashmir are trying to find out the whereabouts of a ‘near threatened’ species of a python morulus sighted recently near here during the excavation of a tunnel of a power project. “We have come to know from reliable external sources that a python morulus was recently spotted during the excavation of the tunnel of Neelum-Jhelum hydroelectric project but there is no news as to what happened…

If you are worried about shrinking public space for smoking, move over to China. The Communist government in Gongan county in Central China has turned smoker friendly. Just to mop up more revenue. ‘Smoke or face fine’ is the decree to government employees. More than 350 million people smoke in Gongan. One million of them die of smoking-related diseases every year. The ‘puff more’ dictum has something to do with inter- county tax structures. Gongan…

Enemy (Vested) Property Act of Bangladesh is a successor to the Enemy Property Act, 1965 of Pakistan. Before commencement of the Indo-Pak war in 1965, Pakistan declared emergency and promulgated Defence of Pakistan Ordinance on Sep 5, 1965. Under this ordinance, the Pak govt assumed powers to make rules for ensuring security, public safety and defence of Pakistan, and also for securing maintenance of public order. On the same day, the Pak govt framed Defence…