By Zulfiqar Ali Khan in The Dawn, Jan 7 HUNZA: After the devastating landslide, scarcity of food, medicines and fuel is becoming a real threat for the lives of the 22,000 inhabitants of Gojal, the largest tehsil of Hunza-Nagar district in Gilgit-Baltistan. According to reports, shops, civil supply depots and utility stores in the valley have finished their stocks and cannot bring in fresh supplies due to blockade of the Karakoram Highway (KKH). People of…
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By Maqbool Malik ISLAMABAD – High command of the ruling PPP is in a fix in finding a suitable female candidate for appointment as first governor of Gilgit-Baltistan, sources informed TheNation on Monday. The sources disclosed that PPP leadership has interviewed a few women members of the newly elected Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly but none of them could qualify the set out criteria for the gubernatorial slot. The sources were of the view that this has forced…
DHAKA, Jan 4: All the Islamic political parties of Bangladesh should drop the name of Islam from their name and should stop using religion during campaigning, Law Minister Ahmad Shafique said on Monday. He said this following a Supreme Court ruling on Sunday, which upheld a 2005 ruling by the high court throwing out the fifth amendment of the constitution, which had allowed religion-based politics to flourish in the country since the late 1970s. “All…
The Dawn, Jan 1 RAWALPINDI, Dec 31: A United States-operated training facility for Pakistani security forces at the Police College Sihala has been closed for being vulnerable to terrorist attacks, a senior police officer told Dawn. College commandant Nasir Khan Durrani confirmed the closure, saying: “Yes, I have been verbally informed by the interior ministry about it.” American instructors had started training Pakistani police in counter-terrorism techniques at the facility in 2003. The presence of…
By Baqir Sajjad Syed in The Dawn, Jan 1 ISLAMABAD: Weeks after denying that Pakistan had an extradition treaty with the United States, the government said on Thursday that the two countries had an accord for return of fugitives as per a 1973 notification. “We have an extradition treaty with the US,” Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit said at a media briefing. The US-Pakistan accord has roots in a US-UK treaty of 1932, which was…
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…
By Khawar Ghumman in the Dawn, Dec 31 ISLAMABAD, Dec 30: The newly-elected chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) has a unique privilege to have a house without an opposition leader. To the dismay of the National Assembly Standing Committee on Kashmir Affairs and Northern Areas, it was informed on Wednesday that under the current rules, there was no provision of opposition leader in the house. When inquired, Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad informed…
MUZAFFARABAD- At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in a suicide bombing that ripped through an Imambargah in ‘Azad’ Kashmir’s main city on Sunday. The suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a Muharram procession in Muzaffarabad. “When the volunteers spotted the suicide bomber and challenged him, he blew himself up,” local religious leader Maulvi Kifayat told a private TV channel. Raja Kafil Ahmad, spokesman for the Azad Kashmir government, said 11 people had…
By Tariq Naqash in the Dawn, Dec 27 MUZAFFARABAD, Dec 26: Activists of nationalist Kashmiri groups staged a demonstration here on Saturday to condemn the killing of a teenaged student and alleged rigging in a by-election in Gilgit-Baltistan. They warned the Pakistan People’s Party to desist from installing “puppet regime” in the region. The demonstration, organised by the Kashmir National Party (KNP), National Lawyers Forum (NLF), National Students Federation (NSF) and Balawaristan National Front (BNF),…