GB govt revises assistance package for heirs of deceased employees
Special Correspondent GILGIT: The Gilgit-Baltistan government has approved amendments to the Assistance Package policy for its deceased employees, enhancing age
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Poverty of aid: Academics question US, Pakistan’s elites’ development model
The American model for development after World War-II was utterly incongruent with the social, economic, political and institutional ground realities in Pakistan …For this very reason, American and Pakistan’s ruling elites’ solution of throwing money for the alleviation of poverty did not have much success,” Professor Nipa Banerjee, a senior fellow, Faculty of Social Sciences at the School of International Development and Global Studies at Ottawa University, Canada.
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CM Hafeez rejects cut in uplift funds, withdrawal of wheat subsidy
Ali Ahmed Jan & D.W.Baig ISLAMABAD, Oct 3: Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) Hafiz Hafeezur Rehman has expressed serious concerns
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Raja Jalal Maqpoon: another not-so-clean pick of PTI for GB top office
By IKRAM BOKHARI ISLAMABAD, Oct 2: The appointment of Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon as Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) governor is another addition
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Woman from GB awaits relatives at Edhi home
Staff Report Islamabad, Oct 2: A woman from Gilgit-Baltistan is waiting for relatives at Edhi Home, H-8 Sector, for four days.
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Plan afoot to tame three flooding rivers thru cascading
Herald Report Islamabad: Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) government is working on a proposal to control land erosion in three towns by cascading
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Daring death on the remote Shimshal road
AFP This thoroughfare is the only one connecting the 2,400 residents of the village of Shimshal to the outside world.
Read MoreLiving in a polarised world
By Zameer Abbas Although divisions among the world’s population along class, income group, culture, race, religion, language, region, sect, political
Read MoreThinking in the age of unthought-I
Aziz Ali Dad In the world of ideas, thinking has a pivotal position because it is deemed to be the
Read MorePolio team attacker remanded to Ghizer police for 3 days
Fida Ali Shah & Qasim Shah An attack on a polio vaccination team in the Ghizer District of Gilgit-Baltistan has
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Chief Court suspends operation of ATA’s 4th Schedule in GB, puts federal, regional govts on notice
HAH Special Islamabad Political and social activists have won a reprieve from the Gilgit-Baltistan High Court which has suspended the
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President Rahmon opens campus of first regional varsity in Tajikistan
News Desk In what a historic milestone, President Emomali Rahmon Friday (Sept 14) inaugurated the campus of University of
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Three cops killed, two injured in terrorist attack on police checkpost in Gilgit
HAH Report GILGIT Three police personnel were killed and two others injured in yet another brazen terrorist attack on a checkpoint,
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A dam, but no plan
By Catriona Luke Once again the Diamer-Bhasha dam, 40 kilometers downstream of Chilas, is on the agenda for development. It
Read MoreUN rights watchdog for an end to misuse of ATA against political activists in GB
HAH Special Islamabad: Amid strong protests from the indigenous people over the much-touted Gilgit-Baltistan Order 2018 that was unveiled by former
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