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 i…
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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 insti…
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 expr…
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 anot…
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 day…
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 tow…
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. The je…
Living in a polarised world
By Zameer Abbas Although divisions among the world’s population along class, income group, culture, race, religion, language…
Thinking 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 locus from which ideas em…
Polio 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 set an a…
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 susp…
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 Universit…
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 chec…
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 …
UN 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 tha…
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