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HAH Correspondent GILGIT: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has filed separate references against the officials of Gilgit-Baltistan Forest Department for violating the timber policy and inflicting Rs156 million losses to the national kitty. The bureau’s spokesperson stated that NAB Rawalpindi’s sub-office in Gilgit has filed the references in the accountability court of the GB against the former Gilgit conservator Muhammad Ismail Zafar, …

By Hussain Ahmad Siddiqui It is hard to believe, but it is a reality that, in spite of being rich in water resources and having tremendous potential of developing hydropower generation, Gilgit-Baltistan with a population of about 2 million, has been experiencing worst kind of power outages like any other part of Pakistan. The residents, primarily the households, brace with …

After a strenuous hike that lasted for an hour, I came to a grinding halt. I had only covered a 1.5km distance. With the sun out in full blazing glory and the treeless plateau of Deosai lending no place to hide, the weight on my back was bearing down hard. It was impossible to keep pace with the occasional cloud …

Sectarian differences were politicised in Gilgit-Baltistan for the first time in the election of the erstwhile Northern Areas Council in 1988. The election in 1988 in the constituency of Gilgit-1 was contested between Wajahat Hassan Khan and Sumbul Shah. The former was a Shia and son of Colonel Mirza Hassan Khan – one of the heroes of the war for …