Gilgit (PR): On Thursday, Deputy Commissioner Skardu Captain (Rtd) Shehryar Shirazi along with District Health Officer Skardu and other government officials visited Bisango Bushu to enquire about the issues faced by people there. On his visit to the area, deputy commisioner Skardu met the elders and notables of Busango Bushu valley. DC Skardu during his…
Islamabad (Monitoring desk): Secretary coordination Pakistan People’s Party, Hunza Ejaz Hussain Gojali criticized the Gilgit-Baltistan government for deleting the Chuporsan Road project. He said putting an end to the project is a big injustice to the people of Gojal in general and Chuporsan valley in particular. He was talking to a private news channel today…
Gilgit (correspondent): Gilgit Police has failed to trace people involved in electricity transformer theft in Gilgit-Baltistan. According to reports, dozens of electricity transformers have been stolen across districts in Gilgit-Baltistan at different times. Tracing and arresting the culprits has become a challenge for the police. The local people have criticized Gilgit police for it’s failure…
Gilgit (PR): In a statement released to the media on Saturday, Tehreek-e-Insaf Parliamentary Secretary and member GB Assembly Dilshad Bano has said that Imran Khan is the most popular leader of Pakistan. Any conspiracy to disqualify will never be successful. In her statement, she has said the people of Pakistan will resist every conspiracy of…
Hunza (PR): In a statement issued to the media, the Natural Resource Management Committee Nasirabad Hunza has accused Chief Minister G-B Khalid Khursheed of cheating people of Nasirabad Hunza in an attempt to bring a week-long sit-in to an end on Karakoram Highway by mid of the current year. According to the statement, the people…
This article talks about the neglected part of socio-psychological rehabilitation of victims of floods and other natural hazards in Gilgit-Baltistan and Pakistan. This year, floods have wreaked havoc across Pakistan. Like the rest of the country, the signs of the recent flood in different parts of Gilgit-Baltistan still remind us of the scenes of the…
Gilgit (C.R. Akbar Shah): Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Khalid Khursheed inaugurated Gilgit-Baltistan’s first software technology park at Chilmisdas on Thursday. Chief Minister Khalid Khursheed visited different departments of the software park. He was briefed about different programs planned to be started at the park. While addressing the inaugural ceremony, CM G-B Khalid Khursheed said his government…
Ghakuch (Akbar Shah): Falling of electric wires from electric poles installed in several places on Ghizer road during bad weather and due to landslides has become a rule rather than an exception. The water and power department has been least interested in taking any precautionary measures despite bringing the issue to its notice several times….
Gilgit (C.R. AKbar Shah): A vehicle carrying local tourists from Swat met a road accident at Babusar on Thursday. According to Rescue 1122, three people were killed whereas 12 got severe injuries in the accident. The dead bodies and injured passengers have been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Chilas. Notably, traffic accidents happen on Babusar…
Eight days long sit-in staged by the people of Nasirabad Hunza on Karakoram Highway finally came to an end on Saturday evening after an agreement was reached between the G-B government and the protesters. The sit-in was staged in favor of two important demands: (a) provision of the mining license to a local mining company…