With increase in the prices of petroleum products, food items and other life essentials have started to be sold on prices suited to the shopkeepers.
Gilgit (court reporter): According to notification number, 008/2023 issued by the office of Secretary General High Court Bar Imtiaz Hussain Advocate, lawyers of Gilgit-Baltistan will go to Islam on a study tour in February. The tour has been arranged for one week. Food and accommodation along with other facilities will be provided to the lawyers…
Gilgit (Akbar Shah): Secretary, Water and Power Department G-B, Zafar Waqar Taj dismissed three employees including a sub-engineer and suspended two employees for negligence in professional duties. According to sources privy to this development in G-B PWD, the dismissed employees were found to have committed gross professional negligence in the execution of their work and…
Gilgit (Correspondent): Due to the non-cooperation of the Gilgit-Baltistan government and the provincial administration, Gilgit-Baltistan Rural Support Program (GBRSP) has stopped receiving funds. The Chief Minister and the Chief Secretary also have become helpless in front of the stubbornness of a senior bureaucrat. Fifty percent of the regular budget for the financial year 2022-23 could…
Gilgit (correspondent): Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid has said that the imported government at center has made a cut in the development budget of Gilgit-Baltistan. Now it is delaying the releases in the name of the difficult economic conditions of the country. Meanwhile, it is distributing billions of rupees as political bribe to its MNAs. Chief…
Gilgit (correspondent): Life in Gilgit-Baltistan has been paralyzed as the region faces 22 hours load shedding in freezing cold. The people and business community have taken to roads in different places places of Gilgit city to protest government’s in inability to address power crisis. Power crisis has impacted everyone right from housewives, entrepreneurs, school children…
Gilgit (Correspondent): While talking Himalayan Today on Wednesday, Inspector General Police Gilgit-Baltistan Mohammad Saeed Wazir has said that 816 soldiers of G-B Scouts along with the police and private personnel are deployed to protect the Chinese engineers working in Gilgit-Baltistan. IGP G-B said soon a counter-terrorism department will be established in Gilgit-Baltistan as well which…
Gilgit (Correspondent): According to reliable sources, instructions have been issued to tighten the security of Chinese citizens working on various projects in Gilgit-Baltistan. The source said that any mishap in the security may force Chinese working in G-B to abandon the projects and leave. Hence, it is imperative to increase their security as much as…
Gilgit (correspondent): A grand Shia gathering in Markazi Imamia masjid Gilgit warned the administration to avoid confiscating lands in G-B in the name of Khalisa sarkar. The demand was made in a resolution unanimously passed in a gathering at Markazi Imamia masjid Gilgit in connection with the 18th death anniversary of Shia cleric Agha Ziauddin…
Gilgit (PR): In a statement issued to the media, the president of the Trade Union of Gilgit-Baltistan Haji Ghulam Hussain Malik, and the secretary general of Gilgit Central Association of Registered Tradesmen Momi Mughal have expressed their doubts over the distribution of eco-friendly shopping bags by the administration. According to the statement, they have got…