Gilgit (C.R Akbar Shah): Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) elected Sadia Danish as its Deputy Speaker unopposed. Sadia Danish contested the election deputy speaker on behalf of People’s Party and Forward Block. The Hamkhayal (like-minded) group boycotted the session and did not submit papers to participate in the election. It is pertinent to note that in…
Gilgit (C.R Akbar Shah): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) terminates the basic party membership of its former finance minister Javed Ali Manwa over his statement in local media. According to a notification issued by the party’s central leadership, Javed Ali Manwa’s membership has been terminated as he had expressed dissociation with the party and its chairman Imran…
Gilgit (Monitoring Desk): While giving an interview with a private TV channel, the newly elected chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Haji Gulbar Khan said he would meet the prime minister to secure a mega package for the development of Gilgit-Baltistan. He said that special attention will be given to the development of the tourism sector…
Gilgit (C.R Akbar Shah): The post-Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan election has unleashed a scramble for ministries and key positions in the G-B government. Assembly members of the forward block and different political parties eye on important ministries after they helped Haji Gulbar Khan become the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B). Haji Gulbar Khan has been elected…
Gilgit (C.R Akbar Shah): Who will be the new chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan? The decision will be made today on Thursday. The Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly (GBLA) will vote for its new leader today Thursday. The slot of the chief minister (PM) remains vacant since the Chief Court G-B disqualified Khalid Khursheed Khan as PM in…
Gilgit (Bureau report): Speaker Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Legislative Assembly Syed Amjad Ali Zaidi submitted his resignation to Governor G-B on Wednesday after two and half years since the current assembly was formed after the 2020 election. Pakistan Tehreek Insaf G-B has nominated the Deputy GBLA Speaker Nazir Ahmad Advocate as the new speaker. The resignation was…
Gilgit (Bureau Report): The ruling party Pakistan Tehreek Insaf’s members submit a no-confidence motion to the Assembly secretariat against speaker G-B Assembly Amjad Zaidi on Tuesday. The move came after the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Khalid Khurshid failed to secure the resignation of Amjad Zaidi from his position as Speaker Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly. Signed…
Gilgit (PR): Chaired by Chairman Standing Committee Muhammad Ayub, an emergency joint meeting of Gilgit-Baltistan Council members took place in Gilgit City on Sunday. Participants of the meeting included the chairman Public Accounts Committee Iqbal Naseer, Sheikh Ahmad Ali Noori, Hashmat Ullah, Abdul Rahman, and Syed Shabih-Al-Hussain. The council members of the Gilgit-Baltistan Council expressed…
Gilgit (PR): In a statement issued to the media on Monday, the leader of Pakistan People’s Party and member Gilgit-Baltistan (G-B) Assembly Ghulam Shahzad Agha has said that after the approving the increase in wheat price, talking about the all-party conference is just an act of hoodwinking the people. He has said that wheat is…
Gilgit (Staff reporter): Chief Minister and President PTI Gilgit-Baltistan recieved a warm welcome upon his arrival in Gilgit from Islamabad. A large number of PTI workers under the leadership of President Insaf Youth Wing G-B Atiq Pirzada warmly welcomed Chief Minister Khalid Khurshid at Shahrah Quaid-e-Azam near Public Chowk Jutial. PTI workers chanted slogans in…