LAHORE : Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Chairperson Asma Jahangir has asked the government to take notice of the miserable condition of the residents of Attaabad, Gojal Hunza Valley badly hit by landslide on Jan 4.
In a Press conference, Asma Jahangir and Hunza residents demanded of the government to take notice of the [...]
ISLAMABAD(APP): President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday sought a report from Governor Gilgit Baltistan over the relief and rehabilitation measures undertaken for the landslide affectees of Atta Abad in the Hunza valley and steps for the draining of an artificial lake.The massive landslide had hit Hunza District on January 4, [...]
ISLAMABAD: The people of Gilgit-Baltistan are true Pakistanis and they are in favour of getting the status of a province of Pakistan, said the speaker of the area’s legislative assembly Wazir Baig here on Saturday.
Addressing the media in the National Press Club along with Deputy Speaker Jamil Ahmed, Mr Baig said [...]
Lahore (HT) Members of Save Gojal Hunza in Lahore and hunderds of Youth and Professionals belonging to Gilgit Baltistan have demonstrated today infront of Lahore Press today.The Demonstrators demanded the goverment to increase the Ratio work of Uplifing Derbis from the Disaster Area at Attabad Hunza.The protesters demanded that the formation of lake [...]
By Brig Hisamullah Beg Hunzai SI(M)
I am seeking the Government in Gilgit and Baltistan to make a policy decision,meanwhile I have mailed quarries to agencies such as Kuwait Fund, ADB, World Bank.This can have a meaning only if the Government of GB modifies present policy ofallowing “Private Investment with Community involvement limited to [...]
Gilgit: Chief Secretary of Gilgit-Baltistan, Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad has said that 200 tons of food items had been dispatched to Sost boarder for distribution among the affectees of Atta Abad area, Hunza at cheaper rates.
The traders brought the food items from China to supply here so that the people of the affected area could [...]
GILGIT: The government would start motorboat service on Saturday for the cut-off 25,000 people of Gojal, upper Hunza, senior officials said.
They said that 10 motorboats had reached Gilgit, which had been dispatched by the National Disaster Management Authority for transportation of individuals as well as edibles and other essential commodities to facilitate the stranded population [...]
ISLAMABAD: A group of people from Gojal valley gathered outside the Parliament House on Friday and asked the government to pay urgent attention to the worsening situation in the valley where a lake, created by a landslide last month, was endangering the lives and properties of 25,000 inhabitants, besides creating an economic, environmental and humanitarian [...]
By Farhat Ullah Baig ( Editor Hunzatimes )
Back in the ’60s and ’70s, Pakistan and China cooperated to build the Karakoram Highway, or the “Friendship Road”, which is the world’s highest highway, linking Pakistan with the Chinese mainland, traversing the mountains of the Hindukush. Pakistan and China have started a joint [...]
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