HT : he death toll from flash floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rains rose to 250 on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, said sources.
According to details, Mingora’s communication links with other parts are broken after collapse of Mingora Bridge while flood water entered in the area.
Flash floods and building collapses caused by heavy rains, [...]
By Aziz Ali Dad
The region of Gilgit-Baltistan has remained always an anomaly in the political system of Pakistan. There are several factors that contributed to its status being kept in constitutional limbo. Foremost among these is the Kashmir dispute, as well as regional geopolitics at large. Although the region is not a direct party to [...]
By Piyar Ali Sagi (SE HT)
The natural changing is in progress at Hunza, yesterday night a mountain crash by geological happenings at mid night at 12:13 Am at Karim Abad capital of Hunza. The stones rolling downward the karim abad village but the destruction haven’t recorded yet. At early morning on same day the earth [...]
By Naeem Ullah ( Contributor HT)
GILGIT: Chief Minister Gilgit-Baltistan Mehdi Shah said that the degrees of all government officials serving in various departments in Gilgit-Baltistan would be sent for verification.
He, however, played down the idea of verifying G-B legislative assembly members’ degrees saying that they had not contested elections on the basis of their degrees.
Shah [...]
By Karim Imamdad (Editor Hunzatimes,Paris )
The International conference was held on 20th July in Kabul,the negotiations were focused about the problem of peace,security and economical development for the future stability of Afghanistan.The conference was widely participated by the 70 delegates from all over theworld including the Secretary General of UNO, Bi Ki Moon and also [...]
ISLAMABAD, (APP): A high level emergency meeting in the Presidency on Wednesday night considered options available to rehabilitate the Ata Abad Lake in Gilgit-Baltistan and restore the damaged portion of the Karakoram Highway (KKH). The meeting, presided over by President Asif Ali Zardari, decided to resort to controlled blasting to lower the water [...]
LAHORE: Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer gave an award and cash prize to a hotel employee, Essa Khan, for returning fifty thousand dollars to a guest at his hotel in Gilgit.
The Governor held a ceremony at the Governor House on Wednesday, where Chief Minister Gilgit Baltistan Syed Mehdi Shah was also invited.
Taseer appreciated the hotel employee [...]
BY PIYAR ALI SAGI(SE HT)
The internet services disturbed entire the region of Gilgit Baltistan, in the absence of private companies the SCO cannot afford good services to the consumers. The professionals, students and foreign visitors all are disturbed. We have seen many masses visiting net cafes but they cannot deliver good services, so many important [...]
HT:The Council of Common Interest has unanimously approved the construction of Diamer-Bhasha Dam in order to meet a condition set by donors for the release of funds for the project on Sunday. The approval has been granted at CCI’s meeting chaired by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani in Islamabad. The Bhasha Dam project hit [...]
By Ijlal Hussain (Hunzatimes)
HUNZA: The outflow of water from the Ataabad lake is recorded at 17,700 cusecs which marks a four inch decrease in the past 24 hours.
The boat service continues to facilitate the IDPs in northern Hunza but the helicopter service is suspended.
The inflow of water in northern Hunza has reduced due to bad [...]
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