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The News International (blog)
March 4, 2018
In connection with the World Wildlife Day, the WWF-Pakistan, with support of WWF International and in collaboration with the Gilgit-Baltistan Wildlife and Forest Department, announced the innitivative of piloting Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART), a technology-based framework to controlÃâà...
The News on Sunday
March 4, 2018
The writer's attributing the claim of non-existence of the Silk Road in Gilgit to Dr Herald Hauptmann in an earlier article is totally false as it goes against the very research of Hauptman on Gilgit. Hauptmann in his paper 'Pre-Islamic Heritage in the Northern Areas of Pakistan' shows different streams ofÃâà...
THE WEEK
March 4, 2018
Thirty-six glacial lakes in various valleys of Gilgit-Baltistan have been declared dangerous with seven of them posing a major threat to the people, said a survey by Focus Pakistan, an NGO. After conducting the survey, experts attending a seminar in Islamabad said Gilgit-Baltistan is highly vulnerable toÃâà...
ANI News
March 4, 2018
Gilgit-Baltistan has been facing several environmental threats since the launch of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar infrastructure and development-related project. Cutting of jungles, mountains and increase in heavy vehicular movement in the region poses a serious threat toÃâà...
SAMAA TV News Pakistan (blog)
March 3, 2018
"A westerly wave is affecting [the] western and upper parts of the country and [is] likely to persist over [the] upper parts during [the] next two days," said the daily weather report of the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). There was scattered rain in various cities of Punjab. According to the PMD, theÃâà...
The News International (blog)
March 1, 2018
In 2015, Pakistan signed off the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) framed on the bedrock of human rights, inclusivity and justice including goals focusing on improving healthcare by 2030. ... Gilgit-Baltistan, formerly known as the Northern Areas, is the northernmost administrative territory in Pakistan.
Pakistan Today
February 15, 2018
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Thursday said that the government is committed to the socio-economic empowerment and uplift of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan. Talking to Chief Minister Gilgit Baltistan Hafiz Hafeez-ur-Rehman here at the PM Office, he said China Pakistan EconomicÃâà...
Firstpost
February 5, 2018
Islamabad: India plans to attack installations along the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to sabotage the multi-billion dollar mega project, Pakistan's Interior Ministry has claimed. The Ministry, in a letter to Gilgit-Baltistan's Home Department warned of possible terrorist attacks on the CPEC route,Ãâà...
Eurasia Review
December 31, 1999
Political persecution goes unabated in Gilgit-Baltistan. According to reports, Advocate Ehsan Ali, President of the Gilgit Baltistan Supreme Appellate Court Bar Association and ex-Chairman of Awami Action Committee (AAC) re-shared a photograph from a recent Iranian protests on social media on hisÃâà...
