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PESHAWAR, Dec 3: Six suspects were arrested on Sunday in connection with an attack on a passenger bus in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s Gilgit Baltistan region that killed nine people, including two soldiers, a day earlier, police said.The bus was travelling from Gilgit to Rawalpindi when unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate fire ...

Gilgit Baltistan (PoK), September 13 (ANI): The students of Karakoram International University (KIU) in Gilgit city carried out protests against the administration for an unprecedented fee hike on Wednesday. The poor students of Gilgit Baltistan are unable to pay the excessive increase in the semester fees. The unreasonable raise ...

GILGIT-BALTISTAN: Twitter reportedly blocked Pakistan's official Twitter account in Gilgit-Baltistan and is showing the location of the region in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, Dawn reported.As per the Pakistani English-language newspaper, even after the users turn the location feature on the app, tweets sent from the region ...

By Dr Amjad Ayub MirzaMuzaffarabad , May 11 (ANI): An 'Age of Revolution' is how the period between late 18th to mid-19th centuries is described by sociologists and political scientists as well as political economists. It was a period in modern history when revolutions took place in the Americas ...

CALGARY: Nations must combat and defeat terrorists and their masters and Pakistan is going weaker day by day because she acts like a non-serious child, said United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) spokesperson Sardar Nasir Aziz Khan. The UKPNP spokesperson is currently on a two-week visit to Canada. He ...

Thousands of residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir's (PoK) Gilgit-Baltistan have been protestingthe Pakistani government's use of colonial 'Khalsa Sarkar' laws for land grabs in the region. Accordingto the law, the federal government could claim "ownership of barren or uncultivated land" in Gilgit-Baltistan, even if the local community owned it collectively.During ...

Thousands of residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir’s (PoK) Gilgit-Baltistan have been protesting the Pakistanigovernment’s use of colonial ‘Khalsa Sarkar’ laws for land grabs in the region. According to the law, the federal governmentcould claim “ownership of barren or uncultivated land” in Gilgit-Baltistan, even if the local community owned it collectively.During ...

Gilgit-Baltistan , December 10 (ANI): The occupied region of Gilgit-Baltistan, which has been the victim of exploitation of its legitimate rights, natural resources, and land by successive Pakistani governments over the last decades, is virtually starving and shivering with unbearable cold because of acute shortage of wheat flour and ...

Gilgit Baltistan , December 7 (ANI): Pakistan's continuous efforts to keep the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in progress are making the Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) residents in PoK angry as Pakistan continues to exploit the natural resources. Pakistan Army was recently sent to Gilgit Baltistan under the pretext of protecting locals ...

Gilgit-Baltistan , November 5 (ANI): Protests by flood-affected people in Gilgit-Baltistan continue to escalate as they blamed the authorities for not paying heed to disaster-hit families in the region, according to the vernacular media reports. Amid the lack of aid, the agitators have warned of massive protests and given ...