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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 ...

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 ...

Accuses Pakistan of shedding crocodiles tears in the name of human rights Srinagar: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday said Pakistan is “committing atrocities” against people in Pakistan administered Kashmir (Pak) and will have to bear its consequences.Hinting at retrieving Pak, he said the goal of overall development in ...

Gilgit Baltistan , May 12 (ANI): Pakistan is surreptitiously leasing out the Upper Hunza Valley to China in the near future to ease its mounting debt burden from the Chinese investment in the now increasingly burdensome China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project. The move, which is likely to allow ...

Gilgit Baltistan , May 1 (ANI): As China continues to advance its hefty projects in Gilgit-Baltistan, regional experts have contended that China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is only advancing Chinese interests in the region and alienated the people of illegal occupied region. The CPEC has come under the scanner since ...

Ghizer: Unprecedented inflation and a sharp uptick in the unemployment rate in the illegally occupied Gilgit Baltistan have triggered massive protests across different districts of the region. Hundreds of people took to the streets of Ghizer district to demonstrate against the government for their false promises made during the ...

Islamabad: Pakistan government on Wednesday decided to extend the Western Route of China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Gilgit via Swat, Chitral and Shandur.With the addition of Gilgit-Shandur, Shandur-Chitral and Swat motorway, western corridor would be 1,617 km, reported Pakistan Today.The meeting to extend the route was chaired by ...