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The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted intense rainfall activity over north India from July 18-21 and over the west coast till July 23. The IMD said moderate to severe thunderstorms with lightning are very likely at isolated places over Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and east Rajasthan during ...

Gilgit Baltistan , November 26 (ANI): People in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan continue to hold violent protests across the region against Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan government over rigged assembly elections. The protesters burnt tyres and blocked the roads to show their anger and frustration. Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ...

People in Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan continue to hold violent protests across the region against Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan government over rigged assembly elections.The protesters burnt tyres and blocked the roads to show their anger and frustration.Khan’s party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has won a majority of the 23 assembly ...

India on Thursday slammed Pakistan for holding elections in Gilgit-Baltistan, saying it was aimed at hiding Pakistan's illegal occupation of its territory. Ministry of External Affairs Spokesperson Anurag Srivastava asserted that Gilgit-Baltistan was an integral part of India since 1947.Asked at an online briefing about elections held in Gilgit-Baltistan ...

A disputed election in a region of Pakistan bordering China has sparked angry protests, with troops called in to restore order after demonstrators took to the streets and erected barricades in a bid to shut down the regional capital amid claims of vote rigging.The protests in Gilgit-Baltistan – a ...

Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Monday won eight of 23 constituencies and was leading in one seat in the legislative assembly polls in Gilgit-Baltistan, prompting Opposition parties to dub the election as “stolen.” India has slammed Pakistan for its decision to hold elections in Gilgit-Baltistan and ...

London , November 8 (ANI): Reiterating that Gilgit-Baltistan "will always be a part of Jammu and Kashmir", a local political activist has said that the region becoming a "so-called province of Pakistan will not bring development in the region". "The region will never become a part of Pakistan. The ...

Why did Pakistan change Gilgit Baltistan's status? Lt Gen Syed Ata Hasnain (retd) On 1 Nov 2020 Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan announced that his government would give the territory of Gilgit Baltistan provisional provincial status, a far cry from the indifferent status enjoyed over 70 years. Gilgit Baltistan has ...

London/Washington , November 4 (ANI): People across Gilgit-Baltistan are up in arms against Islamabad's decision of integrating the illegally occupied region with the rest of Pakistan. In the run-up to the assembly elections in this so-called autonomous region, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan recently announced that the region will ...

Located at the far north, it is at the intersection between the Himalaya, Karakorum and Hindu Kush mountain ranges. (Representational image)The announcement of grant of status of “provisional provincial status” to Gilgit-Baltistan is follow up of an earlier statement by a Pakistani federal minister to grant the contentious status ...